ChiliIrishHammock24

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active waterproof feature. Cool thing, or the coolest thing? As I am not in the market for a phone, I'm not sure how many other phones are waterproof as well, but texting in the pool sounds amazing. It's always a 30 seconds process of wiping my hands completely dry before checking my texts every 10 minutes in the pool.

I asked a high-school favor of a mutual friend of ours. This girl Jess, whom I have been friends with since we were kids, met Jasmine at that party last week. Her and Jasmine hit it off and they now text each other. Jess agreed to do some recon for me and text Jazzy tomorrow asking what is going on with the two of us, and try to give me a damn clue as to what Jazzy is thinking. I honestly have no idea at this point, but it's driving me nuts. Also, my buddy just invited me to the Sox game tomorrow. I need to leave the station at 3:15 tomorrow, about 15 mins before Jasmine would arrive. DukeNukeEm, Greg, and anyone else that condones freezing her out will enjoy that. Now I won't even SEE her at work tomorrow at all! That could really get her thinking about me if she ends up being bored at work without me to text and look at.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 08:30 PM) I put girls on ice literally all the time. I hate texting though, I cannot remember the last time I initiated some text relay with anyone other than my mother. Chillhead, if I could impart one little piece of wisdom on you is that once you've got a girl who claims to be willing to have sex with you but "just not tonight", she either wants you to be aggressive in that moment and take it (if you place a lot of value in your freedom avoid this, a legally dubious idea) or, more likely, she's playing a game. The game is pretty simple, back the f*** off and make her come to you. Be busy, or at least claim to be, next time she wants to do something. Keep her at arms length a little. Engage her? sure. Talk to her? Duh. But lay off for a little bit. She wants to make sure you aren't going to be coming on too strong, which of course you f***ing did (lol). You win the game about a week later when she's literally begging for it and you're in a position of power to govern the relationship going forward. Gaaah, see the irratating part here is that I only came on strong because I got fooled by the carnie! Like I've said I had no interest in asking her out. Not that I wouldn't WANT to date her eventually, but that was not even a thought in my head until she mentioned "this is my boyfriend" to the carnie, which completely threw me off and I obviously misinterpreted what she was doing when she said that. I never meant to ask her out, I just did it because I thought she was expecting it. Now, unless you mean even leaving a rose on her car that said "Have a great day!", is also coming on too strong, then fine, I'll cop to that one as a mistake, but like I said, I asked for reassurances from female friends before I went through with it, and they all loved it, so maybe we all messed up on that one in some way. Anyway, it's now 23 hours of isolation. lol. This next update is going to sound really dumb and childish, but f*** it, it's the technological age we live in, and we are both young adults..... A couple hours ago she tweeted "Anyone want to play with me?". At the moment I was talking to one of my roommates, and she told me I should *favorite* the tweet, but not reply to it. Basically acknowledging that I saw that she wanted to hang out with someone, but it wasn't important enough for me to text her or ask to hang out. Sounded kind of dickish to me, but I trust her and she was adamant about this, so I begrudgingly went ahead with it. Not sure what the result of that will be. 3 hours later, it hasn't warranted a text or anything, so who knows.

QUOTE (Tuna @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:44 PM) You can't go from one extreme to the other, it will make you look like a complete asshole. Be nice, but not overly nice. Don't ask her out or mention what you did for her. Don't go out of your way to be a jerk and don't go out of your way to be nice. Walk that line for a week or two and see how it goes. Well, she texted me this morning and I have yet to reply. It's been about 20 hours now since I texted her, which is a record for us, as silly as that sounds.

