As an actor, father, raconteur, and all-around superhero type I find that my life is sometimes like living on a roller coaster. There are some ups, some downs, but above all everyday is a new adventure.

This was illustrated most recently when I was presented with a wonderful opportunity for a hand job.

Now hand jobs are not my specialty, I typically gravitate towards your more "traditional" jobs. This particular hand job came about quite by accident, and I was honestly quite surprised that it was offered to me in the first place.

Those of you who know me know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, after being a bit apprehensive I quickly warmed up to the idea. This hand job sounded like just the thing I needed to mix things up a bit. You know, "stir the pot" as they say? I realized that if you don't know what you're doing hand jobs can get a bit messy, but I was confident that I could "grope around in the dark" as it were and muddle through just fine.

It's just a matter of being confident in yourself and your ability to get a grip on things.

My excitement grew when I found out that I was potentially in line for another hand job on Friday. Things were really falling into place for me this week!

Then I got the call that I knew in the back of my mind was coming: they wanted to see pictures.

With hand jobs in general appearance is everything, and I am sorry to report that mine was not up to par. I took the pictures that they needed but I knew in my heart of hearts that I was removing myself from consideration for this and future hand jobs. I just hadn't been taking good care of myself!

I suppose I could have tweaked things a bit, used creative lighting, done something to hide my less-than-stellar appearance in the photo, but as a professional I also didn't want to jerk the client around. I'm very careful about safeguarding my reputation.

So I lost this hand job, which is doubly painful because I had even been asked what women I would like to be considered as a partner for this project! My wife didn't qualify for technical reasons, so I had a lot of fun thinking about all of the women that I had worked with in the past, and imagining what working on this hand job with them might be like.

Ah well, that's the way the cookie crumbles I guess. On to the next job! Maybe we can work some hand jobs into Lurker?