Skype - bringing people together
I logged onto my computer today, turned my Skype on for the first time in ages, and someone living in the opposite hemisphere to me caught me on “chat”. Now I met this girl whilst travelling in south America, she is a wicked lady. I must admit, I did fancy her a little at the time, and she is in a long term relationship with a guy called Dan. Infact, here is the conversation as it same out.
For reasons of me not getting in trouble, the names have been changed to Tarzan and Jane!
[09:35:50] Tarzan says: Jane?
[09:36:10] Tarzan says: Give me 5 minutes to finish this and grab my headset and I’ll call you back!
[09:39:25] Jane says: Tarzan
[09:39:36] Tarzan says: I lent my headset to someone at work yesterday, and didn’t get it back!
[09:39:41] Tarzan says: Damn!
[09:39:53] Tarzan says: I don’t have another one here
[09:40:16] Jane says: never mind
[09:40:19] Tarzan says: There is some kind of mike somewhere in the house, but its lost somewhere with my webcam
[09:40:20] Jane says: guess what?!
[09:40:24] Tarzan says: What?
[09:40:27] Jane says: guess
[09:40:39] Tarzan says: Hmmm… Jakes havaing children? (jake is the dog)
[09:40:45] Tarzan says: * GRIN *
[09:40:45] Jane says: no
[09:40:53] Tarzan says: Am in the right area at all?
[09:41:08] Jane says: in a very very broad way, stretching it a lot… maybe
[09:41:27] Tarzan says: Okay - lets play 15 questions - yes or no answers from you only.. yeah?
[09:41:40] Tarzan says: 1) Is it anything to do with Jake?
[09:41:41] Jane says: ok
[09:41:54] Tarzan says: 1) Is it anything to do with Jake?
[09:42:02] Jane says: no
[09:42:21] Tarzan says: 2) Is it based around BOTH you and Dan?
[09:42:37] Jane says: yes
[09:43:28] Tarzan says: 3) Does the “change” element of the new thing involve some kind of physical Geographical movement?
[09:44:07] Jane says: nope
[09:44:21] Tarzan says: Hmm… so not moving to The Uk then. Damn!
[09:44:38] Tarzan says: Is it a relationship change between you and Dan?
[09:44:44] Jane says: possibly
[09:44:45] Tarzan says: 4)
[09:44:52] Tarzan says: possibly… !
[09:44:56] Jane says: ok, yes
[09:44:58] Tarzan says: Thats not a yes or no
[09:45:02] Tarzan says: Yes!
[09:45:18] Tarzan says: Hmmm… does it involve a third party of any kind?
[09:45:21] Tarzan says: 5)
[09:45:24] Jane says: nope
[09:45:31] Tarzan says: Not pregers then
[09:45:35] Jane says: nope
[09:45:42] Tarzan says: * Grin * thats a shame
[09:45:53] Tarzan says: I’d love it if there were little sals and Dans in the world!
[09:45:57] Tarzan says: 6…
[09:46:08] Tarzan says: 6) Oh! OH!!!!
[09:46:13] Jane says: yes?
[09:46:35] Tarzan says: 6) Did Dan…. propose? (as in marraige n stuff)
[09:46:39] Jane says: yes
[09:46:42] Tarzan says: OH!!!!!!!!!!!!1
[09:46:46] Tarzan says: OHOOHOHOHO!!!!!
[09:46:50] Tarzan says: OHHO!HO!H!OH!O!HO!H!!!!OH!OH!O!!!!
[09:46:55] Tarzan says: Ah yeah1!!!
[09:46:57] Tarzan says: Oh yes!
[09:47:01] Tarzan says: Cashback!~
[09:47:03] Tarzan says: Score!!!
[09:47:06] Tarzan says: Its a winner!!!
[09:47:14] Tarzan says: You know theres 10 in the box!!!!
[09:47:17] Tarzan says: Hammer time!!!1
[09:47:23] Tarzan says: Can’t touch this!!!
[09:47:46] Tarzan says: That is brillliant knews!!! Wow!!!
[09:48:22] Tarzan says: Okay - hang on a second, I’m running upstairs to see if I can see if my sister has her work headset at home right now - back in a minute!
[09:48:23] Jane says: ok
[09:48:24] Jane says: good response
[09:48:35] Tarzan says: Grin!! This is AWESOME!!!!
[09:48:42] Jane says: 
[09:48:42] Tarzan says: And I really need to hear all about it!!!!
[09:48:49] Jane says: teehee!
[09:48:58] Jane says: well there’s not that much to tell!
[09:49:07] Jane says: by the way, when is your sis getting married?
[09:50:10] Tarzan says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZRGxlj6Fc
[09:50:46] Jane says: i’m opening you tube… sometimes this makes my computer shut down and not start up for a while
[09:51:10] Jane says: v funny! we’re NOT going to the chapel!
[09:51:11] Jane says: 
[09:51:29] Jane says: hey bad news… i’ve gotta head out… meeting people for dinner… we might ahve to continue this another time
[10:00:28] Tarzan says: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/birdsofafeather/
[10:07:01] Tarzan says: Hello?
[10:07:06] Tarzan says: You left the phone on!
[10:07:16] Tarzan says: erm… I’m haging up now!
So as you can see, they are getting married, and I am very happy for them, I really am. The words, “he doth protest too much…” do spring to mind. I must admit that there is a little twinge however, just a small one. I don’t think that it is about Jane at all, but about me (Tarzan!). I think that everyone wants to find someone, and I think that we all want to have a partner to share our lives with. It is just difficult to find that. I was reading an article on Metro Male about how to increase your pulling power. I’m not sure that it is something that is easily done, but perhaps I can do something about increasing the odds a little by putting myself out there.
I did a quick look and search for internet dating, and it just doesn’t appeal to me. The whole thing involves being online and is largly not in person. So I’ve decided to go speed dating - at least that is in person and I can see the people that I am “meeting”, instead of wasting time on a 52 year old man pretending to be my jane!
I did a search for both speed dating london and speed dating Glasgow as I’m up there next week and these are the two pages I found. I think that I’m going to go out and do it. It’s weird though. I’m a self proclaimed geek, I’m proud of it, but I do hesitate about the speed dating thing, I really do, though I don’t know why.
I think I’m going to bite the bullet and get on with it. Updates here as they develop.
If nothing happens or it’s really embarasing, you’ll hear not another word about this!
