LR: 8/15/14

               This pickup was one of the ones that are so perfect you feel like you are on fire and didn’t slip up. If this was mortal combat it would have been a flawless victory.

               I met her at a house party. She walked in while I was talking to KingMelons. I immediately looked at her and said we are talking about life stories, tell me yours. She told me where she went to elementary school, then high school, then college. I told her that couldn’t really sum up her whole life. That was a tiny neg. She came in with a male friend, so I was a bit concerned that they were dating at first but that got cleared up. She was an English major and so was KingMelons, and we had a short discussion about their different styles and focuses in their work.

               This began stalling out and I pulled all four of us outside. We crawled out through a window onto the balcony to chat. I went out first, and held her heels as she crawled through. She later told me that she thought this was gentlemanly. We talked outside for a bit. I overheard her male friend tell her that I was into her and that she should go for it. YES! A cool and not jealous male friend who is on my side? I was floored because I had been getting cock blocked at every turn by most friends. This guy is a true g.  I used this opportunity to ask how they knew each other, to get some logistics out of the way. She said they were house mates, and I said oh that’s cool I have roommates as well. Then she teased me about the house mate roommate difference and we laughed about the dumb particulars of these phrases. English majors :P! She said she was going to the bathroom, and I was a bit worried that she was going to leave and go do other shit or something but I stayed put and met her male friend outside. He turned out to be really funny and said that he makes friends by walking up to people and asking point blank if they will be friends now lol. He also was yelling at passersby peoples.

               She came back and popped her head through the window, saying she didn’t really want to come back because it was too cold outside. I realized this was an opportunity for me to isolate. I agreed and leaped back in through the window. I immediately started chatting her up and isolated her in a way in which her friend and my friend couldn’t really join in on the conversation, like we were face to face in a corner. KingMelons left us alone. This caused her male friend to sit on a couch and look at us. I realized this was getting a bit awkward and moved her to a table in another room. So at this point I had been able to move her twice. This was a good sign, she was compliant.

               I isolated her at the table and we talked more about our lives and specifically her intention to study abroad. I gave her a lot of my personal favorite places in Europe and some recommendations of museums etc. Things were progressing well and she was giving me the bambi eyes. I felt like it was so on. The conversation turned to her playing spin the bottle and having no problem with kissing people when she had played the game before. I straight up asked if she wanted to kiss me after this, and she said yes. We made out for about 10 seconds and then I pulled away, it felt kind of mutual actually. I turned the conversation back to talking. This was fucking perfection and I have been loving disengaging sexual progression. I was perfectly able to cycle out of the frame of a seedy pickup and into a regular interaction where mutual interest is established. I honestly think that disengaging from sexual points first is the second largest attraction switch next to pre selection.

               We talked for a bit more, and I got her number. I texted her that night that it was cool to meet her. I had been trying to incorporate Tyler Durden’s idea of not texting anything that it would be awkward to respond to into my text game. At some points it seems like you have to ask something that it would be awkward to respond to, but most of the time it is easily avoidable. I finally got her to agree to go out with me 5 days after we met at the party.

               I have been doing a new thing on dates where I fulfill all of society’s expectations of a man’s role in the dating process. It feels really fun and right to do, and has gotten me laid both times I’ve done it so far. By fulfilling the man’s role I mean being a spontaneous, funny, and romantic guy, who plans everything. When I picked her up I had set up a house to stay in by a lake, and got us food and wines before the date began. We got to the lake and floated a bit outside drinking wine and joking around together. Eventually we were just making out in the floaters so much that it made sense to just go inside. We hung out making out for another hourish before we had sex. There were really no slip ups on my part, it felt like I was just working with all of my pickup machinery wired for success with this girl. All In all we were face to face for about 4 hours before sex. This is pretty god damn fast for me. We proceeded to hang out and hook up for the next four days in a row, and I really like this chick. Unfortunately she is in a different city, so it won’t work out into anything major, maybe just a girl to hang out with when I go back to Boston. She is truly awesome and has one of the best personalities of any girl I’ve ever met. That’s not to mention how cute she is. 

