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06/21/2010 16:44 #51988

Self Like
Category: unnerd
Ok Peeps,

Who's being selfish when both people love each other as much as any two people could, but one dose or doesn't want something so they part?

I've seen this happen a bunch before. There's…er was, this really cool couple who used to live upstairs from me when I lived in Allentown, that are clearly no longer together. They seemed to be made for one another. He was one of the coolest break dancers I've ever know and she painted everything she ever owned bright pink. I think she still has a few colors in her hair. I've since seen the dude at parties and bars. He often looks rather dejected and kinda alone, but he would always look that way i guess. A bit of a recluse that must have been in heaven to have such an extravert all to him self. So I guess his loneliness is a bit more pronounced of late. When they were dating the girl was faaaat, even if she was stylish. She ran it all off one year and I was like, "Way to go, go for you!" I wondered why anyone could be motivated to get them selves more in shape after they've been in a really long term relationship and got "comfy". Later I saw her with her son and a relatively dis-intersting boyfriend at the Arf Festival and the story just told it self. Made me sad.

Ok there's another account too. A good friend who has what I classify scientifically as a spiny personality. They're good at heart, but you've got to navigate some rather sharp stiff and unyielding aspects before you can enjoy them, found someone who could, but since the girl in the couple wanted a baby eventually (not right away) and he didn't they called it quits and just tried to be friends.

I feel like If you're a man it's in your biology to crave and receive sexual attention that should never cause any further responsibility beyond being the kind of lover your mate expects after having to suffer nocturnal emissions and constant hormonal agitation your whole life since puberty. And if you're a woman your biology entitles you to have something come of all this sex with destructive insensitive brutes and menstrual cycles at some point in your life after having to suffer through it all since you started bleeding weather you were ready or not.

I guess you could view my perspective as a bit jaded or one sided since I have reproduced (albeit not nearly in the most idea situation), but what do you think? I know there are alternatives, but how could anyone watch the love of their lives walk away just because they wanted or didn't want to have a baby, or live in a new town? It's such a cold hard choice, I hope I never have to make it. What choice could cause you to tear your self away from the comfort and security of real love with someone if you ever found it? It's not fun to think of, but if you're brave enough share…

who could say no to a face like this...
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metalpeter - 06/22/10 18:14
I think that love and desire are two different things and they often conflict. If two people are married or in that lifemates type of relationship and one person gets their dream Job, you know that thing they have all ways wanted to do (think the lead in a Broadway play or saving the world or something) Well what if the other person gets their dream Job that thing that they have all ways wanted to be since a kid and one is in NY and one is in LA. How do you pick you can't do you follow love or desire? Oh Yeah and I know nothing about relationships, I'm a bit messed up my self. I wouldn't know how to determine who is the selfish one maybe both people are. I thought that the way a relationship was supposed to work is that you put the happyness /Well being of the other person before your own, or atleast I think that is how it is supposed to be?????????
jason - 06/22/10 09:42
Ok, I'll be brave.

What if you know that in order to be with the love of your life you have to remove yourself from your friends and family, your neighborhood, your job, and nearly every good experience that comes with those things? Could you say goodbye to everything you know to do some reverse Beverly Hillbillies shit?

Tough call. Some things really are deal breakers (kid vs. no kid is one very good example) and it is a shame to see a perfectly good relationship swirl down the shitter. If you are "comfy" and she gets skinny, new haircut, new clothes, starts putting herself together better, you know damn well you are in trouble and she has one foot out the door. That's not being cynical, that's trusting the experience of millions of men who've had it happen to them. But things don't happen in an instant - things like that happen in part because romance takes diligent work, like cultivating a home garden. If you do not care for it, it will die.
vincent - 06/21/10 23:48
I don't know anything about "romantic" relationships as I'm a total failure; SO take everything I write with a grain of salt.