We have about 6 guys that I think NEED to be traded in the next 10 days. We better be making at least 3 trades.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 12:33 AM) Yes I think you have no choice but to ignore her even with time running out. Maybe if you ignore her all the way til the day or two you go back to school, then see if the time is right for a final "date" of some kind. The rose on the car was a killer. I wonder if any of those female friends who condoned that secretly want you. Well avoiding her until then will be nearly impossible, considering we work together 5 days a week. That would be way too obvious and s***ty of me to not even speak to her at work. Texting, however, could be where I "make my point". And no, I am pretty sure none of those female friends secretly want me. lol. I would absolutely take any of those 3, they are beautiful girls, but no, they genuinely though it was adorable and figured she would be smitten by it. Hell, I thought the same thing, really.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 11:29 PM) Chilihead, that is one crazy story. I think you are already aware of what I'm going to say. This ship has sailed. The card thing was a big big mistake. You hadn't even had sex yet. I can't believe the female friends of yours encouraged you. Like you said earlier, the fact you rejected her the first night when you wanted to watch the Blackhawks game was a big plus in your corner. You played that perfectly. Of course you weren't 'playing' anything, you wanted to watch the Hawks. Giving her the card took away the flirtatious stuff, took away everything cause it was way too early. I loved your long post. It was revealing and I'm sure you are already aware of what I'm saying, that it's over. Even if you talk it out, the magic is gone. Only way you can POSSIBLY get her back is to get her wanting you again. You need another Blackhawk night moment, but I can't for the life of me figure out how you can blow her off when she now thinks you want her as a GF. Oh well. I'd completely ignore her starting NOW and see if that works. I don't think a meeting for coffee will help at all. So you advocate playing the "hard to get" phase now? It's something I'd definitely do if I have more time, but with 3-4 weeks left at home, I am thinking I need keep showing that I'm interested. I really think this time table is really hurting me more than anything else because I can't afford to slow play this like I normally do. My last "Jazmine" I slowplayed for 2+ years before I had her WILD, texting me dirty things and trying to come home with me after work. Of course I never pulled an adorable move like the rose on her car either, so maybe there is something to that.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 04:02 PM) Joe...sllloooooowwwww doooooowwwwnnnn. You frightened her and your silly friends should have told you not to do that thing with the card. That was weird. If I were you I'd ask her to have coffee with you, and assuming she says yes, leave her be until you actually meet up with her. No texts or weird looks. Then when you meet her, just tell her it was all a misunderstanding, you were stupid, and you didn't mean to pressure her. Tell her you still like spending time with her, but you want to slow things down and dial them back a bit. You'd like to know her thoughts on that. Then regardless of what she says, just leave it be until she slowly starts easing back to where you guys were before the whole party and carnival. If she's really interested, she'll come back...if not, it wasn't going to go anywhere anyways. How old are the two of you? She's 18, will be 19 in September. I just turned 23 a couple weeks ago. And I get the slowing down thing, like I said, I too am not ready to date this girl either, I just didn't want to disappoint her, so I rushed myself in to it for her benefit. Obviously I f***ed up because I read that situation wrong. I did text her a couple days ago telling her what happened, and how I messed up and I told her I am sorry for misreading in to it. I've been very openly sorry about what happened, and I am 100% ready to be back to normal. She, however, is the one who seems to be still stuck or "freightened" as you put it. Our texting is very far and few between, maybe 10-15 texts a day, and it's because I have to start every conversation. A large part of me wants to just "ignore" her in a way so it doesn't sound like I am being pushy, but the other part of me has overheard her telling someone she loves when guys give her attention, so I don't want her to think I no longer care. It's tough. And another factoid I should mention is that I go back to college in 3-4 weeks. It's the reason I need to LOCK THIS s*** DOWN before I go away, because once I am 3 hours away, it will be a miracle if I can get her on board then. So I am thinking I really got about 2 weeks here to seal the deal before she will start telling herself "Ah, well he is leaving anyway, it's not worth it". The only good news here is that I graduate in December, so it will only be 4 months away, and my best friend has already told her that he will drive her down for a weekend whenever she wants to see me and party and whatnot.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 08:21 AM) You're making a mistake. I hate politics.