Here's a picture of her: 

FR: Instant Karma

Logistics: August 10th, 2014

Venues: The Beergarden, Press Play

               I had a really good night out at the bars last night, I kind of want to write up a field report about it. So here it goes.

               I went out to a pool party with some friends. It was a good time, we got in the hot tub and swam in the pool etc. Had some drinks over there and hung out with close friends. I knew I would be in a great mood all night because I just finished my undergrad degree. I did a warm up set at the pool party, talking to randos to get in a social frame. It was cool, didn't go anywhere though.

               Then we went out to the bars together. The first bar we went to was press play. We got in there and it was crowded, and filled with some cute girls. Unfortunately the music was awful and I was not drunk enough to dance to it, even though I was significantly wasted by this point. Not as much as the last night I wrote about though, I didn’t actually black out last night. So I did an approach two a 2 set with two blonde girls. One was significantly hotter than the other. I opened the uglier one and began to talk to her. She eventually went to sit on the other side of the cute one and I started up a conversation with her. It was going decently, but she kept being distracted from our conversation, and talking to her friend on the other side of her or asking for drinks etc. I was not keeping her attention as well as I wanted. Then 3 of my guy friends came and sat next to me, and she got up and left. I think they may have came off as a bit aggressive, but I could have done something to keep her around I’m sure. I need to experiment with this. Overall I think I stayed in a flirty frame to often because of my drunkenness, and didn’t transition well enough to other frames of a conversation, making me seem one dimensional/overly needing their frame etc. I need to work on this. My friend and I briefly went to try to girls we vaguely knew on the dance floor/dance with them, but the music was so bad we couldn’t take it.

               We then left and went to another bar called the Beergarden. We got in and I was psyched on approaching more people so I went to the back of the bar, and got in one. Hooking was really easy this particular night, I got no flat out rejections. Then again I didn’t do as many as I should have, but I was splitting my time between game and talking with close friends, so I didn’t feel lot of pressure anyway other than to have fun and not force anything. The set I got in had 2 guys and 3 girls. I told one of the girls with a guy that she looked like Anna Paquin, which went over decently well. I began to talk to the one girl that was alone, when a guy walked in and took her attention away. I didn’t care to much because she wasn’t really that attractive anyway, so I didn’t try to continue talking with them after that. My buddy came up to me and we went to the front side of the bar.

               We noticed a girl who was really cute near the doorway. I said I wanted to talk to her, and he laughed at me. She then began to walk up to us, presumably to get to the other side of the bar, and my buddy said this is your chance talk to her now. I opened up directly and asked her for her name, and she seemed into it. She came up next to me and we got in a good 15 minute conversation, mostly about flirty bullshit I don’t think anything concrete was said beyond her wanting nachos. I should have been more than just flirty again, because she lost interest and said she wanted to find her friends. She was hot so I was upset that I fucked this one up, but I did get her number. I don’t think that’s going to go anywhere though. After this set I didn’t do any more approaches at the Beergarden, I was content to hang with friends.

               My friend and I went out for a cigarette, and we got one from some bored looking girls. They gave it to us and went inside the Catacombs. While outside I saw 2 girls talking, and went up and said hi. My friend and I and the girls got in a fairly vanilla conversation about one girls job working as a dermatologist. It was informative but I didn’t really give a fuck. I was just trying to learn something new or whatever I don’t exactly remember if I had any concrete thoughts besides the will to approach at this point. I was very drunk by now. She eventually said bye and got in a cab or something to go.

