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Yup, I've got to be up now because I've got some skating to do. Actually, there's lunch, skate sharpening, bank visiting, and people pickuping as well, but the main focus of the day will be skating. I should get ready soon, I have to leave in less than an hour.
Anyway, KGL and Laz both have things up. I agree with Craig, it's one's own walls that prevent them from being happy. I also got some very interesting insight from someone far away about being too nice. I was told that guys who are too nice lose their "boy" status and are labeled as "just friends". I might be inclined to agree. Nice guys finish last right? Well, what are your opinions?
We've already passed by the shortest day of the year, so we can all look ahead to more sunshine for the rest of the year! Too bad it's going to get a LOT colder.. (Whee!)
There is some news I wanted to link up before I go. All of these articles are from the ShackNews. The first is about some dead ringer, the second is about the impending war between Russia and the Salvation Army, and finally, although slapping someone's butt is not polite, you've got to be joking.
Time to get cleaned up.
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I had a good time today. After picking up CJF and going out to lunch we got our skates sharpened, contacted one of CJF's friends, and headed down to the rink at the Civic Centre. Heck, it was free, and I figured that the shelter would shield us partially from the wind (and bitter cold). There was a camera crew out there when we made it to the rink, we weren't sure if they were still filming or not, but after hiding in the corner for several minutes, I got fed up and went around the full length of the rink. Most of the people out there were teenagers, probably out from high school. They tended to go on and off fairly often, so there were breaks where I was the only one on the ice (quite fun actually). Oh yeah, I overheard one on the girls who was skating talk to the reporter, and I think she mentioned something about the bit showing up on the evening news on Channel 6 or 10. I'm not sure which.
We stayed out at the rink for a good two hours before heading in. We walked around around the mall for a little while after that before going back home.
That's about it. I'll see what else is going on in the world today.
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Basically right after I had finished my previous entry, I got a call from Laz. It seems as if he and Werdna had nothing to do that night and was wondering if I was interested in continuing the fight against the Analids.. Heck yeah! The plan then was to go shopping for a little while for last minute Christmas gifts (including finding food) before heading off to Laz's place to finish off the game. Well, I quickly took apart my computer and waited (for a while) before Laz showed up to pick me up. We headed down to Werdna's place to pick him up as well (he gave me some chocolate and maple syrup that he didn't like) and we went shopping.
We wandered around the Town Centre (sound familiar?) before settling on chocolates. Lots of chocolates. We also grabbed some food down in one of the restaurants in the mall (not a good idea, it was expensive and not that great) and headed back to Werdna's place to pick up our hardware. (We left our stuff there so that car peekers wouldn't be tempted to take it from the mini.)
We made it back to Laz's place around nine-thirty and proceeded to set up the LAN. After about half-an-hour, we were off and running around the halls of the Von Braun. We continued where we left off and made good time (we didn't have any crashes) until three hours in when my computer kicked me out of the game while loading up a level. Doh. We tried again. It kicked me out again. We tried loading an earlier level. No dice. I tried loading it myself. Nada. I tried reinstalling the game. Zip. Werdna tried from his computer, and he was able to make it in, sort of. We tried from an even earlier save game (which would put us back to the end of last week's adventure) and it worked! Too bad Werdna overwrote his old save files. What was he thinking? (Even I had backed mine up.) This meant that it was the save files that were corrupted, and since Werdna killed his save files, our games were FUBARed. There was nothing we could do except probably start over again. (I do have one more ace up my sleeve that I haven't tried yet.)
Bah. We ended up playing Counter-Strike for the rest of the night to drown our sorrows, but after a few hours of that, we went into a zombie-like mode where we went through the actions, but couldn't think properly and couldn't come up with any tactics. Staying up until the sun rose probably had something to do with it.
Since I was supposed to go and play hockey that morning at ten, I figured that I should call it a night. We packed up our stuff, and I got dropped off at home around half-past-seven. I went straight to bed.
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Saturday, December 23, 2000 at 15:25:39 (UTC)
I vehemently disagree about "nice guys finishing last". You can be good at empathizing and still retain the masculinity that is so attractive to women. In fact, lots of guys achieve this satori all the time -- even if one or the other element is faked (just ask any girl with an ex)!
The thing to avoid is being a wet noodle: ie indecisive, ambitionless, inarticulate, too accomodating, and generally lacking in self-esteem.
Healthy girls and guys both steer clear of people like that -- at least romantically.
It's basic baboon behaviour, really: one-on-one, be sensitive and nurturing (pick fleas off each other's backs) -- but in public, make a loud noise, challenge all alpha males, and be good at something (hunting, thinking, painting, whatever!).
The above was just an analogy... I hate the field of "evolutionary psychology" and their TLC boosters!
Reg <e-mail>
Wednesday, December 27, 2000 at 05:50:17 (UTC)
Not all girls tend to avoid the type of guys that you've described (I couldn't help but notice that just about all of those comments ended up describing me). Of course, those are probably the ones that prefer to have a pet rather than a companion. It's also stereotypical to think that all nice guys are spineless, but people like that do come out looking "nice" because they can't really rub you the wrong way when you generally don't even notice them.
My "nice guys finish last" comment was a stereotypical comment just from my mouth and not the person who I was talking with. Although I still think that truly nice guys will not take unfair advantage of situations, while not-so-nice guys don't have such scruples. That could lead to situations where the not-so-nice guy could sabotage any attempts of a nice guy at doing things, finding a job, finding a girl, etc.
Now I'm going to get a little off topic, but I hate selling myself. I hate writing resumes and going to interviews where you have to try to impress your potential employers that you're the best thing since sliced bread. (Actually, my last - and only - interview was good. It was very relaxed and I didn't exaggerate.. too much. ;) This is also one of the reasons why I hate studying (apart from the fact that I'm lazy). Why bother studying when you probably won't remember any of it afterwards? You might as well be tested on what you know, and not on what you can cram. That's a great theory, but in practice I still forgot most of the stuff afterwards.
Okay, enough ranting, let's get back on the subject at hand. That person's main point was that by being too nice (like, being a shoulder to cry on, etc.) to someone in a rough spot may label you as "just a friend". What do you think?
Personally, being the victim of such a situation - with someone who I had a big crush on - I can relate. In fact, I don't think if I've ever gotten involved with anyone who I've given a shoulder to cry on, whether I was interested in them or not. Maybe I'm just a freak, but I don't think I'm the only freak.
QYV