Still a virgin.
This is random, but I'm going to say it anyway. I want a remake of the Odd Couple starring Boogie and Thor. They could live in a log cabin up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and then maybe in the second season they have to move to the Yukon and live in an igloo. I'd definitely watch that.
I'm the father of a 1-year old daughter. That's a pretty big life event.
I'm the father of a 1-year old daughter. That's a pretty big life event.
Going back to school. Got about a year left. Have given up every childish hobby I have other than video games, lost about 10-15 pounds (but still need to lose way more) and in general have been making positive life choices.:rejoice grats my brothers :rejoice
No. Still working not enough hours at these two temp jobs. Still going to interviews and not getting called back.
I haven't gotten fat/chubby or anything, but I've been slacking hard on eating right and working out the past few months. Cormac would be ashamed of me.
I don't consider myself an amazing genius-level coder :P
:sadbronNo. Still working not enough hours at these two temp jobs. Still going to interviews and not getting called back.
I haven't gotten fat/chubby or anything, but I've been slacking hard on eating right and working out the past few months. Cormac would be ashamed of me.
:noah
I just found out that they are moving 850 of my company's jobs off the island. I don't know where I stand, because I don't work on either of the 2 programs that are moving... I work in a small group that supports all the different programs (we've always been a bit of a "redheaded stepchild" organization - people forget about us until they REALLY need us). But it's not looking too good, since they want to totally consolidate the LI campus. I have a few months of work that won't be affected by the change... but I've been getting my resume in order, bought a book on "tech interview questions" and have been perusing Indeed/CareerBuilder/Monster. I'm definitely freaking out since I just bought my place and don't have too much cash at the moment... also been at this company for 9 years too so it will be a MAJOR change. I'm worried that my skill set won't be too relevant, since I never really focus on one area (I've done everything from C++ to C# to making multimedia presentations and deriving requirements/systems engineering) and I don't consider myself an amazing genius-level coder :P
Yep, flyin high.
- Got all of my letters of recommendation lined up for my MBA, all of them from Vice Presidents.
- Getting involved in senior leadership committees at work
- I had sex with an attractive woman twice in the past week
- Debt free and loving it
- Fapping to more porn than ever. Almost nothing but Eastern European women with big titties.
10 years ago, I never thought any of this was possible. In fact, at 18, I was convinced that I would have killed myself far before turning 28.
Moving into a new place/About to fuck a ton of bitches.(http://i.imgur.com/KtqgO.jpg)
I've tried an failed to give up both alcohol and tobacco this year. I have stuck with a decent diet and a regular runnin schedule so in order to prepare for a 1/2 marathon. So I'm happy with my progress but not ecstatic.
I kinda feel like i've been in transition for 4 years now and I'm getting super tired of it...
Yeah, everyone likes the baby photos, no one actually wants to spend time with you if they are around
I've tried an failed to give up both alcohol and tobacco this year. I have stuck with a decent diet and a regular runnin schedule so in order to prepare for a 1/2 marathon. So I'm happy with my progress but not ecstatic.
Right on, man!
Yeah, everyone likes the baby photos, no one actually wants to spend time with you if they are around
Ok
Yeah, everyone likes the baby photos, no one actually wants to spend time with you if they are around
Ok
this is not your experience? My kid is 5 and most of my friends haven't ever met her
Yeah, everyone likes the baby photos, no one actually wants to spend time with you if they are around
Ok
this is not your experience? My kid is 5 and most of my friends haven't ever met her
Well that is true, you are an asshole.
We actually love our friends, and they like us. They are our only family here besides my parents. Luckily our kid isn't an asshole and we don't treat her like a hindrance to our fun-havin, so we all go to festivals or restaurants or whatever and she just comes with us.
Well that is true, you are an asshole.
