^{Shyness is nice, but Shyness can stop you}

^{From doing all the things in life}

^{that you'd like to.}

When I met her, she asked me what I was looking at:     

          "Oh, not much,  just the distance"  

It was a true statement, but later she told me she thought I made it up.  I made up a lot of stories back then,  but that was not one of them.  Years later I wish I had come up with something less clever.  It is likely she would not have been as interested with a generic statement, but I was fresh out.  

Eventually we grew tired of each other and she said she was going to head West.  I tried not to laugh, but she caught me smiling.  We were living near Seattle,  the only thing west was the ocean.  

It's my partner's birthday this Friday. She is turning 25. I check my bank account: $61.06 until the 15th. I think I can stretch it into flowers and a dinner out, hopefully.

We are low on cash because we recently took a vacation we couldn't afford- not that it was lavish, but our time off was unpaid. Actually, vacation is a bit of a stretch for Arizona in June, but it was time off, back home. The first night we were there we shared a cigarette. It was well after dark, but the air was 90+

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams is a PC videogame that simulates the full experience of doing a jigsaw puzzle. There are many websites and games for the purpose of doing jigsaw puzzles -- what makes this one unique is that it renders the puzzle on a table in a room, and you can customize everything about the room; the materials and colors of the table, the walls, the furniture; you have a kitchen, a couch, a bedroom. The graphics are gorgeous with Unreal Engine 5 and it runs on under a gigabyte or