It's been nearly two months since I've done anything. I have re-evaluated my situation, I don't really "game" anymore, I just try to be normal, down to earth, and social. The only "game" I do is kino, isolating, venue changing and closing. I am now following Mark Manson's progressive approach. I feel like I am starting all over again, all my AA is back. But doing Manson's progression quickly helped with lowering it.

Thurs - actions: open, attempt numcloss

So on Thurs night I did 3 more openers, they were direct: "Hey I saw you and wanted to meet you". My AA is slowly disappearing, back like I was in August. I opened a bar tender who was really into me, in fact some guy tried amoging me, but she sent him on his way and started talking to me again. We spoke for 20 minutes about politics and documentaries, and she kept asking a lot of personal questions about me. I saw a lot IOIS, my wing told me not to ask her to meet up because it's against work policy for most bars, but I num closed a bar tender in August, so I didn't really believe him. He was right, I asked her to meet up, and she said "Sorry it's against my work's policy to give customers my number, but come back to see me, I'll be here." I know she's into me because she kept coming back to me, so I need to go back there and figure out how to get her to meet up with me.

Fri - actions: open, kino, isolate, escalate, attempt kclose, attempt numclose,

Tonight (Friday) was fun, I went out with 3 wings. On my first set, we'll call the girl HBRedDress, I went situational, then I transitioned to direct saying "I just wanted to meet you", when I said that, HBRedDress got really close to me. I said "What are we doing? the salsa?" and she says "you salsa?", so I grabbed her and we started salsa dancing in the street. Mad kino, my hands all over her body. We then went to the dance floor in the bar, and I spun her around, and did all kinds of salsa. She put my hand on her chest to feel her heart beating fast. She goes to her friends, and invites me, I meet them, I go back to my group. We dance on and off through out the night. I eventually pull her off the floor and isolate her, I try to go in for the kiss, she says "Not yet, I don't kiss on first night", I say "I'm not going to kiss you" she replies "What's wrong with me? why don't you want to kiss me" and gets really close to me. I tease her by going in and out.. we hold hands, lock fingers, then her other friends come. All kino stops.

I introduce myself to her friends, as I'm talking to her friend, her other friend takes her away. I don't see her for a while, one of her friends really likes me and kept chatting with me, the other ones were kind of stuck up. Anyways, I see her later on in the night I say "I'm leaving, let's meet up sometime" she says "I'm busy with school" I say "ok bye". I leave outside, my friend opens a set and hands the girl off to me, I talk to her, get her hooked, start kinoing. As I'm doing this, HBRedDress comes out and starts grabbing me. I say "hey" to her, but not give her any attention as I speak with the other girl, HBRedDress gets close and starts hugging me. I tell HBRedDress "I'll see you later". She leaves, I continue talking to the other girl. The girl says "see you inside" and goes inside. My wing comes and tells me that HBRedDress is constantly looking back to see what I'm doing, and that she's waiting for me. My other buddy tells me to try to bring her to the next bar we're hitting, which I thought was a bad idea, I thought I should have tried to number close again. Anyways, I finally give in and tell HBRedDress to come with us to the bar we're going to. She says "no I have to go to sleep", hugs me, and jumps into a car with her friends.

Whatever. I did my part, I'm happy I tried going for the kiss, that I opened, escalated, isolated, and tried to setup a date. I'm glad that my wings reminded me to isolate, it's hard to think about theory when you're in the moment. I'm happy with the "no-bullshit" approach, if a girl gives me bullshit about being busy, it's over, she's probably gonna flake anyways. BUT, girls quickly see that I'm down to earth and not a "player" or "gamer", so maybe I should give them a second chance by asking them again. Maybe HBRedDress realized I'm not going to chase her or play the game with her, and so I should have tried num closing her again.

Second set, at new bar, I see a hot blonde eyeing me, as she walks by, I claw her in and say "Hi I'm hahaboohoo, I wanted to meet you" - She tells me her name. I ask her what she's up to" - she says she's here with her fiance, and celebrating her friends birthday. I say "cool, enjoy your night". Not wasting time with that, going to stick to what Manson says about being efficient.

Third set, we sit down at booth, I see a different blonde sitting at the booth beside us looking at me, she's with a guy who's beside her, and a third wheel sitting across the table. I'm not attracted to 3rd wheel, but practice is practice. I say "I'm hahaboohoo" she's says "Meet my friend Mimi". I talk to Mimi, Mimi's not really socially calibrated, and a bit rude, not sure if she means it or not. She kept saying "oh there's your friend, your friend is back". I took this as her trying to indirectly say that she doesn't want to talk. Seeing as how I'm already satisfied with the night, and don't want to deal with games, I go back to my friends.

Wrap up

So that put's me at 19 sets this week, I'm following Manson's progression challenge model. I need one more approach to get to the next level (3) where he says to approach until you have three 30 min conversations, two dates, three phone numbers, and 25 approaches in one weekend.