               I was walking back to my bike at this point because the bars were closing. I went down the street and saw my friend Peter. He was with three girls, and seemed to be doing well with one of them. I ran up to him cause I hadn’t seen him in a minute and greeted him and his friends enthusiastically. One of them was a cute brunette. I walked up to her and told her my name, she told me hers, and that’s all we said to each other. We just started making out though right there, I was holding her up against a light post, and I have to say it was fucking awesome. Pulling in 25 seconds or less is always an amazing feeling, it feels like real mastery of game when things like that happen to you. I was in state and I just felt that it was very powerfully on with this girl. We made out for a solid 5 minutes or something, and then the other girl there who was her friend fucking cockblocked me pulling her away. I mean she was presumably just standing there awkwardly as I was making out with her the whole time. What can I do about this shit? Female cockblocks will be the death of me. She asked the girl I hooked up with if she was ready to leave and they left together leaving me elated and wanting more at the same time. I don’t know what I can do about this honestly I need to work on my skills and intercept these things. Things go well with a girl and within seconds the female cockblock comes and it’s over. I need to work on my fucking reaction time apparently. Anyway this was the best night I’ve had in a while and it was fun. I really want to concentrate on pickup more now that I’m done with school. I am excited to move in with my wing Flow at some point soon hopefully, to tear shit up with him.

Thoughts/SP:

1. I need to cycle through frames to keep things interesting, staying too flirty or too interviewy is fucking boring and girls lose interest

2. React to the female cockblock, don't be content with this happening.

3. Your opener doesn't mean shit, what's important is sub communications and eye contact. I literally didn't think about any opener before I said it in set I just ran in and things happened naturally.

FR: Autopilot

Logistics: Saturday, May 10th

Venues: The Absinthe House, Press Play

Pivot: Manhattan

Friends: Sweden, Denmark

Girls: HBjoan, HBblonde

Obstacles: Obstacle

               We went out to the Absinthe house. We only walked in there for a second, because it was so dead. I approached a set at the bar. The girls were cool, they had shots to hand out shortly after I approached. The set went pretty well, the girls were receptive until they walked away. I couldn’t get it where I wanted it to go though, so whatever. We just left right after that anyway because it was so dead.

               We went to press play and ran into friends on the way. Sweden came randomly later too, with Denmark and HBjoan. I don’t quite remember how I got into a conversation with HBjoan, but I remember one thing distinctly. Some aspect of sexuality came up, or she said something testing if I was going after her, and I said that I wouldn’t hook up with her or declined casually. After this she was much more interested in me and took my number, and texted me. She then hit me up this morning to go out with her tonight after coffee. I’m not sure if I want to sleep with her but this seems like she’s seducing herself for me or just plain seducing me. It’s pretty cool because this shit never happens to me like this. I usually have to make the first moves. Who knows though maybe she just wants to be friends.

               Moving forward, the night was interesting at Press Play. A friend and I were talking and he pointed out a girl at the bar who was cute. I took this as an opportunity to approach and did so immediately. The 2 set blew open. The conversation went well and as far as I remember we were flirting or something else stupid for most of it. It stalled out though and they went to the dance floor.

               After that a group of Manhattan’s work friends came into the bar, or she knew them somehow, I don’t fucking know how she knew them really. Manhattan found me and told me I could have any of “these three”, and pointed to three out of four of the girls. I started talking to HBblonde then they ran to the dance floor. Our group followed and we started awkwardly dancing around each other to some garbage music. I can’t remember what was playing but I was singing along a bit I think. I was dancing near HBblonde, when her friend told me that HBblonde thought I was cute. I was taken aback a bit. I still didn’t really do anything. Manhattan basically told me to dance with her somehow, It’s fuzzy I can’t remember how. We were grinding and it was really fun, like my high school days. I made out with her on the dance floor a couple times, it was chill and so easy.

               I am really happy with Manhattan for helping get me a girl and swag. Also hooking up with a stranger is kinda hot. I made out with her a couple times outside too, trying to isolate her more. I can’t remember what happened in a lot of places last night, I think I blacked out about half of it or at least details are gone. Alcohol is pretty fucking powerful. Anyway I was trying to take her home, but her friend obstacle was isolating her from me repeatedly for some reason. It was pretty annoying but female cock blocks are something I need to learn how to deal with. This is a failure on my part for getting bullied by obstacle. However I need to learn from this and deal with them better in the future. I think I remember obstacle's exact words, while I was talking to the HBblonde, obstacle ignored me and said “only we are getting in the car right?” the HBblonde nodded. Maybe this is more of a failure on my part to get the girl alone and get real information from her aside from just physical attraction. I need to remember to make real connection with girls and not only assume shit is on, so that I can best deal with the situation. This is why dance floor game is weak, the easy initial part presents the difficulty of isolating from friends and making real connections in comfort.

