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Anoche

So last night happened because of 10 minutes.  Anoche is Spanish for last night.  I was just going to write 'last night' but I figured I would switch things up and use the Spanish word for last night instead of just titling this post last night.

Anyways... 10 minutes.

That's all it took.  10 minutes longer for me to get to the yoga place.  If I had been there 10 minutes earlier... I would have gone to yoga instead.  But I didn't go to yoga.  Because I was 10 extra minutes at the Xfinity store switching my Comcast stuff over.  My bill is now half what it was though, which is pretty sweet.  My mom had EVERY channel on the planet.  I also got a new modem because my old one kept cutting in and out and the service guy was just like "Oh yeah, that's because you've got the old modem, I'll hook you up with a new one and that will stop."  So far the internet has been significantly better since I hooked it up (or he hooked me up)!  It seems faster too.  I still have to connect the new boxes to the TV though.  I got a DVR fancy one for downstairs and just a regular little itty bitty one for upstairs.

Although maybe I wasn't 10 extra minutes at Comcast.  Maybe I was 10 extra minutes at Old Navy getting a new belt.  Which, by the way, I got a super good deal on a belt!  It was mispriced.  But they gave me the price anyways!  I was like... Well you can just charge me what it's really supposed to cost.  And the cashier lady was like... No no, I'll honor it.  I'm like... Wow.  Really?  And she's like yes... It's okay.

I'm a fan of Old Navy.  I like their style.

My next purchase will be a new iPhone.  I'm still backing up voicemails.  Just chopping away a couple a day.

Who knows... Maybe the 10 minutes came from me getting home after work and taking 10 extra minutes to eat lunch.

Wherever that 10 minutes came from... It changed my path in life for last night.

See, I was going to go to yoga, and then come home.  Instead, when I got to yoga the door was locked.  The door isn't usually locked.  But if there's no one at the front desk they lock it so that you can leave but can't get back in.

Well instead I went on a run.  I got iced tea at place in Conshohocken that I've never been.  After the run I went to Conshy brewing.  I hung out outside on the back deck and had a beer while chatting with these two girls that I'd actually seen ride by on their bikes while sipping my tea.  We talked for a good hour.  It was nice.  Seriously... Just being able to talk to people in person is so much better than the whole online dating thing.  Also beer makes things better.

If it weren't for alcohol... There would be a lot more single people on this planet I'm guessing.  I feel like it just makes it so much easier to go somewhere and talk to strangers with alcohol.  Well... Not for me.  Heck.  I'll talk to anyone!  I'm a yapper.  I'll sit there and yap your ear off.  But most people are standoffish.  It's hard to get people to engage in conversations when you have no history with them.  But when there's booze?  Well heck... People will definitely be more likely to converse with you.  Yay social lubricant!

After the two girls left I was at the bar contemplating food.  Then I started chatting with this guy named Gilbert.  He's from Cali.  We connected over the Cali connection because I'm also from Cali.  He then invited me back to his table to meet his soon to be wife and some other friends.  So we all sat there talking.  Turns out him and his wife moved here from Cali to work for David's Bridal headquarters.... to rebrand.  SO they are graphic design people.  They are helping to launch some full rebranding of David's Bridal.  Or something like that.  I don't know the details.

They met in grad school in LA.  She's from Chicago.  Anyways... they live in Conshy now.  Anyways so I decided to hang out with them for the night.  I thought what the heck, it's Friday night.  So, I went with them to a second place and we shared a bottle of wine between all of us and ordered some pizza.  Then we went back to their apartment and went out by the pool to enjoy the evening.  By that time there were only 4 of us.  So it was myself, Gilbert and his soon to be wife Jody, and this guy Alex.

Not a bad evening.  We're all supposed to hang out again.

10 minutes late to yoga.

Of course all the things I WAS going to do after yoga, I'm now going to do today... SO now my whole weekend is changed I guess.  So really you could argue that my whole path in life is changed.

I enjoyed the conversation with the two girls that I was talking to first at Conshohocken Brewing but I didn't get their contact info.  I gave them my Facebook and they are supposed to friend me.  But I think it was one of those... "We'll call you"  Type of deals.  But then they don't call.

Oh well.  That's why you just have to enjoy the hour of conversation and beer.  Anything beyond that is a bonus.  I just look at it like that.

For example... that first coffee date I had with Kara.  That was all there COULD have been.  She could have just said ... "Well, it was nice to meet ya."  And go on her way.  But then when I asked if she wanted to go get dinner and drinks... And we did that immediately after... From there on out it was all bonus.

So the fact that we even HAD any kind of anything happen for any length of time beyond just that first coffeeshop meet up.  It was all just bonus.

I guess the fact that anyone even responds at all on the dating site is bonus.  They could just not even respond at all.

I feel like anyone that comes into your life though at any point and stays for any length of time... It's always a bonus.  After all that person could have not come into your life at all.  So the fact that you just share even a word or two, or beer or two, or a handshake, or a hug... That's all bonus.

And that's how I met the new design team helping to revamp/rebrand David's Bridal corporate branding.