But from my human cynic in my from your description she was just using the guy as a temporary stop to something better. Especially the whole "self improvement" running to lose a ton of weight thing. To be honest when I was dating an overweight woman I always told her 1/2 jokingly (But in all honestly the truth) that if she ever lost weight that the relationship would be over, as the competition would muscle me out literally. Fast forward a few years, I was kind of quasi dating someone who then got the "surgery" she basically forgot who the F I was as she was chasing cool Ambercrombie and hipster boys. In some ways we are always looking for something better men & women alike, but guys always seem to get caught by making it so obvious, i.e. leaving the wife for the secretary.

Sometimes people just settle for what they can get and deal with in a very controlled environment. There may be some physical attraction, but the glue that keeps things together is a bit of a master/servant type of arraignment i.e. staying with someone because they need a cool place to live or health insurance.

The catch is that us men may see it biologically, which in some way is true. The problem is that women add another layer for which most men can only see with infrared vision assistance. Some guys just have it as they just are lucky stumbling around in the dark ;-)

To be honest it's a good thing people have "dealbreakers." It most likely prevents even more misery in the future. But most people seem to jump into things "blinded by love" and then 5-10 years later things go nuclear when they don't see eye to eye on fundamental things like money.

Yea, I think I topped you in being more "Jaded" but for me I just defeated. I realized that I'm pretty much F'd in the realm of "relationships" whatever that entails. For me I just wish I had a switch to turn off my my head to never seek or crave "it" because I would be so much more productive and not miss when I can't have...
paul - 06/21/10 23:04
She is so freakin' cute.
jenks - 06/21/10 16:55
Yuck, I don't know the answer to that, except that it's got to be a heartwrenching situation and I hope I'm never in it. But I think I agree- it seems a little nuts to me to let the love of your life go over one thing. Though kids is a pretty big 'thing'...

But, maybe if you disagree on something that huge, you're not 'soulmates' anyway?

Dunno. Boo.

ps how are you? i miss you!

06/09/2010 11:55 #51834

Keeping the leaves on the right side.
Category: fitness
Hi peep'lz

I've made a lot of strides going to the gym lately. I'm down to 220lbs. which is pretty good for an (e:enknot) but my BMI is still 27.5 which is over weight according to this calculator (http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/). I think that maybe I just have heavy bones, but there's a bone on top of my abs that is kinda flabby that's telling me I might be wrong, so I'm going to pump up the cardio until that goes away. I bought roller blades and my bike is in great working order so if you ever wanna do that kinds stuff shoot me an email (they come to my phone so they're as fast as text messages)

I was going to the gym in the mornings for a while, and it kept me consistent and able to do things at night that were not the gym (I have a social addiction), but I've come to find that saps my ability to do things during the first part of the day which matters a bunch. I can't concentrate at work, and I'm kinda drowsy for the first part of the day no matter how much sleep I got that night. That is just not good. For to many reasons. You people don't pay taxes so state employees can stare sleepily at their computer screens...well not this one at least.

So, I'm moving my work out to night times. I like to work out with people, I feel like you can get more done that way, and I've bumped into more people at night when I go to the gym, so this might actually do us all some good.

Last night I saw my old nerdy co-worker Jake Mabee (pronounced "maybe", yeah I have fun with that) and we did legs and chest and I can still feel a nice dull ache. He taught me how to do dead lifts and my whole self feels chewed on. My other buddy told me that there's a human growth hormone that released when you do your legs that works body wide, and I figured if I'm going to use some growth hormone on anything else I'm going to use it on pecs. I still have the Ren Hoeck dream of having humongus pectoral muscles. I think ladies like em... I do too, make my shirts look better on me and naked time more fun for everyone involved...and I'm trying to get as many people involved as i can at this point in my lame dating life :)

Later peeps.



lilho - 06/09/10 23:40
Too lazy to read the whole post but I would so workout with you if we lived in the same city. Keep up the good work! I need to pump it up too...

06/08/2010 16:02 #51826

Sprint HTC Hero 2.1 update part II
Category: phone
Ok,

So just came back from the sprint store to help my mom with her Samsung Rant which keeps breaking over and over again and I found out that if you downloaded the software for the HTC Hero 200 within the first 3 days you got hosed.