               With that failure aside, the night was a success for me mentally and I feel as if I automatically was able to open, kiss close, and number close with efficiency. I got into state for the first time in a while. I am bouncing back from my old GF problems and beginning to remember what strong game feels like to possess. 

Thoughts/SP:

1. The female cockblock is rough. I have to make sure to isolate and build a powerful connection to avoid this fate from occuring again.

2. Manhattan is a great pivot, it was truly one of the easiest pick ups I've done because of her cupid like behaviors

3. Drinking a lot can put you into state effectively, but it will also make you lose sight of the future

4. I really enjoyed the ability to let go and have fun without any outcome dependence in state

FR: Flying Solo

Logistics:
Wednesday, 2/26/14

FR:

               I went out alone for the first time yesterday. I could only manage about an hour and a half out. I was feeling lots of pressures that I need to settle from the environment. People are really not as mean as they seem when you’re out alone, and I have to internalize that a bit more. Here’s my recollection.

               I walk into the Walrus and try to get into a set immediately. There weren’t to many people there so I just walked into the first 4 set I saw on my left. I was trying to come into interactions with a frame of just having fun with no attachment to getting laid. I talked to one girl on the left for about 5 minutes about random shit like where she was from and the color purple. Things were stalling out a bit then one of the girls told me she was a lesbian so I got frozen out hard. It was a warm up set though so I didn’t really expect it to go well.

               I then approached two girls in the corner sitting on the couch. We got into a long interesting conversation about Texan culture and guns. They weren’t too attractive though, I just wanted to talk to them to keep a social feeling going. That went on for about 20 minutes, and then they got up and went to get a drink. They basically froze me out that way but I didn’t care too much I was just trying to chill with them for a bit. I went on to the next bar and talked to some random guy for a while, to stay social. The bar there only had mixed sets and I didn’t feel like doing those.

               I left that bar and headed to the Downer, where I approached a couple of girls, one was really attractive in some interesting designs. I discovered that one of them was a designer so that was interesting except they both eventually ran away. I’m having problems keeping sets hooked again; my conversations keep stalling out for some reason. After that I approached two girls at the bar, this was my best set of the night even though it didn’t really go perfectly. I talked to one blonde girl and was joking around with her immediately from after asking what her name was. She seemed funny and we were vibing pretty well at the bar. She and her friend got drinks and then I followed her back to the middle of the bar area where I got her isolated. We got into comfort a bit and I was throwing hoops at her to jump through. She answered all my questions seriously so I knew she was attracted. I was escalating kino and things were going pretty well, it got kind of sexualized. Then her friend came over and whispered something in her ear. Right after she asked for my name, and I told her. Then I couldn’t remember hers. She left after that. So that was disappointing that it stalled out like that but forgetting her name was kind of a mistake. Maybe I lost my state a bit and she saw hesitation when I forgot it, or neediness/ nervousness that she would leave. I think I just have to develop the ability to bring positive emotions from within myself in a stronger way. That could help me with reactivity in these situations.

               After that I did another 2 set in the downer and it was going pretty well, we got into some interesting discussions and I was incorporated into the conversation as if I was their friend seamlessly. It was trippy how easily it opened. After a while though one of the girls said they wanted to go talk to their other friends and left with her.

               I tried to go back to the Walrus after that but the two sets I opened just failed badly. I had been out for only an hour and a half but felt over it, partially because of the lack of people out on a Wednesday. I drove home.

Thoughts/SP:

-        I have to stop relying on women for my emotions so that I can stay in state for longer periods of time

-        Work on not losing hooked sets, maybe I should stick with my strengths in keeping interest, ie: being goofy and making girls laugh

-        Get better at mixed sets

-        Overall going out alone was really interesting and a lot more self-motivated, you have to just hammer away at approaching and sets because there are no wings for you to go join or chode out with.