We actually love our friends, and they like us. They are our only family here besides my parents. Luckily our kid isn't an asshole and we don't treat her like a hindrance to our fun-havin, so we all go to festivals or restaurants or whatever and she just comes with us.
thank you, i've worked hard to become so
I've tried an failed to give up both alcohol and tobacco this year. I have stuck with a decent diet and a regular runnin schedule so in order to prepare for a 1/2 marathon. So I'm happy with my progress but not ecstatic.
Right on, man!
You a runner, gundam?
Yeah, everyone likes the baby photos, no one actually wants to spend time with you if they are around
Ok
this is not your experience? My kid is 5 and most of my friends haven't ever met her
Life is good, but that existential crisis thing never goes away. It's always there whispering in your ear.
There are a few other issues...most of my friends are English-speakers, and the pool regularly gets drained as folks return to their home countries. I've lost more friends that way than most people have, I bet. So you have to be constantly making new friends, and that's tough at 40. I don't have to tell you how social I am so this is hard for me to deal with.
My wife doesn't speak English (and thus is basically disinterested in hanging out with my friends) and is an insane workaholic, meaning I babysit at least 6 days a week til 9 at night. Sitters don't exist here. I can go out in theory any time I want, but there is a lot of pressure not to from both wife and kid.
Haha, you guys only have to deal with that fucker "from time to time," he should be paying rent for living in my goddamn head 24/7. I am a human avatar of self-doubt.
Haha, you guys only have to deal with that fucker "from time to time," he should be paying rent for living in my goddamn head 24/7. I am a human avatar of self-doubt.
alcohol shuts him up. I booze up between Work episodes- my brain is either too busy to be horrible or too out of it to be horrible. It'll work until I kick it or something changes.
I kinda feel like i've been in transition for 4 years now and I'm getting super tired of it...
Sounds like being an adult.
Just quit my 12 hour a day job in Saudi to prepare for my US return roughly a month from now. It was stressing me the fuck out for a long time and now I paid off my dad's medical bills, the debt we owed for the house, the holds I had on my schooling account and books and other past debts and stuff. So I'm officially debt free and my family is officially debt free, I also have enough money in savings to get a car in the US and start paying rent for houses, not shitty apartments. I think I've managed something I never thought I could, I paid my parents back for everything short of them conceiving me, which I try not to think about.
Found a girl I really like who likes me back. I communicate with her almost all the time and when we aren;t speaking its mostly due to priorities. Too bad I can't fly her out to the US with me but that's OK, I'm not doing long distance but I'm sure me and her will keep in touch. I won't be dating anyone seriously in my return, I don't think I'd want to focus on someone so much when I'm still young and should be having fun.
I started cooking for myself more and more, I think I can make some good stuff now. I've been actively working out daily as well and have went from weighing 120 KG to 82 KG since September.
Its been good, I would like to thank the bore for keeping me sane and occupied during my most stressful and nerve racking moments of the past 7 months. Thank you guys for everything!
:lol Saudis have no concept of socio-economic classes.
I think my love of beer rubbed off on MAF. :(
Imagine a world without cool motorcycles or trolling people and you are there
what is an existental crisis
what is an existental crisis
days that end in y
These days, more beer I drink, the more I hate it. 10 years ago, I pounded down Miller High Life - The Champagne of Beers like it was nothing.
:bow 30 cans of beer for $15 :bow2
what is an existental crisis
days that end in y
fuckin WORD. I know there's this big crusade against single people complaining, but GOD DAMN is it hard to believe you have a place in the universe when its just you. It takes an EGO of massive proportions
what is an existental crisis
days that end in y
fuckin WORD. I know there's this big crusade against single people complaining, but GOD DAMN is it hard to believe you have a place in the universe when its just you. It takes an EGO of massive proportions
the universe is pretty big and remorseless! what folks mean by "existential crisis" i assume is "i don't wake up in the morning and have my existence confirmed in the eyes of another human being" which is an understandably maudlin condition but doesn't really change the facts that NOBODY MATTERS, SELF-WORTH IS A CULTURAL ILLUSION, and WE ALL DIE BADLY. i dunno, i've been cool with those factoids for awhile, and i can't imagine doubting one's own existence. well, i suppose i can, but the ability to alter my own physical nature would mean that i can potentially parameterize reality and if that's the case WATCH OUT MOTHERFUCKERS
now let's all go make spreadsheets and help opiate on gaf create new foundational protocols for humanlike interactions
I get what he means. Just substitute universe for society. I'm not useful to anybody besides maybe my mother, but we don't have much of a relationship past being related. So I'm really rather redundant, which usually doesn't bother me, because I have other shit to think about. When I don't, I get hung up on that and fall into a bit of a hole.
