It's Pubski day! I've had a rough couple of weeks mental health wise. Just a lot of doubts about my climbing, my relationships, my work. Currently very, very unguided and I keep asking for what the company needs me and my team to be working on since I've been told "no" on multiple business cases for projects right now. The response has unilaterally been to wait until company strategy is released in the upcoming weeks. So I'm kind of checked out until that happens. The plus side is I'm getting some learning done on the side related to SQL and data engineering, and lots of running and climbing time. Dating sucks. That's been confirmed. My luck with dating is exclusively with people who do not live in Seattle, strangely enough. Seem to be the less flaky, more likely to actually go out and see what happens. Talking to friends, this seems to be a common theme across genders. Not quite sure what it is about Seattle on this one. Doing the math on housing and need housing prices to fall another $100k ish out here before it makes sense to pull the trigger on a purchase when considering the changes in interest rates. Not sure when that will happen but gives me the opportunity to build up more of a down payment, and worst case, I have more cash on hand. Yay.
What's the go too first date plan for you? Is climbing considered a good date option? I suppose it depends on the person but here in Dunedin it'd be drinks in the centre of town, or go to a play. Once I went to the little $5 outdoors mini-golf course for a second date and I wound up buying a house with that woman, so that proved lucrative for us. Emotionally at least.
I know quite a few people who do climbing as a first date but that is not something I enjoy. I am definitely more in the camp or lets go get a drink and figure out if we like each other before committing to spending time in a climbing gym, or a full day outside together. Or some other easy activity as a first date. But not climbing. Is climbing popular in NZ? I'm aware of some amazing climbing in Australia, but not so much in NZ.
That's very fair, committing a lengthy event with someone you don't know just yet! I know of a few people that get into climbing here, but only the indoors setups. Though that's likely more my social circles not including it than it not being popular, I suspect there are many people further inland with the mountains that like to scale things!