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December 17, 2008

So at work I've been doing the couch to 5k program. I think I blogged about that last time. A week or so ago I completed it. Now I'm going every week day and ellipting 35 minutes per day and I've added a 5-minute cooldown walk on the treadmill afterwards. Yes, I've decided that ellipting is the verb to use. Deal with it.

I've been catching up on my podcasts. I started listening to The Savage Lovecast and even called in a question to their line. The way it works is you leave a message and they might call you back and/or put it on the podcast. Since I didn't want to sound retarded I wrote it out before calling it in. So here it is:

	hi dan, i was listening to lovecast 93 when you answered a call from a guy who ended up being every girl he knew's platonic boyfriend. I was so happy to hear that call because I have been in a similar situation as that caller and was so relieved to hear your answer. I came up with the same answer, to no longer audition new friends. It was awesome to hear you give that same exact advice. However, I've come to a couple of snags. First, when I describe this idea to my friends (a couple of which I'm stuck in the platonic boyfriend role) I get accused of just looking for pussy. Like i'm just a user. I find it hard to explain what it's like on my end of things. I liken it to the old saying "why buy the cow if you get the milk for free", if these girls want all of this emotional support, then they have to date me. Well, that doesn't convince them. So I'm still called a sex-crazed abuser. I might have to just chalk this up to the same old male/female double standard. Second, I have no idea how to really meet women effectively. Primarily I look on dating websites, send out interesting messages and if I get a reply try to strike up a conversation. So typically this is the "friends first, lovers later" strategy. It hardly ever works and I end up in the platonic boyfriend zone. So on the advice of some friends, I've tried asking these girls out on dates earlier than I normally would, to do the "dating first" thing. Yeah...that doesn't work out well either. They disappear or whatever. I know it's not black and white and that either strategy isn't foolproof, but I was hoping you could provide some pointers for me. How do I make it clear to women that I'm interested in dating and not being merely a friend? And how do I do that without sounding like an asshole?
—Keith

But in other news, I've been playing D&D with some friends for a while, and recently we've started up a weekly board games night. Man I love gaming.

Not to get expectations too high, but I've been in preliminary talks with a lady I met on okcupid. She is pretty cool so far and we've hung out a few times. Still very cautious here, but maybe this could go in a good direction. So far just trying to play it like Fonzie. And what's Fonzie like, Yolanda? He's cool. That's right, Fonzie's cool.

So in the floods of 2008 a shit-ton of Advil was donated to Iowa. Turns out that severe flooding doesn't really cause all that many headaches. There's a bunch of Advil left over so anyone can take it for free. I've grabbed quite a bit and am willing to give it away since it was free. The conditions are that you have to take a full case (2400 pills) since I don't want to dick with dividing up boxes. Let me know.

So a few days ago Dreamhost shat the bed and all my sites went down. They were down for a few days and boy was I pissed. Things seem back up now. I got a $50 credit so it wasn't so bad, but I mean, 2 days of downtime? You've gotta be kidding me.

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