now let's all go make spreadsheets and help opiate on gaf create new foundational protocols for humanlike interactionsWere we not supposed to already be doing this?
what is an existental crisis
days that end in y
fuckin WORD. I know there's this big crusade against single people complaining, but GOD DAMN is it hard to believe you have a place in the universe when its just you. It takes an EGO of massive proportions
i don't believe i have a place in the universe as that would make no sense
good god i love asperger's some times
wait, what is this crusade against single people complaining? i'm starting to think maybe "single people" are developing a paranoid egocentrism. (i don't care if people complain. if projecting one's misery into the ether has a net positive effect on one's life, DO IT! i do crusade against homework, though.)
I feel the same for the most part, only when I get depressed that thinking turns on me and that's obviously not good. It's not something you can reason away. Well, I can't, anyway.I get what he means. Just substitute universe for society. I'm not useful to anybody besides maybe my mother, but we don't have much of a relationship past being related. So I'm really rather redundant, which usually doesn't bother me, because I have other shit to think about. When I don't, I get hung up on that and fall into a bit of a hole.
we're ALL redundant. the world doesn't give a shit. society may, but society is relativistic, hypocritical, and -- most importantly -- wholly arbitrary. "usefulness" and "relevance" are matters of luck, or at least of factors almost entirely outside your influence. might as well claim you aren't useful or relevant to an ocean. if you prefer the egocentrism that is a life lived where your perception and that of others dictates your reality, well, that's human nature, but it doesn't actually CHANGE a thing.
personally, i'm content to exist. i did when i was single, i do while i am married, and i will up until my scrotum gets lit on fire by an angry single person tired of me appearing smug and self-assured. (that doesn't mean i don't get depressed, or manic, or enraged, or disillusioned, or utterly fucking appalled at the general senselessness of it all of an occasion; it just means i don't do so in some HOLISTIC capacity. i don't revisit wounds, self-inflicted or otherwise, as though the familiar pains will give me meaning.)
I get what he means. Just substitute universe for society. I'm not useful to anybody besides maybe my mother, but we don't have much of a relationship past being related. So I'm really rather redundant, which usually doesn't bother me, because I have other shit to think about. When I don't, I get hung up on that and fall into a bit of a hole.
we're ALL redundant. the world doesn't give a shit. society may, but society is relativistic, hypocritical, and -- most importantly -- wholly arbitrary. "usefulness" and "relevance" are matters of luck, or at least of factors almost entirely outside your influence. might as well claim you aren't useful or relevant to an ocean. if you prefer the egocentrism that is a life lived where your perception and that of others dictates your reality, well, that's human nature, but it doesn't actually CHANGE a thing.
personally, i'm content to exist. i did when i was single, i do while i am married, and i will up until my scrotum gets lit on fire by an angry single person tired of me appearing smug and self-assured. (that doesn't mean i don't get depressed, or manic, or enraged, or disillusioned, or utterly fucking appalled at the general senselessness of it all of an occasion; it just means i don't do so in some HOLISTIC capacity. i don't revisit wounds, self-inflicted or otherwise, as though the familiar pains will give me meaning.)
