Picking up the blog again

Trying to pick up this blog again. I've been working on this self-improvement project for close to a year now, and I have seen some changes. I started a new job in July and I don't think I would have fit in as well as I have had I not been consciously working on my social skills and inner confidence for all this time, especially the period Mar - July when I was unemployed. I'm a lot more open than I was a year ago. I am actually meeting women now. I still don't know how to escalate those interactions (more on that later), but I am actually getting out there.