All The Thoughts That Make Doug Cool

My neck, my back….my neck and my back.

So I woke this morning with a crick in my neck. ‘Crick in my neck’ isn’t something I hear people say very often, ever in fact, so I’m going to include the definition in case you never do either.

Culmination of Differences

Ok, so the UK has quite a few differences than the US. The differences that have been most noticeable to me though are the social differences. I don’t have time to go into all of them right now but I’ll cover a few, and even toss a story in afterwards.

’09, Check! ’10, TBD.

Besides the partying my favourite part of the New Year is being able to look back on the previous year and seeing how much has changed.

I still recall this time last year deciding I needed to get out of the country and see more of the world, I wanted to work on an MMO and in general I needed to get a job. Fast forward a year and I’m living in Scotland, working on an MMO. When I first got my passport I wasn’t even sure where I was going to go with it or how I’d get there since I had no job. Sometime you gotta just decide what you want from life and move towards it even if you don’t know exactly how you’re going to get there. I hit all my career goals for the year and knocked my relationship goals out the park too.

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Off to Glasgow

I’m currently on a bus to Glasgow. Taking this trip reminded me of the awesomeness of going somewhere new. I’m not really sure why going new places appeals to me so much. I get a mini rush of adrenaline and excitement whenever I go somewhere new and uncharted, well uncharted for me atleast.

So Far Paris has Impressed Me

So far paris has proved it’s chock full of cute and incredibly attractive women, with style and a sense of fashion, which is hot. The sucky part is I couldn’t really talk to one if I tried because I know absolutly no French….which currently is annoying the hell out of me. Paris is now on my list of places to live, or atleast meet women from, and French is now on my list of languages to learn.

I Needed to Blog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKaCea4apHY

I’m definitly feeling this. Sometimes you just need to write, or express, or create, or just spew out ideas. It’s been a while since I’ve done some idea spewing, mainly because I keep wanting to plan something out and write something interesting….but that takes time & effort that I haven’t felt like putting into blogging lately. So I’m going to try to get back into writing small un-important possibly unteresting posts for a while.

I’m Apparently a Homewrecker

Wow, so apparently I wreck relationships in Dundee. Atleast that’s what one would assume based on my first weekend out in Dundee.

Ok the story starts with me and my new roommate going out to a pub. It’s semi-fun, we don’t really meet anyone but we have some beers and good conversation. We end up leaving the pub and heading to a nightclub because the place closes at 12 and the nightclubs are open till 3.

A Night Out with the Scots.

Ok so I finally had a chance to go out and see the nightlife of Dundee. It was interesting.

To start off I meet my co-worker Ayeesha at a pub called ‘The Bond’ on thier karaoke night. Turns out she’s an awesome singer and lots of folks there knew her already from her singing on previous nights. It was fun. Tried some local drinks and ended our time there by downing a Guiness.

Scotland bound!

Ok I’m gonna make this one short since I need to be heading to bed in order to somewhat negate the effects of jetlag. It’s currently 7pm in Austin which makes it 1am here(see the need for me to already be in bed). Before I head off just wanted to capture some thoughts of the day.

Just a Tweet away…

A friend blogged about this and I had to share it. It reminded me of a conversation I’d had. Except it was more like:
“Why are you ignoring me?”
“What do you mean, I’m talking to you right now.”
“Yeah but I sent you a Facebook comment like 2 days ago and you didn’t answer me.”
“Because I saw you 5 minutes later and told you in person!”
“Yeah but you should still answer it on Facebook.”
“…..*sigh*…..”