If you cant get in the who fucking cares zone naturally you never will. You are who you are. Who fuckin cares people will act like its some goddamned skill but its not. You need to naturally have an ability to not care about what most people think. That's not a bad thing- its a different thing.
Asking a person who is socially awkward to stop caring about what people think of them - what the fuck- as them to fly next. Its like asking the person who doesn't care what people think to suddenly care. Not gonna happen.
who thinks single life is awesome past 25? there's the glib "oh, but you're single, you should have fun!" from loutish passive-aggressive peers but that's just the usual meaningless buddy-buddy pep talk.
thinking life is awesome is a choice independent of age or relationship status. you can't control reality, but you can control your expectations of it. you aren't even owed the air you breathe, much less every item of baggage your culture has saddled you with. i mean, i enjoy validation, but i don't anticipate it -- or worse, disacknowledge it because i didn't get EVERYTHING i wanted.
i'm not saying you shouldn't feel depressed or anxious or whatever; i'm just saying that EXISTENTIAL CRISIS is some pretty dramatic language for "man, i am carrying a motherfucker's worth of expectations i ain't prepared to shed."
who thinks single life is awesome past 25? there's the glib "oh, but you're single, you should have fun!" from loutish passive-aggressive peers but that's just the usual meaningless buddy-buddy pep talk.
thinking life is awesome is a choice independent of age or relationship status. you can't control reality, but you can control your expectations of it. you aren't even owed the air you breathe, much less every item of baggage your culture has saddled you with. i mean, i enjoy validation, but i don't anticipate it -- or worse, disacknowledge it because i didn't get EVERYTHING i wanted.
i'm not saying you shouldn't feel depressed or anxious or whatever; i'm just saying that EXISTENTIAL CRISIS is some pretty dramatic language for "man, i am carrying a motherfucker's worth of expectations i ain't prepared to shed."
Well yes but we gotta eat.
also, as a tangent , the culture of the workplace is absolutely absurd. even i catch myself dropping into full-on serf mode -- gotta please the little lords in their castles lest they DEVALUE ME. i try very hard not to sell out my peers, or misrepresent my abilities, but THE LORDS LOVE PAGEANTRY SO.Maybe if you weren't bringing the carts in one at a time and instead doing what we showed you we wouldn't have to hide you behind the bottle return for the rest of your shift.
you're fulfilling a basic need that people dont recognize: human contact, be it physical or whatever.
mcd, without the police involved?Some people don't want a kind of Abner Louima or Michael Mineo thing.
tl;dr Don't be a Shinji.but can I talk about my MS fetish?
And don't make references to anime, ever.
i'm a 25 year old virgin
doubt the police give a single fuck about me
PANTS OFF NOW GODDAM I MEAN IT :tauntaun
PANTS OFF NOW GODDAM I MEAN IT :tauntaun
side note: idk if yall have checked in on the baby boomers recently but they are lonely as shit. divorced, no aims or interests. starting to turn to social media, barely keeping in contact with their kids. shit is intensely sad. i work with a lot of them in my work and research and its soul crushing. even the people i see on a day to day basis in their 70s and 80s are doing better. they are going to be a psychiatric nightmare in 10 to 20 years.
even the people i see on a day to day basis in their 70s and 80s are doing better.A lot of them know all sorts of people and do lots of "unseen" crap together. Even if it's mostly conversations about their medical ailments or grandchildren.
yea but seeing as how theyre still together theyre probably well adjusted individuals.
fuck working in healthcare skews perceptions of everything
oh, maf's a longtime good friend of mine. he's used to the occasional criticism from me. if what i say doesn't work for him and he ignores it, he'll still continue to succeed in his own internet emotive way -- he's far more mature and self-reliant than he likes to give himself credit for. i was more pokin' at triumph because i enjoy baiting the bear in its den of self-loathing, but what the hey.
Being horny makes everything look a whole lot less disgusting though.
