A guy can't ask a girl, even one he's friends with, out for an innocent cup of coffee. She'll automatically assume he wants, not a cup of coffee with a friend, but to date her.

Either that or I come across as desperate.

Work has been wearing me down lately. We're finally working toward a real product, instead of demo after demo after demo. That means we have a real product design, and a real release schedule, for the first time in two years. We've even got a QA person to test our software to find the most obvious problems with it. But we're behind in our ( Read more... )

My friend and commiserator in manners of being single males sent me this link on the "ladder theory" of relationships between men and women. On the whole, I find it chauvanistic and bitter, despite the author's responses to such criticisms. But there are a few things that I can't disagree with, particularly given recent events and soul-searching ( Read more... )

Seven hours on the road in one day gives you a lot of time alone with your thoughts.

( “You’re too nice!” )

A post made by greatpenguin has me musing on the nature of love. His post focused on guys falling in love with girls who don't return the feelings. As a Nice Guy, I've been in that situation often enough ( Read more... )

Holy crap. I bought a car ( Read more... )

Last night I met Brian and Adrian for a few drinks. The three of us were to go see In-Flight Safety playing at the Zaphod Beeblebrox. We met early because Brian couldn't come to the show itself; he had to pack for a weekend trip to his parents' to celebrate Chinese New Year. It was good seeing them, as always, but they were both in poor moods, ( Read more... )

I think I'm almost over the cold I caught while I was home, but I still feel pretty... not tired, though I did sleep until 11. Lethargic, more like, and it's not helped at all by Jasmine curled up on my lap and sucking out what little energy I have. I guess it'll be a quiet night in tonight. I may not even stay up to midnight ( Read more... )

Today is my friend Dan's wedding, to his sweet fiancée Natalie. I'm serving as a groomsman at the wedding. I've rented the tux, and I'm polishing up my shoes (third coat of polish so far -- man, does my finger hurt) while I wait for the time to get dressed and ready to go ( Read more... )

I got a call from Adrian tonight as I was having a (late) supper of hamburgers and fresh Ontario peaches'n'cream corn on the cob. As he put it, "we've got three guys and four girls here," and they were going to Caliente, a Latin nightclub, and could I make it there in half an hour?

( Gonna dance the night away )