Ahh, once again I find myself in this thread for unhappy reasons. Last time it was a b**** named Jazmine who I wanted real bad one summer, she denied, then she wanted me real bad the next summer, I denied. Then, unexpectedly, she moved to New Mexico while I was at school with her *NEW* boyfriend of a couple months. She's a pretty dumb girl. That's what I get for dating a girl 2 years younger than me maybe? Oh wait. Now the *NEW* girl for me is named....wait for it.....Jasmine. With an S, not a Z. And she is how old....??.....4 years younger! Here we go again. This relationship actually started off pretty fast and very well. She works at the place I am interning at this summer. I actually didn't realize she was so young, she looks and acts my age. After I realized I was interested in her, at least superficially, I started staying later at work so we could hang out in the studio for 2 hours a day. We ended up flirting a LOT from across the room, while the show was going on. Constantly looking up at each other for reactions to stuff and smiling uncontrollably. Then at some point she got my number from someone at work, and texted me that she had a friend back out on her for a weekend show she hosts, and asked if I wanted to sit in the studio with her. Her reasoning was because of how funny I am, an obvious flirting comment. The Hawks were playing that night in the Stanley Cup Finals, so naturally I declined and didn't hang w/ her. Maybe this worked to my advantage, because then she started texting me randomly, and especially during the 2-hour show we are both a part of in the afternoon (she does traffic and weather, I help produce). We then began texting I'd say every single day. Then one weekend while my parents were out of town, I got the balls enough to ask her if she wanted to come over and dive in to Breaking Bad. It's my favorite show, I've mentioned how great it is to her multiple times, it was kind of an inside joke at this point. She agreed. I then invite her to spend the night if she soo choose to. She liked that idea. So on the first ever night we saw each other outside of work, and after knowing each other for maybe 2 weeks, we slept together in my bed. Now, I mean that in the most innocent sense. We SLEPT. No sex, no touching, no kissing, nothing. I didn't want to pull any moves this early, and I didn't want to scare her. Fast forward 5 days and 2 more "hang outs" later, and we go to a friend's house for a party. She is underage, but we both got pretty drunk. I already locked down a bedroom at my friends house to crash, and she was down for it. After some rather "aggressive" make-out sessions, that including both of us getting handfuls of....each other....we once again slept together. She repeated to me many times, "I really wish we could f*** tonight. I want to so bad, but I don't want our first time to be when I'm wasted. But don't worry, we will have sex soon". I said fine, it wasn't a big deal to me. That was last Thursday. Flash forward to this week. We go to the Carnival on Wednesday night. We are walking around meeting all of her friends, she is introducing me to them all, some of them are whispering in her ear like "this is the guy?" type stuff, which makes me think she has told her friends obviously. Then, we walk past a carnie that starts yelling stuff to us. She turns around and engages. He asks who I am, she says "This is my boyfriend". So right there, I am taken aback. I didn't realize we were doing that. I didn't know she thought we were dating. Immediately in my head I get nervous that I need to apparently "formally" ask her to date because she clearly thinks we are. This is where I get in to trouble. So for the entire week I had been planning this adorable idea of going to surprise her at her other work (dessert/deli restaurant), and then leaving a single rose on her windshield that said "HAVE A GREAT DAY!" on the little note. I should have stuck w/ that idea. Instead, because of this "this is my boyfriend" revelation at the Carnival, I decided to switch up the card and instead have it say "Be my girlfriend?" with 2 check boxes that said "YES" or "HELLA YES". It's an inside joke w/ us, and the boxes were obviously a joke to pretend we middle school crushes. After clearing it with multiple female friends of mine, I went ahead w/ the plan on Thursday, yesterday. The plan backfired. She sent me a text thanking me for the rose, but said she is not sure about the dating part. Said she must have been sending me mixed signals. I explained to her the thing w/ the Carnie and how it shocked me, which is why I changed the card around. She explained she did it only to get the carnie off her back. Makes sense, I just didn't put 2 and 2 together. f***ing idiot. So now I feel like I just got rejected, when I was only doing it because I thought she would be mad if I didn't do it. So she forced a hand I didn't want to play, and now I look like the idiot. f***ing s***. So the rest of the day at work yesterday when she arrived was awkward, then today at work it was awkward. I mean, we can't even make eye contact, our texting conversations suck, and it has all gone to hell in 48 hours. My parents are currently out of town again, and I had planned for her to stay at least one of these nights, but now it is looking like she won't come at all. All her texts are 1 word answers that end the chat. I have to keep inventing new things to talk about, she'll reply, but they won't take the conversation anywhere. It's f***ing stressful. Anyway, just wanted to rant. I'm in a s*** mood now, probably won't text her tomorrow unless she texts me first. I can't believe and incredibly sweet gesture that all my female friends loved and gushed over has now f***ed things up for me. I can't figure this one out. How do you go from heavy making out, grabbing each other, non-stop texting and sleeping together, promises of sex, to "I'm not sure right now" about dating. I'll hang up and listen to your replies. tl;dr version - I didn't want to ask a girl to be my girlfriend, misread a signal, asked a girl to date out of guilt, got rejected, now I look like the dumb one, relationship is heavy danger.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 19, 2013 -> 11:32 AM) You weren't interested in the exceptional House of Cards? Nope.