               

FR: Back to the Basics

Logistics: Thursday October 3^rd, Friday October 4^th,

Wings: Flow, Blader

Locations: The Tavern, Clerys, The Minibar, Whiskeys

Thursday:

            I feel it all coming back to me. It's like muscle memory or something. The progress I’m making is quicker than the time it took to first learn it. Once a pua… lol. Anyway Friday night went like this.

            I met up with Flow at his place. We hopped in a cab and went to the Tavern, the venue where we spent Thursday sarging. We walked in the venue and began running set after set. I can’t recount all of them, but I’ll note a few that come to mind. I walked into the main area of the bar and went into a mixed set with two girls and a guy. I started talking to one of the girls for a bit. Things were going well, the set hooked and I was getting laughs. She seemed into it, I opened direct and it worked fairly well. I was trying to make her laugh and DHV etc. I stayed in set for about 10 minutes until I asked her what her stripper name was. In this situation that was a push to far. She left uncomfortably. I should have calibrated to her comfort level better, but it’s hard to make a conversation sexual when things that small make a girl uncomfortable. It’s something I have to account for.

            I opened a two set of girls as my first approach. One of the girls was actually pretty cute, and it probably seemed obvious that I was targeting her. I was talking to her and her friend and things were going smoothly until a guy walked up and sort of grabbed the girl I was talking to. He started hugging her and pulling her close to him in a way that seemed like he was a friend of hers trying to amog me, not a boyfriend. This is an extremely potent amog technique because I can’t really do shit when I’m standing there trying to counter him touching her. I mean I just took the blow out and left. I tried to befriend him but it would have been awkward for me to keep looking at them and shit so it was hopeless.

            Flow and I met up and tried to do sets together. I opened a 4 set of girls and Flow went in to wing a minute after. Things were going well until the conversation seemed to stall out with the girl I opened. She was acting bored until she left to go to the bathroom, leaving Flow and I with the other 3. I tried to transition into a conversation with another member of the group, but that couldn’t hook and they all left. This was sort a recurring element in the sets we did all night. The girls we opened kept running away a bit after we hooked, we just couldn’t keep interest. This is a SP I need to break through clearly. I’m going to try adding more chick crack, or lovable asshole stuff from Gambler. That stuff always killed it for me in the past.

            Flow opened a set of some very attractive girls in the back of the bar at one point. I went up to wing only to overhear an AMOG walking in to blow Flow out. He was scary looking and told Flow “they aren’t interested”. He looked mortified and we discussed how to combat that after. We decided to disqualify ourselves from the amog/group with something like “don’t worry I’m gay”, which could counter amogging solidly. I actually incorporated that into one of Friday night’s sets and it seemed to work well. More on that in a bit.

            I opened another set in the Tavern that just wouldn’t hook. I was really trying to hook this one and didn’t want to eject from any of the sets all night to get as much experience as possible from them. I walked up to a two set of girls and opened the blonde one telling her she reminded me of a Swedish girl. Her Asian friend immediately hugged her and they were pivoting around while I was trying to hook. They kept shit testing me. They blonde told me the Asian girl was from the Philippines and I said I speak a little Chinese, and then she called me racist, which I assume was a shit test. I tried to ignore it but the eventually pivoted into a larger group and I was locked out. I don’t know how to interact with girls when you try to talk to them and they start hugging and looking scared. This is something to mess with though, because girls seem to do it all the time.

            Though I know I did at least 5 more sets, the memories of them are hazy, but I remember most of them went the same. I hooked for a bit until they got bored and ran away. I need to be more interesting to keep their attention. Next time I will throw in more chick crack and try to break rapport. Going with the conversation in a group creates no tension and things kept stalling out.