I redownloaded the file and a. it only took a minute or two this time and b. it had a new version number (it's HTC Sprint Hero MR 2.27.651.6.exe now), so if you got yours around then and noticed anything wonky with your phone (slower, battery eating madness, hinky installs and sluggish everything in general) that's prolly why.

I'll update this posting to tell you what's different about the performance. I think it's fishy that there's a newer firmware update that they didn't let anyone know anything about, but I guess if you're that much of an early adopter you'd know something fishy was going on and check your self. For those of you how haven't I guess this blog entry may suffice.

Ooh, on the way to updating I found MyBackup. It's an android app that lest you back up everything on the phone call logs, sms, and mms where the things I was there for, but you can back up much more like apps and system settings and other stuff so you don't have to go re downloading things, which is nice since your google account only remembers apps you paid for when you bought (but not all of them), and some apps can't be re downloaded (iMusic comes to mind).

Ok that was my good dead for the day.

Talk to you later.


enknot - 06/09/10 11:25
Oh geeez.

Ok, after only a few hours of using this build of the OS I love my phone again, even though it's not an EVO. I think unless this crazy throw down with Sprint about my mom's phone goes better than expected I'm going to wait until other EVO level (and better) devices come to Sprint. I bet Motorola is hot on the trail of that EVO with something better. I think the Moto Sprint Droid is a much sterdier device than mine and I'm curious to see what they're going to do to answer to the EVO.

it's as snappy as it used to be, and its got all the new features and the updated OS so it's exactly what I wanted. It even has a few more bells and whistles that it didn't before that are really fun. Terry and Heidi came over last night and I noticed while we were talking that the bell sounds for the text message are perfect. I haven't quite explored the device just yet but I will and I'll make a real post about it.
paul - 06/08/10 21:06
Hope its better. Watching your phone the other day made me tired ;)

06/07/2010 14:58 #51820

Some cuteness for you peepl'z
Category: unnerd
Fern and I bumped into J9 at the Farmers market this weekend.

Found out some interesting stuff from some farmers aaaaand saw some cute babies, even added my own to the mix to make it really cheek pinchy.

Here's the vid I snappped of Fern and J9 pokein' some cute chicks and goslings. Fern and her had a hug fest, which if you've ever met the Fuzzball in person you must know is astounding. J9 was like the only person we saw that Fern ever opened up to like that. Too bad it didn't work out. Oh well... I persist that shyness is a disease and I'm gonna cure her of it (I'm totally kidding. If I were going to be a monster I'd rather be one that could fly and suck blood or howl at the moon or something). Still, it seems like we might be able to be friends by and by, which is great.

I think maybe it was kinda weird how they had these cute little guys in a box next to coolers full of the bodies of their aunts, uncles, and possibly parents, but it's a cute video anyway.

Coming soon to a dinner plate near you*


  • listen very closely to the conversation between the little girl and J9. This lil squishy face is already racially aware at like 3 years old. Otherwise J9 is borderline vegan so that what we're talking about.

Also found out that chemical companies who paid for a study to "determine" if cell phone towers could be the cause of the bee crisis are probably hiding the fact that their company's chemicals are causing the plants to be less nutritious for the bees from a bee keeper.

i wish my phone was faster so I could recored audio of stuff like that at least.
libertad - 06/07/10 21:42
I love black chicks.

06/04/2010 15:10 #51800

Queen of Sorrow
Category: unnerd
So,

I have a friend.

She's really pretty. Olive skin, dark brown hair that flows in locks, eyes like pools of onyx.
She's a trained pianist. Loves great music.
Owns a house in a nice neighborhood. Has a decent job.
Likes to ride bikes. Sounds awesome right?

She's got faults too, but I don't want to point any of that out. Yet....

Ok, so this thing keeps happening to her where she starts dating a guy and not long after they decide to stop seeing her. It's always them that stop dating her... Lame.

I'm a good friend of hers at this point. I dated her before, in the past. And yes, I stopped seeing her too, so um.... here's my question to you (e:peep)'lz of the world.