Old people rutting is why I fear old age. :-\i imagine old sex is just like fat sex, acutely disgusting but feels good man and youre going to die soon anyeay
Being horny makes everything look a whole lot less disgusting though.
I have been better lately, just having a bad couple of days in a row makes Triumph a something something.
I was simultaneously better and worse off before seriously thinking there was potential with this ladyfriend in Atlanta. I'll know for sure one way or another this weekend what's really going on... for simplicity's sake it would be easier if she just didn't have the same depth of feels for me that I do for her, because if she DOES I'm either going to get involved in a stupid long distance relationship that's probably doomed to end messily or do something incredibly stupid like quit school and move back to Atlanta because HEY PRETTY REDHEAD.
And I had been doing so well with setting and achieving goals for myself lately. Such is the neverending nature of the human condition. It goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.
Being horny makes everything look a whole lot less disgusting though.
well, you're better than gaf, where social anxiety x bonertime = THOSE GIRLS JUST AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME, HER EYES ARE WEIRDLY SPACED UGH
i am writing a white paper on porting opengl es 2.0 to direct3d 11.1
yes, it's THAT FUN
and i am nowhere near done :-(
i am writing a white paper on porting opengl es 2.0 shader setup to direct3d 11.1Why would anyone want to do this?
yes, it's THAT FUN
and i am nowhere near done :-(
There are a few other issues...most of my friends are English-speakers, and the pool regularly gets drained as folks return to their home countries. I've lost more friends that way than most people have, I bet. So you have to be constantly making new friends, and that's tough at 40. I don't have to tell you how social I am so this is hard for me to deal with.
My wife doesn't speak English (and thus is basically disinterested in hanging out with my friends) and is an insane workaholic, meaning I babysit at least 6 days a week til 9 at night. Sitters don't exist here. I can go out in theory any time I want, but there is a lot of pressure not to from both wife and kid.
I lost a couple of friends like that and more or less decided not to arse around with making new foreign friends. The ones I still have here are probably lifers (like dcharlie and cvxfreak) but I almost never see them cuz I'm out in the sticks. So all that was left to be done was to make some local Japanese friends or become a shut-in. I don't think I could deal with the latter so I went with the former.
what is even harder than being interpersonally dysfunctional while trying to connect with women is being interpersonally dysfunctional while trying to connect with women who are themselves EQUALLY interpersonally dysfunctional as youThat's the best part. Comparative advantage.
There are a few other issues...most of my friends are English-speakers, and the pool regularly gets drained as folks return to their home countries. I've lost more friends that way than most people have, I bet. So you have to be constantly making new friends, and that's tough at 40. I don't have to tell you how social I am so this is hard for me to deal with.
My wife doesn't speak English (and thus is basically disinterested in hanging out with my friends) and is an insane workaholic, meaning I babysit at least 6 days a week til 9 at night. Sitters don't exist here. I can go out in theory any time I want, but there is a lot of pressure not to from both wife and kid.
I lost a couple of friends like that and more or less decided not to arse around with making new foreign friends. The ones I still have here are probably lifers (like dcharlie and cvxfreak) but I almost never see them cuz I'm out in the sticks. So all that was left to be done was to make some local Japanese friends or become a shut-in. I don't think I could deal with the latter so I went with the former.
This resonates with me. I've lived in Japan for probably a total of 13 years, all told. I wanted to make friends at work, just as I have at every other game developer I've worked at, and there have been a fair number. Sadly, the people I got along with best left the company, as did the next batch, and after they left they didn't stay in touch. It may be due to the perceived lack of transience in the Japanese workplace, as opposed to the USA where devs never stay put for more than two or three years.
Anyway, yeah, hard to make Japanese friends, and the expats are either here for 6 to 12 months, then gone, or if they're here for the long haul, there's about a 50/50 chance that they're broken human beings who are unable to exist in their home country.
Ffffuuuuu...
The real cultural whammy here (once you get past the language barrier) is just that Japanese don't make a ton of friends anyway.To be fair, all of Japanese history to this point came before MiiVerse.
