"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Anyone have this problem with their CD player?

RazorAzoth

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The CD player is my car (just the stock CD player) plays regular CD's fine but screws up when playing CDR's. It'll play the songs in order if you don't touch anything. But if you want to listen to track 2 then skip to track 8 it won't start to play track 8. It just keeps scanning the CDR then says error. Should I try another brand of blank CD's? The ones I have now are Memorex.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Lion

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Some CD players are not designed with provision for playing CDRs - guess you need to get an aftermarket unit my friend
 

Levex

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Lion said:
Some CD players are not designed with provision for playing CDRs - guess you need to get an aftermarket unit my friend
Thats the most likely cause of your problem. It will also do that if cds are scratched up.
 

Desdinova

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It could be a number of things. It could be that your CD player doesn't like the CDs that your burner creates. It could be the brand of CDs you use. It could be the speed you burn your discs at. It could also be that your CD player is friggin' ancient and doesn't like to play burned CDs.

Try a different brand of disc, different burner, and try burning your CDs at lower speeds. You may eventually get a combination that works for you.

I find that a disc is much more reliable when I burn it at slower speeds (usually 4x). Also, I find that that generic store brand CDs are garbage and don't last much past a year. I usually go with well known name brands such as Fuji or Maxell. If you really want to go the stretch, you can get professional grade discs or ones that are manufactured to fill a certain need (audio, photo, data, etc)

Again, the only way you can find what works for you is to experiment a bit.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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