            Later Flow and I were outside the venue looking for sets to open outside, where things were less hectic. Flow spotted a two set seated on a bench and I went to open. I tried to open with a technique I’ve been using back home that has been working decently well. Basically I walk into the set super high energy and say some shit like “WHATS UPPPPP”. I opened with that and they started giggling. After some shit testing they seemed into talking to me. I passed their tests well enough that when Flow came in they were hooked with both of us. We got them talking about their lives and interests, and got into a group conversation. I kept trying to break it up so that Flow was able to isolate one girl and I was able to focus on the other, but every time I tried it continued as a group conversation. Flow and I agreed to make sure we break it up more obviously next time we get into a solid 2 set. Flow number closed one of the girls and I was trying to pull to an “afterparty” at Flows place since I am leaving town tomorrow and won’t have time for any day twos. The girls declined, but we still learned a lot from the set over all.

Friday:

            I met up with Flow, Blader, and Kingmelons was with us. He doesn’t game anymore so he’s not listed as a wing, but an honorable mention nonetheless. We waded through two houseparties with terrible ratios before we said fuck it and went out to the bars. The first place that we gamed was Whiskeys.

            We walked in and did a quick loop, not really seeing any talent. The horrible ratio seemed to be following us around like a black cloud. I opened a 5 set I think with 4 girls in it. I opened naturally with hey whats up or something. Things went well but the conversation began stalling out once again. Flow showed up with Blader and I tried to pull them in, but they were in a corner so it was not going to be possible to get all of us into the conversation. After some hard stalling out we ejected or got blown out I’m not sure. I am unsure of what happened exactly. We decided to hit up the Minibar since we couldn’t get into Storyville because we were dressed to casual.

            On the way to Minibar a group of girls was walking quicker than us. I turned around and said there’s four of you and four of us omg its destiny. A short girl in the group was not having it and she resisted everything I said. I tried to tell her that I was harmless jokingly but that made her more upset I think. Blader was actually doing decently with the back two but once we got to minibar they weren’t waiting up for us and scurried away. Perhaps I should commit more to moving sets instead of just giving up, or maybe find a new tactic for changing girls frames who are not receptive.

            Minibar was cool but dead. Blader opened a 4 set of all girls sitting at a booth. I walked up with Flow trying to wing but we ended up just standing there since there were no seats, and I decided we were doing more harm then good. So I didn’t do any more approaches there even though I should have. I ended up just bullshitting with KingMelonz.

            We wandered to Clery’s and once again there was a horrid amount of guys. It just wasn’t our night I guess. However, a good pua should be able to prevail even with bad logistics. I remember finding nothing until we went to the basement, where Flow approached a 2 set of girls. I walked in to wing shortly afterward. They seemed bored or upset, I don’t really know why but their energy was low. I have to learn how to change a girl’s frame/pull her into mine again, I used to kill at that. An amog walked in and asked one of the seated girls how many guys had come up to them that night. He said it was funny to see how much they were getting hit on. I turned to him and disqualified myself using the “its ok I’m gay line”. That actually worked splendidly, he got blown out and left. Unfortunately while I was dealing with the amog, friends of the two girls Flow opened came and pulled them away. Dealing with the friend distraction is something I have to work on.

            The last set of the night was pretty much going to fail no matter what, but at least it was funny. I walked up to four girls hailing a taxi outside Clery’s, and told them they were cute. One of the girls immediately looked at me and asked if I was 12. I said no I’m 11. Then she said I don’t like 11 year olds and walked with her friends down the street. Blader came in to try and salvage it but there was no saving this lol. Maybe In cases like this making a shit test more ridiculous is not the way to go. I’ll try ignoring this question and changing the subject next time.

Thoughts/SP:

-       1 I have to remember how to pull a girl into my frame to change her emotional state. This will allow me to pull easier by bringing them into a better mentality

-       2 I need to ignore shit tests that are really obvious on some occasions, intensifying in this case plays into their frame

-       3 Throwing in more chick crack and playful asshole Gambler material will make the conversation stay interesting, things have been stalling out to easily.

