This thread has inspired me to try an open mike night for stand up

I'm gonna suck but I really would love to be a comedian.

Sounds a pretty good idea, everybodies gonna suck at first, but it's the only way you can get better at it. To suck and be proud of the suck. I posted an article a while back, but its relevant here too pretty funny actually.

Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead: A Three Step Process

I tried an indoor climbing session last weekend, so this weekend I'm following through with the beginners course over 3 weeks, so I can learn to belay and climb properly, going to step up the running a bit next week in preparation for next weeks 10k run the following weekend. After those three weeks I have to pick another sport / activity, thinking something water sport based, maybe down the Trafford water sports centre.

I've organised with a friend to rent a flat in Barcelona for a week sometime in the upcoming months, I'd love to visit the city, and the country to be fair, though I need to brush up on my spanglish!

Used airbnb on a recent trip to Dublin. Was bang central, half the price of hotels and a lovely old town house with a kitchen so you can stock up the fridge with beers!

Whereas I don't have Anu advice for travel I would recommend not running for at least 3 days before your race but doing some walking, stretching thoroughly each morning and night and then eating pasta/complex carbs the day before

I'll check out airbnb, and yeah I know don't want to risk a shin splint before the race!

Actually I'm going to create a separate thread for my drunk rantings, it happens that frequently that you guys might actually get a laugh out of it!

A little counter intuitive to my last post (one or two ago), I metup with my ex the other night, and that's the ex that I got really hung up over at the beginning of this year (before I started into PUA), I have no idea what I wanted out of this, and I still don't but there had been plenty of conversations on FB discussing, in detail and in pretty much graphic detail to make you think that "yeah this girl is up for it" but I won't go into detail. Yet I get there and she's as passive as anything, not responding to any playful gestures, at first I thought she was just being playfully deceitful, but it was like she was a different person. So I'm left questioning myself, "did I do something to fuck it?" but after a little contemplation, I figure I did what I could and it didn't work, I need to move on. But it still bugs me. I kind of forget that women can be just as fucked up as us, they have no idea what they want either. But I wonder, that I could have done something differently. Retrospect is a amazing thing but it will make you think lesser of yourself at times...

That's an area that you don't want to go to. I mean thinking what if I had done x,y,z. It's really hard not to go there and start wondering what you could have done different. But a) it's in the past and you can't change it and b) you did the best you could being the person you were at that time and the information you had available. So the conclusion is ...forget it and move on.

Aye of course, thinking about what could or couldn't have been would be nothing less than insane, but it just left me thinking about it, the FB chat was all there, but then when I say her it just wasn't, thinking she was pretty much just a tease but frustratingly that just makes her more attractive...