This is the life of an expat.
Same thing here. Out of my old gang in Ireland half have left already.
You get to know someone, they leave. It gets harder and harder to justify investing in new deep friends all the time. Now I stick to watching football with the guys at the pub.
Making good friends with locals is not only hard in Japan (although moreso imagine due to culture) but everywhere there is a barrier since these people have their lives setup there already. The Irish are the friendliest folks you'll meet but making Irish friends here ain't easy either, especially since I work with all expats all the time.
Honestly I think language is the biggest barrier for most expats in Japan. Like, even the ones who speak it well (Cormac falls into this group) would probably be able to relax more speaking their native tongue, and thus seek out fellow native English speakers. The real cultural whammy here (once you get past the language barrier) is just that Japanese don't make a ton of friends anyway.
I see that a lot with some groups of foreigners here. Even if they speak English well they hang out with fellow spanish/italians because they can express themselves better.This is basically all foreign people ever.
The people that are really fluent like some nordics, dutchies etc. don't have this at all and hang out with anyone. There is a big difference between speaking something well and being so fluent you don't feel the need to talk your native tongue.
You need, enjoy, and are even good at human contact--lots of it--yet people are so disappointing.Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy didn't have to troll on the internet.
edit: wait forgot another important one. lots of foreigners who come here and try to make local friends are weird-ass man-children who live and breathe anime and j-pop and vidya games, and they somehow got the idea that Japan is accepting of that shit. Rest assured, they look as weird here as they do back home, but for whatever reason, when they fail to make friends just as they do back home, they chalk it up to everything but themselves.
I see that a lot with some groups of foreigners here. Even if they speak English well they hang out with fellow spanish/italians because they can express themselves better.This is basically all foreign people ever.
The people that are really fluent like some nordics, dutchies etc. don't have this at all and hang out with anyone. There is a big difference between speaking something well and being so fluent you don't feel the need to talk your native tongue.
One of the hostilities to immigration stems from seeing this and not being able to imagine that those people can get better or that their children will be far better (as is normally the case) and thus can never integrate.
One of the projects I have worked on examined 1920s immigration debates in Congress. Part of it was comparing to modern times and it wasn't any different. The Huns* coming over would never learn English, do nothing but steal from white Americans and setup their own separatist states, etc.
*Anyone east of France.
EDIT: Should add for historical accuracy that when I say "debates in Congress" it was like 45% saying we need none of those damn filthy Europeans, 40% saying we only need the good Europeans, 4% saying we need those and plus some people to work fields and 1% saying anyone who wants to come.
- Increased work social obligations: There are a lot of expectations in Japan that you will hang out with coworkers after work, whether you like it or not. This leaves even less time for non-work friends than working adults already have. Again, not specific to foreigners - if you're not a coworker, you've got a considerably slimmer chance of getting time with people, Japanese or no.This is really starting to become a thing in the US.
And they take it out on you later if you aren't THERE FOR THE FUN.
The older I get, the less I care. It's great.This. I'm not very old, but this is something I learned early from my mom. Don't sweat it, move the fuck on with your life - whatever the problem is. Dwelling on it and kicking yourself or holding grudges against others just makes you miserable, not necessarily anyone else.
The older I get, the less I care. It's great.This. I'm not very old, but this is something I learned early from my mom. Don't sweat it, move the fuck on with your life - whatever the problem is. Dwelling on it and kicking yourself or holding grudges against others just makes you miserable, not necessarily anyone else.
This is corny as fuck but I love this quote from No Country for Old Men: All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more is going out the door.
edit: wait forgot another important one. lots of foreigners who come here and try to make local friends are weird-ass man-children who live and breathe anime and j-pop and vidya games, and they somehow got the idea that Japan is accepting of that shit. Rest assured, they look as weird here as they do back home, but for whatever reason, when they fail to make friends just as they do back home, they chalk it up to everything but themselves.
