Second Date A long time ago I dated this girl for three dates. Precisely three dates. It was a setup of a mutual friend and because this mutual friend was actually a pretty good friend of mine I wanted to give this a best effort even though I knew on the first date that it […]
Hallucination Machine
Coffee Shop There’s this really cool coffee shop near my house. I’m almost certain the people that own it, they’re an older couple, almost certain the people that own and don’t make a profit. Judging on how much they charge for coffee and how long people sit there and how much business they do […]
Voices In The Night
Meteor Shower When I was a kid in my friend wanted to stay up late one night to watch the meteor shower. We convinced our parents to let us sleep in our backyard. Of course our parents assured us that we would fall asleep before the meteor shower was expected to show which was at […]
Self Consumption
Cute Girl At Work This girl I used to work with was cute and she was part of the same religion that I participated in. One weekend she and her group were going to a picnic. She invited me to go with her. I figured I could use Jesus to get an in. […]
Post Hypnotic Suggestions
When Blind Dates Were Blind A long time ago I went on a blind date. This was back when blind dates were really blind dates because it was before the Internet and you’re going to blind date because when you friends set you up with somebody and you didn’t actually know what they looked like […]
Broken Brain
College Foolishness When I was in college I had a lot of part-time jobs. Because my university was on the semester system and because I lived in the dorms and because there were several weeks in between semesters I always had quit the job at the end of the semester. I had a lot […]
Origin Stories
So There’s This Lady There’s a woman that I see sometimes at the gym that I go to. She’s very interesting and easy to talk to. The reason that she popped into my field of interest was because she’s always carrying a big book. She doesn’t read a device, she doesn’t read a Kindle, […]
Tai Chi Wizard
Get Out Of The House A long time ago I took this class in tai chi. It was a class that was 24 weeks long and each week we would learn one new movement. By the end of the 24 weeks we had a whole self-contained kind of tai chi structure that we could do […]
Secret Sierra Club
Boy Scout Skills When I was younger I did a lot of rockclimbing. I learned first in Boy Scouts and then when I was in high school I had a coworker at the pizza place that I worked at was a very good rock climber so he would take me rockclimbing on the weekend sometimes. […]
Origin Story Erasure
Dale Carnegie’s Brilliance Before Dale Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People he did an extensive public speaking workshop for many years. He found through this workshop all the techniques and all the details and strategies that he later wrote and How to Win Friends and Influence People. That’s what makes this […]