Busy busy

I have succeeded in making myself busy on weekends. I don’t know if that Improv class was the kicker that did it, but this seems to be the first free time I have after the game on Friday.
I use CIBC for my banking, There is one two blocks from where I live, but I consider it a joke. I have never seen it open. In theory it is a working branch, but the hours it is open are during normal work hours, and never on the weekend. So I consider it a vacant store, except for it’s instant teller. Instead I go to one near where I used to live. It’s a friendly place and the financial advisor I see once or twice a year still recognizes me. I did the transactions I needed, then went home. I should have enough to put a serious dent in the amount of RRSPs I can buy. With maybe a thousand dollar difference, which I’m not going to worry about. As long as I don’t allow it to grow too much, I should be able to kill it eventually. (Or is this how deficit spending starts.) If I start earning more it will help more later.
After that I did a bit of personal shopping. Then I caught up with some computer work I needed to do. I still need to figure out what to do for the D&D game next Friday. I should develop the ancient history of a long forgotten desert empire. Or I could follow my favorite phrase: “Throw monsters at the problem.” The problem is usually the players. Since combat is a huge time suck, it lets me stall the game. And the players get a steady supply of XP, which they rarely complain about.
In the evening I went to New City. I’m starting to enjoy that bar more and more. Since I am parasitic on Jake, I get to meet his friends, and it has helped me expand my social circle more. Sarah was there, and I danced with her a bit. I guess my D&D playing doesn’t make me a total pariah. She has an interesting way of dancing, which involves keeping her eyes shut most of the time. I got to know Shay and his friend Morgan. Both work for a tech support company called Convergys. (Sounds familiar.) Shay is also a Mac person who plays Halo on the Xbox. So we got geeky. I left at around 11:30 so I could get up early the next day.
Sunday morning run was 26km. It took about two and a half hours. Then I went to a brunch at around noon. I tried to eat more protein than carbohydrates this time. I’ve been getting sleepy from previous ones, so I’m hoping this helps. Note: I don’t believe in the Atkins diet. If you want to lose weight, exercise. If you can’t drink orange juice, that’s just wrong.
Then after the brunch, I finished reading the newspaper, and then it was off to the Rapid Fire Theater general meeting. I volunteer for this group of improvisers at a casino, giving them a LOT of money. This allows me to attend their annual meeting. I enjoy their works and it’s cool to hang out with a bunch of actors. Especially at a semi-serious meeting. They all want to be the center of attention so there are a lot of… “antics”. The race to see who can forward a motion first and who can second it is quite fierce. Then there is free food afterwords.
By now it was a bit past six. So I was off to the speed dating. This event only allowed men over six feet tall to come in. Unfortunately the age limit was under 38. Mein godt! The women there were a lot older than me. They weren’t all as attractive as the people organizing it had tempted me with. But I still feel good about this one. I was able to say I did NOT want to meet many people. It felt empowering that I got to reject people instead of it happening the other way around. There was one girl there that I did enjoy, who was about my age. I would like to think we connected, but my track record isn’t that good.
I talked to the organizers after. Apparently men usually want to meet most of the women they interview. Whereas the women would pick maybe one or two men. What does that say about them.