back in the saddle, relationship stuff, a-hole chatter

Tuesday Feb 12th 2008

Yesterday I received my replacement motherboard for my PC. It worked first try (and that’s never happened before); everything works. I was honestly shocked the re-build went so well.

I’m very happy to be back on my core duo with 2GB of RAM compared to the 1.5GHz single core laptop with 1GB of RAM.

The fact of the matter is that my current box is pretty darn speedy and I missed it.

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Yesterday I also spoke on the the phone with a girl I met on craigslist for a few hours. The conversation went okay and all that but I was reminded once again that I babble incessantly (and you thought I babbled on my blog.. HA).

I do give her kudos for actually pointing it out. I do babble.

I know why I do it - it’s to avoid awkward silence. I absolutely cannot stand the sound of no sound when you’re waiting for someone else to speak and… nothing happens. The girl I was speaking with did not have this problem, but I’m just so used to it that I just keep on ramblin’..

I did appreciate she spoke up about it, and hey what can I say.. I’m making an effort to date, talking to girls and making things happen as best I can.

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On ICQ someone from Canada chatted me and this was cool for a few reasons:

She actually spoke English - and well.
She chatted well
She was one of those ICQ users that tried it out again for nostalgia’s sake

About the English thing: Lots of ICQers are Russian or Chinese and speak English poorly, so whenever I get anyone who speaks English natively, that is a good day (heh).

About chatting well: She was “good on the draw” as they say. Fast typer, good response time. Kudos given where kudos due.

About the ICQ nostalgia trip: I’ve encountered a few ICQers who remember when ICQ was the #1 method of instant messaging on the ‘net because there basically wasn’t anything else. I like chatting with people like that.

But the coolest part is that she totally appreciated my humor. I told her about all the non-English folk who use ICQ and how I sometimes have fun with them.

She had a good laugh at the “tips” I told her of, one of which is: If someone starts hitting on her (and it will happen) to say she only has one boob and that she’s saving for an operation to get the other one.

I admit that I am a total asshole on instant messenger - but only when prompted.

If people are civilized to me, I’m civilized to them. But if they “turn on the charm” so-to-speak, what do they expect? Flowers and candy?

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