It does honestly feel like Kyle Beach was drafted 15 years ago.

OitNB is a comedy by the creator of Weeds? And Jason Biggs and Laura Prepon are on it? Hell yeah, I'm in. Pretty cool that Netflix has an original show I am interested in. That's convenient.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jul 15, 2013 -> 12:32 AM) What does another prospect having a crappy season have to do with Hawkins? Starling might not be any good either. The problem with Hawkins is there is no precedent for a player sucking as pathetically as him to then turn it around. He's overmatched and it's not a good sign. Sure, there's hope, but it's sickening to see a player go through this. By "sucking as pathetically as him" you mean in terms to K rate. He is doing other things well, and other things NOT historically bad. Is his season encouraging? No. Are parts of his game this season encouraging? Sure. Do we give up on him at age 19 in his 1st full season in pro ball? f*** NO.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jul 14, 2013 -> 10:12 PM) I have no idea, what's the relevance? EDIT: But to attempt to actually give you a name, Russell Branyan had a 33% K-rate in the minors. Also, here is a real long article on the subject.... http://www.minorleagueball.com/2011/4/22/2...-league-k-rates

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 14, 2013 -> 09:58 PM) Has there ever been a player that has K'd at his rate that has gone on to have a successful career in MLB? I have no idea, what's the relevance? EDIT: But to attempt to actually give you a name, Russell Branyan had a 33% K-rate in the minors.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 14, 2013 -> 09:16 PM) NHL 14 makes me want to get a new gaming system. Really? I skipped '13 after playing that demo. I'm not sure yet if I am getting '14. Kind of depends if I make any income this summer.

My god, people are so quick to declare every prospect a bust. He may not be playing as welll as we would want our #13 overall pick to play, but my god, let's wait until he is 24 years old and still not in AA yet until he write him off.

Maybe it has already been discussed, but if Jacobs was 11 on the Red Sox prospect list, he must be a top 10 guy in ours right? Somewhere around 8-10?

My girl just turned 12 years old last week, and she is starting to show it. Looks like bad hips, because it's a big struggle for her to get up, and anytime you tell her to sit, her face strains. She is a healthy size, she just seems to be weakening. Now today, she started to walk w/ a limp on her front paw. I think it may just be matted hair caught in between her pads, it's happened before, so hopefully she's fine in the next day or two. It's weird to think I've now lived with our current dog longer than our first dog. First dog died at 14 years old when I was 10. We got this dog when I was 11, and it's been 12 years now. Not looking forward to dealing w/ another death of a family dog.

Came to this thread for 7/10 Sox prospect talk. Left disappointed.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jul 10, 2013 -> 02:44 AM) Hard to create a sequel to a game that has 20ish possible endings I wouldn't assume it to be a continuation of this story....

Mother of god, the new GTA V trailer makes me more excited than anything previously...... Check out IGN's video where they pause and talk about different parts of the trailer. Helps you notice subtle nuances. http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/09/wha...ameplay-trailer

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 9, 2013 -> 01:24 PM) I think . That's too easy though.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 8, 2013 -> 12:43 AM) Heavy Rain may be one of the most underrated games of all time. I still need to buy it, rented it before. I think Heavy Rain has by far had the best storyline of any game I've ever played. If they ever make a sequel, I am all over it. The only bad part was I was so obsessed with the story that I beat the entire game in 2 days over the summer. Probably about 14-15 hours.