With Valentine’s Day on the horizon I just wanted to take the time to give a little advice to the guys out there. Stop waiting until February 14th every year to buy something for your wife or significant other that you wouldn’t normally buy for them.
Why??? You are being price gouged.
Those $60 roses you buy….guess what….they aren’t $60 the rest of the year.
SURPRISE!!!!
Before I get started I should probably explain that I have been pacing myself with this blog. I write notes about my experiences often but only blog around once a week as I don’t want to bombard people with it, I would prefer people to read it periodically. I guess I treat it a little like an e-mailout… I’m sure most people have experienced this, you sign up for updates from a website that you find interesting only to find out that they send you an email whenever something remotely uninteresting has happened and you soon find yourself hitting the `unsubscribe’ link. What this means is that I am posting about something that happened weeks ago, using the aid of my notes, but my writing would lead you to believe that it has only just happened.
This morning (actually three or so weeks ago) I left the Hostel to spend the weekend with a new friend from the website – couchsurfing.com. Couchsurfing is a not for profit website that connects travellers with people who might have a couch (or a spare room) available on their travels. You set up a profile that lists your interests/philosophies/special skills etc. A traveller makes a search that you can base on age/sex/location etc. and can then make requests to those who the search returns.