I’m completely cracking myself up at the moment. I just found a really cool synth sound that reminded me of Van Halen’s “Jump”, and I played along with the song for at least 1/2 hour. Cool.

What’s cracking me up even more is the South Park episode that’s on TV at the moment. Paris Hilton has opened a whore store in South Park, and the writers are taking the piss out of Paris really well. It is one of the funniest episodes I’ve ever seen. One really bad/sad thing I noticed during one of the breaks in South Park though - an advert for an electric jar opener. What are us guys going to do now? Our job is to open jars. Men are slowly being replaced by machines. I feel lost.

To all the people who were going to enchanted this year back in good ol’ SA: I HOPE YOU HAD FUN!!! I really wish I could have made it. Unfortunately, due to circumstances out of my control I couldn’t be back at this time. Nav, CJB, Ben, I spammed all your phones and Nav I left return phone numbers (the 75225533 number was “PKCALLED”, the other number was my real number here in the US). I couldn’t call from my Australian mobile phone as my family were using it in New York.

One question I have though: how the hell are you guys going to get home this year? ;-)

I’ve mentioned “the player” on this site before, and through discussions I’ve had with him recently we may as well be from different universes. First a background profile on “the player”. He got divorced about a year ago after a 7 year marriage. He has 2 kids, aged 5 and 7 years old. He’s in his early 30s.

“The player” for the past year has constantly dated women. He has a problem with being alone (as in, not dating) for more than 2 weeks at a time. He has no problem with dating more than one woman at a time, but he will will be honest with his date and tell them he is dating another woman if they ask (and if that is the case). His thoughts on dating are that it’s ok to date more than one girl at once, so long as you are honest with them. Furthermore, he says his time is mostly spent on thinking about dating women, and he is completely and utterly absorbed in experimenting with chatting up women and finding that recipe of words that will make them his. He seems pretty confident that he’s nailed most of that, and seems certain that for any given night he will pick some girl up. He also has no fear of being rejected, which would obviously help.

I know for certain I’m not that sort of person, but heck I’m going to try and find out what makes the mind of a person like “the player” tick. And I have other questions, the girls who date guys like this - why do they do it? Do they suffer from the same fear of being alone as “the player” does? Do they care/know that they in for a quick and dirty releationship that probably (and evidence has shown) won’t last for more than a few weeks? Does it help prop up their self esteem that some guy is cracking onto them?