WORLD OF RAWR

"Have you had any good matches lately?"

It would be awesome if this answer were "yes" more often, but it isn't. I'm more of an analytical mind, so I like to understand why things are as they are and work as they work. This ended up with some funny situations.

SCENARIO 1: "Hello, Mr. Bond"

There's a lot of things I'm willing to be wild about, but every kid knows about "stranger danger". The fact is that a meetup here is a physical thing and when I am meeting up with a person from this site, that I have never met before, where will have to travel a distance to meet each other and probably alone, there is no margin for mistrust, so I don't bother with it.

For the reasons, above, I wouldn't ever. I salute you, Mr. Bond, but if we are going to lock up, trust is a must. End of.

SCENARIO 2: Vaporized

SCENARIO 3: "Somewhere over the rainbow"

I swear it's the only time I ever find myself frustrated by not owning a car. I suppose planning could easily get around any transit issue, but then we go back to SCENARIO 2.

SCENARIO 4: You scare me

A lot of this stuff doesn't seem to matter even in terms of distance. There are four people in my city and hundreds - literal hundreds - within 60 miles of me and of those hundreds (plus four), I have met *one* from that radius and one from someone that actually lives several hundred miles away.

I don't even know.

I want to figure out a way to make this stuff happen more often, but until then, you can deal with my humorous writing about my frustrations because it doesn't and the gear I'm grabbing.

Oh wait, I didn't mention that, did I?

GRINDING GEARS (because I like creative titles and innuendo)

This month, I bought my first singlet. I plan on buying another one soon since I have a dash of extra cash on me. It should be equally fun and enjoyable to try on. I need to wear it more to break it in, but so far, it feels great when I wear the one I bought and I'm curious about what I'll look like when I get the other.

They are both solid servings of "Get yourself in shape, son", so the encouragement is nice.

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AND ONWARD.

One more thing

Thanks for putting things I can enjoy in my inbox from suggestions on what to buy to just encouragement to hang in there until we can meet up, I enjoy all of the messages I get and try to reply to all of them when I can. At least one of you [*cough* Scott *cough*] have moved out of just "hey we want to wrestle" to being more akin to friends and I'm enjoying every minute of that.

Keep it up.

Also, if you are writing me after reading this whether directly or via comment: (1) thank you, too. It's good to know that someone reads this stuff. It's long. (2) I like feedback, so write all you want to.

Take care, guys.

I have a goal of trying to meet up with more of you and do things and part of that goal involves clothing.

I'm giving myself a goal of getting a little gear every month for the next three to see how things go. I made my first move last week and have ordered my first singlet. I'm so very excited about getting it and trying it on. I'm also ordering a new jock. I've decided I like them and want another one or two.

That's pretty much it. Everything else is trying to meet up with people I will have fun with and keeping up with those of you I've already met.

I think I'm going to update the calendar for spur of the moment trips. Stay tuned for when I'll be in your area.

It's been a while since I've posted. All the normal reasons: work, life, blah blah blah.

That said, I've been okay. There's been a little bit of a slowdown here communication-wise, so hopefully all of you guys are doing okay, too.

In terms of what's going on this way: just life, I suppose. Got a couple of messages where people want to meet up or whatnot (not many, but some) and I'm figuring all of that out.

Can't decide if I want to be manhandled or fight. I feel in the mood for the former these days.

"Are you in a red car?"

That was the text I sent before finding the car and hopping in. From there, we headed to the meeting place and got ready to playfully wrestle for a bit.

As we rode out, he politely answered my onslaught of questions about everything from jobs to speedos. He had driven quite a way and in heavy traffic so he was a bit tired. Ever the trooper [J] came down anyway.

After a bit of talking, he wondered when we would start. I'm never one to go first in most things, so I explained myself. We talked about the rules and stripped down to speedos and, in my case, a new jock I had bought. [J] normally wrestles by pinfall which was new to me and so it went down 4-2.

He wanted me to add the following: "You got beat by a 50-year-old, out of shape man."

We chuckled about this and he suggested I work on upper body strength. To be fair to me, however, he's a bit heavier than I. That said, I knew that and I wrestled anyway and I wouldn't have done otherwise.

He asked what my favorite holds were. I have a number I want to try, but meh. I need to practice them and how will I do that? :P

Apparently, I also wear a jock well.

So went match number two. I wonder what will happen between now and the next one. I hope the answer isn't another six months in coming, though :P

I think between this entry and this one, I find myself generally wondering what to even do.

It's just hard to catch people where I live. I should move to a place upstate or on the West Coast or the UK where this stuff happens more often.

Anyway, I'm a week or so out from vacation and I will probably have free time to wrestle if I can meet up with someone. That said, I have about a snowball's chance in hell from what I can see of that happening.

I thought it might work better if I made mention of it beforehand, so: I'm heading to D.C. tomorrow and I'll be landing in the evening. If anyone in the area is up for a playful roll (and doesn't creep me out), we should meet up!

So recently, I've been in contact with some people and others have been in contact with me about trying to set things up. This usually ends up not working out because of some detail, but at least it is starting to happen.

Maybe with the summer coming up, more people will be free to hang out and do stuff. Recently, we've changed office buildings where I work, so I don't have the space to wrestle and I'm not networked with people that have mats and the like.

I've been checking through people in my area and messaging as new ones pop up and so on. It sort of prompts the question for me: *how long did you guys talk to a person on average before you could actually have a match*?

I've seen some places where it takes days and others where it takes years. I wonder if that is a location thing or what. Who knows, right?

Some days make me want to climb a wall. How are there like 30 people within 50 miles that I can't wrestle with?!

GAH!!!

In other news, I might have an upcoming vacation and a road trip sounds wonderful. I don't know how far I'd go or if I'd go at all, but I'm entertaining the thought right now.

I think this is the best way to describe this sort of thing. I've been in one match with one guy from here since I joined. I do talk to a lot more than one of you on here, thank goodness, but I really would like to wrestle again at some point.

It's just fun and when I'm not working (read: most weekends) I'd like to wrestle around a bit or just get to know you guys a bit better over coffee and so on. Other things in life are keeping me busy (work/art/japanese/etc), but I did join here to get to wrestle more and I want that still.

Blah.

Side note: being on work trips sucks because I can't set things up the way I want to as I have no free time. I was in DC last week and there are apparently a lot of wrestlers in the area from here, but I couldn't catch a break to meet anyone.

Blah x 2.