BeaTlesFan77

Just curious. When everyone is not online dating and meeting people in real life, are you able to go to activities or places that are relatively close to your home or do you have to travel a ways? In other words, do you live in the city where everything is close or are you in the suburbs where there isn’t much to do?

From what I recall, I came to the site through the Quarter Life Crisis website. After reading the book, I came on here to see where everyone else was in life around my age group. Supposed to start a new position as a Business Operations Analyst this coming Monday. Next month I’m turning 45. Never been married and have no kids. Any other questions feel free to ask. 😀

And hence speed dating was created.

Online Dating

Agreed I’m very thankful for coffee!

Hopefully there isn’t a sprite for this woman. I’m sorry to hear that things didn’t work out. Just curious, which platforms/sites are you using now?

The only bad thing about staying up late on Friday and Saturday is that it screws up your sleep schedule for the rest of the weekend and the days go quicker sleeping in late. After working all week, I want to make sure I have my whole Saturday and Sunday.

You're welcome! You're going to be fine and do great.

I’m old fashioned so I would have to say 8 to 4 or 9 to 5. That way I have my evening if I want to do anything. Everyone else I know here also works those types of hours. Back when I was in college and working in retail doing evening shifts, those were the days where I would stay up late gaming or late night dining with friends. I feel the same way about weekends too. Where I feel like I’m missing out on something if I don’t have any fun plans with anyone. Something must be wrong with me if I don’t have a social life over the weekend. The summer part doesn’t bother me anymore.

Right now a playlist of rain sounds on Spotify. I always listen to that as I’m getting ready to sleep.

The Final Destination and Final Destination 5. “Death doesn’t like to be cheated.”

Only thing I can say is it's just like anything else in life. It's hard at first, but the more you do it over time your body and mind will adjust. I've gone through many different working schedules throughout my life. Hours, distance, working holiday retail hours, receiving 4 AM morning deliveries and stocking stores, working 'bankers hours', you name it. With regards to doing things like going to restaurants or pubs on weekdays, are you going with a group of people or solo? I'm thinking with a group as I've gone to sports bars around here and still feel alone even though I'm solo and around a lot of people. Just gets miserable. Then I do my shopping on the weekdays after the sun starts going down. Don't like going into stores on the weekends if I can help it. Especially warehouse places like Costco.

Thanks Green and Happy Easter to you too! Hope you had a great holiday with your family.

That's great that you get along with your ex like that along with his gf and can do things together with no friction. Can't say I've heard that from other people I know. I haven't tried the Oculus yet. Looks pretty sweet from what I've seen advertised though. I would rather play one of the workout games on that than walk a treadmill. LOL! That game that looks like you have a light saber or something similar and have to hack at and dodge objects coming at you. Then isn't there a first person Star Wars game on there as well? Where you can play as Vader? Great to see I'm not the only one who is annoyed with upgrading PCs to play new games. Yes, it's time consuming and another monetary investment. GTA V sounds pretty good if you can do that all stuff. When it goes on sale again I'll consider it. Yeah I'm with you on not wanting to touch game pieces with rising cases where you are. Is there a sanction in place where you are where everything is closed and you can only do takeout or have stuff delivered? If not, hopefully in the near future that gets lifted. Congrats on your recent job offer acceptance! Great to hear about everything that is coming with it too. Especially getting out of that hostile and toxic environment you talked about. Don't they get that toxic environments hinder performance? You should absolutely relish this moment after everything you have worked for. Trust me, it's a great feeling having your own place along with a single income where you can have a great work/life balance. Kills me to hear when people have to work multiple jobs just to have a place to live.

When it comes to talking about cars and careers yes. I’m always knocking on wood.

Sounds like he was pretty desperate if he was pouring his heart out to you so soon. I think you dodged a bullet on that one. Not all of us men are bad.

I'm sorry to hear about what you're going through there. Sounds like a pretty toxic environment. I wouldn't want to be there either. One of my previous work places had a program where you could have an "umpire" per se if there was a dispute between two employees. You would think that would be beneficial as it would give each side a chance to tell their story.

Thanks! Recently I've been playing a lot of virtual pinball (Pinball FX and Stern Pinball Arcade). I actually have not picked up RDR2 yet but will someday once it comes down in price again. Still working on the very first one and RDR. I have not played any of the GTA games. Yes I have heard a lot of great things about V. Can't you also fly planes in that one? I've got so many games I have yet to play that I'll be busy for years. Some of them are still in the box shrink wrapped. LOL! The only Sims I have is the one for PS4. Pretty sure they make it for Mac as well but I'd have to check and see if my systems specs can handle it. That's one thing that got me out of PC gaming. Having to always upgrade to support new games. With the console, I know it's going to work when I purchase the game as it was designed for it. I remember back when Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine came out and I was so stoked for it. Finally it came out and I was very disappointed when I read the system specs on the side of the box. That was the last straw. Yes, Covid destroyed a lot of things when it came to social schedules and everything changed. I hope you get to get back into the Meetups again with board games. Maybe I'll try it too as things get better. How are you able to be around your ex and his gf? No arguments either?

Just tell them you don’t think you have much in common and that it was nice to meet them.

Personally I would say don’t do it as you both work at the same place and location. If it was a situation where you worked in a huge building and were in separate departments, then that’s different. Should things not work out, then you’ll have the pain of still seeing each other every day. In other words don’t poop where you eat.

Can’t say I have at this point. Hopefully there are no contagious diseases there.

Oh and another one of my pet peeves with people on there. They take pictures of themselves from miles away. In addition to taking a lot of pictures with other friends making it difficult to determine which one has the profile.

Honestly I find out a lot of the people on there I have nothing in common with. For some reason everyone loves hiking, are gym rats, travel to places like Machu Picchu or some other place I’ve never heard of, or God is their center of life and they want another God centric man. Gets pretty annoying.

I’ve tried Match and nothing came out of it.