So I've been gaming everyone lately and everything's on the up and up. Approaches are coming more naturally, AA is almost a thing of the past. This weekend I had some measures of success.

I went out Friday to a bar with some friends, opened up a set by noticing one of them was putting away a note with some writing on it, so I joked about how she scored some digits, congratulated her and gave her a high five. The group starts laughing. I immediately transition to situational talk and keep it light, the group is digging it, and I'm working the guys and girls. At this point I didn't have a target picked out but one of the girls just wraps her arms around my neck as we're talking and I just went with it. I kept up the playful banter, never revealing what I do for a living - I went with high seas pirate, actually, and that worked great. They kept saying how they were wenches. The rest of the night was kino microescalation until a small isolation where we went looking for smokes. That's when the makeout session got started and pretty much kept up all night. To get the kiss started I gradually built up the proximity of our faces as we talked, and slowed things down. Basically, this technique. She wanted it bad, and was shoving her tongue down my throat whenever she could. I pulled her off of me a few times and told her to control herself which of course made her even crazier. Unfortunately I didn't work the rest of the group well enough because they pulled the "you know what I think about you going home with this guy tonight" line and obviously she wasn't about to slut it up in front of her friends so I got her digits and called it a night. The next morning she reports in as my faitfhul wench via text message. I'll probably meet up with her again.

The next day on my way out to explore the city I bumped into a neighbour and convinced her to tag along - she's super cute but this outing convinced me that she's also pretty cool. The conversation was light, situational, touching on some stories about our lives and how we got to where we are, all the while keeping up the kino and joking around. It even seemed like she was looking for excuses to lengthen our adventure. The thing is, due to the proximity, I'm not sure how I want to play this one. I know I can easily get in there, but I wouldn't want it to go sour and have to deal with the fallout in such close quarters. Plus, she'd actually be a cool friend. I'm thinking I might just keep up the tension but not try for any close. That night we did a guys night to an (unfortunately) female devoid scotch bar, but we did see some chicks on the subway on the way over. There were a few of us and we were pretty pumped for the evening, so when we got on one car and my friends sat next to a pretty cute chick with headphones on I went over to them and did the fist bumps. Without skipping a beat I put my fist out to the girl and motion for her to get in on it. She does. My friends immediately start asking her what she's listening too, which was some international mixes. We immediately start talking about travel (which all of us are pretty passionate about). The easy conversation led to a number close in less than two minutes, then we jumped off and did our (lady free) business for the evening. I texted her the next day to remind her I'd need some travel tips for an upcoming vacation and her responses were good.

Finally last night I went out again, this time for some live music, folksy/funky type of stuff. Chicks love this, and there were plenty of pretty ones out. It helped that I was friends with most of the musicians so starting conversations about the situation was easy. I again kept things sort of light, dabbled in a couple of connection type conversations, but didn't go too hard on any of them. My plan was to get them all comfortable and not weirded out at how I was chatting up lots of girls, and close on some numbers for private meet ups later. Most were dropping hugely obvious IOIs with the flirtatious hair playing, and very relaxed body language, smiling while chatting, good eye contact, etc. The number close rate: 3 out of 3. The text back response rate? 3 out of 3. It's definitely game on with these. As we were leaving a few went for the handshake goodbye to which I sort of laughed and said that's only for strangers and went in for a hug. All were receptive to this, and put smiles on their faces.

I'm actually kind of exhausted due to the amount of outings, the work week might actually be a nice break.