I was one of those parents who became a hermit. We moved just before having the kid and I didn't bother keeping up with people or making new friends :-\ Anyway years later now that my kid is older and more independent I find myself getting bored sometimes so I bought a PC headset the other day. I'm going to try joining a mumble server or two to get some of that human interaction going
You're always welcome to hang out with me and my posse of degenerates on our Mumble server.
One of the strange things about where I was, was that the after work drinks thing didn't happen. I had thought every Japanese company was indulging in that pastime, but as it turns out mine did not. My company had an End of Year party, welcome new employees party, and end of project party. It was about three time a year we'd see each other outside the office; the rest of the year was 12 hour days or worse.
In the 7 months I worked in US dev last year, we went out 4 or 5 times, and it was always fun, and initiated by the coworkers. I made several new friends, and felt like I could breathe again.
As for language, I'm able to converse pretty handily, though its nowhere near native, or even casual fluency. Even so, I don't feel it's the primary cause preventing intimacy. The likely cause there is a fundamental discrepancy in value systems.
So I figure, the job situation for me may be a blessing in disguise. A chance to meet new people or even possibly move to a new area where I'll be forced to.
Mr. Gundam, you need to change your name to "Mr. Seattle." :P
Doesn't Seattle have a lot of rainy/dreary weather?
I want to move somewhere where it's warm all the time.
My wife and I value our friends too much to stop seeing them just because we had a kid. I don't understand the whole "Have a kid, become a paranoid/judgmental hermit" mentality.So I figure, the job situation for me may be a blessing in disguise. A chance to meet new people or even possibly move to a new area where I'll be forced to.
Move to Seattle. Even though half of Seattle Bore has kids, we'd hang out with you.
My wife and I value our friends too much to stop seeing them just because we had a kid. I don't understand the whole "Have a kid, become a paranoid/judgmental hermit" mentality.
Well for now on I'm pulling the trigger. That's my life changer.
My wife and I value our friends too much to stop seeing them just because we had a kid. I don't understand the whole "Have a kid, become a paranoid/judgmental hermit" mentality.So I figure, the job situation for me may be a blessing in disguise. A chance to meet new people or even possibly move to a new area where I'll be forced to.
Move to Seattle. Even though half of Seattle Bore has kids, we'd hang out with you.
Honestly, I've been to Seattle once (back in 2007) and really liked it. It was during an unusually dry period though so I didn't bear witness to the infamous rain. I do have a bit of SAD due to 4 years living in Buffalo. But Seattle seemed especially good for outdoorsy types, lots of opportunities to mountainbike (something I love) and kayak (something I've always wanted to get into). It's probably just behind the DC metro as an area I'd relocate to if I ever wanted to get out of NY.
Are you familiar with the "Seattle freeze"? Remember reading an article about that a while ago and was wondering if there was any truth to it.
My wife and I value our friends too much to stop seeing them just because we had a kid. I don't understand the whole "Have a kid, become a paranoid/judgmental hermit" mentality.
Yeah. Dude acts like his entire social life is over. He also whines that he never has time to play video games anymore. Meanwhile other people I know with kids are hanging out with friends and finishing up plenty of games.
Seattle has better weather then Dublin.
I couldn't handle the PNW. I already get sad in November-January here in Los Angeles.
spring has been shit so far in Tokyo - horrible sandy dust storms choking the whole city. Got some peoples coming from Ireland at the end of the month for hanami and I think they're just gonna see yellow shit everywhere :gloomythatsracist.gif
My wife and I value our friends too much to stop seeing them just because we had a kid. I don't understand the whole "Have a kid, become a paranoid/judgmental hermit" mentality.So I figure, the job situation for me may be a blessing in disguise. A chance to meet new people or even possibly move to a new area where I'll be forced to.
Move to Seattle. Even though half of Seattle Bore has kids, we'd hang out with you.