{"id":673,"date":"2005-11-16T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/archives\/673"},"modified":"2005-11-16T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T07:10:00","slug":"several-of-my-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Several of my quirks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m spending way too much time at the gym. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get there around 6 and leave around 8:30. Part of the problem is that Dave the Trainer says that I should pause several minutes between sets. So I can overdo a set, and then stand around for a while to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recharge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>While I was busy <del>sitting around<\/del> resting between reps on the weight bench, a woman came over to ask me how I would fix her phone. I went into geek mode and asked questions and ended up telling her to call the internet phone company she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s using. Then, I though, did she want me to fix her phone or did she want me to FIX\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 HER\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 PHONE\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6? Man, I can not get the signals straight. Are there signals, \u00e2\u20ac\u2122cause I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m straight.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two odd sightings at the gym, a guy who works out in very nice wool slacks, a crisp white shirt, and a nice silk necktie! I think the guy probably is here on business or something and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything else to wear, but is is a bit different. One of Dave the Trainer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends was saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What if he goes in the locker room and changes into sweats to go home?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>And Dave the Trainer also pointed out a woman on his favorites list (i.e. attractive and healthy). The only thing I have against her is that she wears the shirt of the oppressor. Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure where that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shirt of the oppressor\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thing came from (besides out of my mouth) but it said STANFORD. And one of the quirks I should mention is that I never want to go out with anyone from Reed College or Stanford University. I told my sister this and asked if I was just being weird. She told me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, Stanford is awful.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d HAHAHA. (She also told me that I was gay, and that the gym was full of gay dudes. I told Dave the Trainer and he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Man, I feel sorry for all them straight dudes, sitting on the couch and getting fat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and another one of my hangups is people or pets sitting on things with no pants on. I know pets don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wear pants, but just getting butt on things kinda weirds me out. Not excessively, mind you, but I think about it sometimes. Like when my sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dog Dede sits on things all I can think of is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dog butt.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Well, I rode Mariko\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car with Dede and Dede likes standing on the passenger seat, pushing her butt against you for stability. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go into a cleaning ritual, so I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not that weird about dog butt.<\/p>\n<p>I should quit keeping score, but I got one email from match.com (another Chinese woman, but at least this time she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only 20-30 miles away) but no replies to the emails I sent out on fastcupid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m spending way too much time at the gym. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get there around 6 and leave around 8:30. Part of the problem is that Dave the Trainer says that I should pause several minutes between sets. So I can overdo a set, and then stand around for a while to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recharge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d While I was busy sitting around resting between reps on the weight bench, a woman came over to ask me how I would fix her phone. I went into geek mode and asked questions and ended up telling her to call the internet phone company she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s using. Then, I though, did she want me to fix her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Several of my quirks.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}