She sometimes asks me, "Why does this keep happening to me?", and I feel like I must know, having had been a guy who did it and a person who watched it happened over and over, but what do I do?

Should I tell her what I think?
Should I ignore it and hope that someday someone will be a kind enough man to her to help her through this stuff
Really who do I know? Pfft!?

What do you think?



jenks - 06/05/10 16:11
I think I'm with Heidi. If you really are close friends, and you really want to help her- If you actually DO know why guys lose interest, or at least why you did, and it's something silly that she can fix, then maybe tell her that. You know "well, you're totally super awesome, but, well, you know the way you chew with your mouth open? That might kinda turn people off".

but if it's like "well, you're totally super awesome, but your voice is like nails on a blackboard, and, let's face it, you're totally psycho"... that might not go over so well. So in that case, yeah, I'd go with the "you're awesome. Guys are just stupid. You'll find the right guy someday, I know it!"
vincent - 06/05/10 13:59
At first glance without knowing her or a pic, I would lean towards the whole (Guys are just intimidated by your vast accomplishments and just feel inferior to your life which is all put together. How can a guy measure up when you almost have it all. Or at least that was my first impression of her by your description.)

I just don't know really what to tell her as I have only recently gotten my "psychological" spur back but only since Loveline has come back to the local airwaves ;-)

I agree with (e:Tib), post a pic or lead her to this site to at least give it a coffee go of it with some of the (e:peeps) in a dry spell! ;-)

tiburon1724 - 06/05/10 11:41
pic? I'll give it a try reversing her fortunes!
tinypliny - 06/04/10 20:19
My blanket view on this matter: Girls don't want to hear the truth from any former mates. It just does not work out. If you think you are done being her friend, go ahead - spill it all out. Bear in mind that she will never be your friend again. There is no real or fake friendship on this one.

Relationships are the core of what it takes for humans to click. I can bet that she already 100% knows in heart what is exactly wrong. Probably is in some kind of denial. You will not help matters any if you tell the truth. You will just feel remorse and lose her as a friend.

Ignore. There is no point asking her if she can handle it or not. She cannot handle it because she asked you instead of searching herself.
metalpeter - 06/04/10 18:39
I think this is what you should do, and there are some people I would tell to just shut up, and not say anything, but with speaking with you I don't have the right words but you are a very good speaker (At some party I remember you going on about the reasons to get high, and then going right into the reasons not to and it totaly made so much sense).

Ask her do you really want to know what I think and will you be able to handle the answer. Some times people think they want the answer but then can't handle it. If you think she really can handle it then you proced. You say something along the lines of I can't answer why people stop seeing you, I can only tell you what caused it with me. Again you can say how you are being honest and that is what a good friend does. Of course if she thinks that a good friend lies to help the friends feelings than you might get in a bit of trouble. Then go into what caused or why you stoped seeing her.

I see why you are kinda in a tough spot. I think it is worth the chance of losing her as a friend, if what you say will really help her out. But I also don't know what the issue is so I could be wrong there. I think though that you should tell her because she should know and it sounds like no one else is willing to do it......
iriesara - 06/04/10 17:27
You are friends, and she asked YOU for the reasons already mentioned. There could be 2 possibilities. Either she really is interested in knowing and wants to somehow grow from the knowledge. OR, she just wants to be justified in her own self and thinks you give her that justification and reassurance. If the latter is the case, it brings to mind the lyric "don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to". I say be honest (tactfully, obviously) and let the chips fall where they may. This is the exact difference between real friendships and fake ones.
heidi - 06/04/10 16:26
Do you know? Is there something that she does that kinda ends the relationship? I guess it depends on if it's a personality issue or a behavioral issue - kindly pointing out an alienating behavior could be a very good thing. Personality issue - not so easy. Alternately, does she attract guys that are unavailable and/or uncommitted? You're in a very difficult situation.
jason - 06/04/10 15:58
Wow, tough situation. See, if you are honest and she rejects what she hears you're going to be in big trouble. I don't know how many times now I've regretted not saying "There's nothing wrong with you, you're great and they're all fuckheads."