-       4 My wings and I need to hype the shit out of the pull location

-       5 I need to learn to control the friends coming in to pull people away. Maybe being more interesting will help take care of that

FR: Crash and Burn

Logistics:

Wednesday October 3rd 2013
Location: Storyville
Wings: Flow

 I walked up to storyville tired as fuck. I was sleepy from taking the redeye back home to Boston, but I was psyched to chill with Flow again since it had been a long time since we had gamed. Flow is getting way more into it and its cool to see him progressing. It’s also interesting to compare my current AFC level to his current rAFC level.  We both have lots of work to do.

 Anyway we walked up to the venue and realized it was 20 dollars to get in. We decided to ask some of the people who had been inside if it was worth it to go in, and this also provided us with sets to open to get in state. Although I never really got in state the whole night unfortunately. Flow opened the first set and asked how it was in if it was worth going in. It was a mixed set with one guy and one girl. They told us we should go in.

 I opened the next one outside since we wanted more opinions. This set was also mixed with 2 girls and a guy. 2 of them told us not to pay and one was convincing us to go inside. This set was going well though and the group was beginning to chill with us and it hooked pretty nicely. We decided to pay the 20 dollars to not be bored and get some opening experience in.

 The second we walked in Flow was amped to get in set. He def pushes me hard to open. We both looped around the venue looking for approaches. We me at the opposite end without any progress. Flow charged the first set. He opened 2 cougars and I came in about a minute after. Flows girl was alright and he seemed to be doing well. Mine was an HB3/4 so I was just running interference. When Flows girl left I started ignoring mine and went to chill with flow more. She was not my type at all.

I tried to open the next set. As I recall there were two girls at the bar. I went direct and tried to open them whilst they were facing away from me. I opened direct and one looked at me for about half the time I was in set. The other didn’t pay attention to me at all really. I should have been more assertive in getting her friends attention perhaps, but in the moment I was not thinking clearly. I can’t remember if I walked away or they did, but that set was bad.

After that we talked to the second set we opened that night for a while. They were Albanians, and all funny people. They invited us to a lounge party on Friday that we are going to check out probably. Flow got the number of the one cute girl in the set, and I was talking to her friends for a while. Afterward we decided to get back at it.

I tried to open a set moving toward me. It was a set of two cute girls, I tried to open and they kept walking. I probably should have tried harder to follow them or to stop them.

Then I approached a girl by herself and started talking for a bit. I tried to plow through for a while, but she told me she was with someone and left to go see them after a couple of minutes. That one went badly, but I was glad that I didn’t eject to early because I felt that I had been struggling with that.

Flow and I left the club a bit later. I felt that I was out of practice and was trying to understand why things went so badly for me. Flow was understanding and we had some good discussions on the way back to his place.

Thoughts/SP:

I can’t eject from sets to early, that really limits the experience I’m getting from each approach. The mixed sets we did were fine, and I would like to practice mixed set gaming more. I also felt like getting in state was not happening for me, probably because I was tired and not used to gaming in an environment with blaring music. The game I’ve been running back in my home town in Boulder has been mostly in places that are more laid back. It is important that I learn to speak up and command attention in places where it is hard to focus. And I have to do more sets! I was getting some serious AA since I was gaming fairly sober. Perhaps substance dependance is hurting my game as well.

Back in Action

Well it’s been a year and a half since my last post. I am back in this shit full force as of now. My relationship has been on a steady decline since May and as of now we are no longer speaking. I am extremely motivated to move on from her and find another girlfriend or perhaps just a casual arrangement. Because of this I am going to start blogging about my excursions once again. All you noobies and pros out there should send any advice my way if you are willing to share. The path to mpua is long and I am back at the beginner level now. It’s going to be difficult to develop my skills again but I am determined. When I got into that relationship with my ex I learned a lot about myself. One thing that I realized is that if you want to prevent a relationship from being a ticking time bomb as soon as it begins, you have to be selecting your woman from abundance. Cultivating a rotation will be entertaining and will allow me to have that non reactive mentality. So without further ado, I will begin spewing semi-regular field reports at you semi-interested readers.