I'm sitting here with my coffee, the fan is blowing on me but it is not really all that hot. It's been a very pleasant morning, for August, here in Livermore. There are no clouds in the sky. The temperature is in the mid 80's Fahrenheit. I had read "the news" and was making coffee and heard in my head, DJ playing The 5th Dimension's "Wedding Bell ( Read more... )

The lady who is the chief of staff sent me an e-mail this morning to welcome me to The QCC. That would be the Quarter Century Club in the enterprise where I work. I'm not sure what to think about getting this e-mail. She mentions scheduling a virtual meeting with the CEO, virtual only because the company HQ is in Chicago. She continues that I can ( Read more... )

For some reason this evening, Internal DJ decided to start playing Liz Phair: "Extraordinary." I like the song and I went to go find it on YouTube and play it. I used to love hearing it on the radio, when I still listened to the radio. It's funny, I go get videos on YouTube as the go-to, instead of looking them up on Spotify. I suppose it may have ( Read more... )

I'm 59 years old and I'm two decades divorced from nearly two decades of relationship and marriage to one woman, I'm the father of children grown to adulthood. I'm on a couple of dating apps. I date women roughly my age. It is interesting to read for what women say they are looking, in terms of a relationship.

There are women on these apps who ( Read more... )

"Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself ( Read more... )

I ran across this article from a link on my ISP's home page. It's called Why I Love Dating In My 50's.. Basically, the itemized list boils down to this:

1. The "biological clock" is not an issue.
2. Older generally means more experienced at life, romance, and sex.
3. The media smiles on older men. (How this relates to ME I don't know...)
4. Women become more ( Read more... )

A friend of mine posted this on a social media site the other day. It's a video which is part of an art project called "Hysterical Literature." The artist is a photographer, and his project features videos wherein a woman sits at a table reading some passage from her favorite literature. At the same time she is doing this, beneath the table, she is ( Read more... )

Getting a bit of thunderstorm in Livermore tonight, around eight o'clock. Mostly it was just a bit of lightning, but it spit some rain as well. I stood out in the front, under the eaves with the porch light off, watching it. It's been awhile since I smelled the leaf mold and ozone and the smell of wet things. It didn't last very long but it has ( Read more... )

I was talking with a friend of mine this evening. Talking to her is always good, and it feels nice, but chatting with her makes me want things. It makes me want things that I really don't want enough to make a serious effort to have. Stuff gets stirred up. I get to missing things I used to have. It throws me out of my center ( Read more... )

It never rains but that it pours. Complications. Complications. I would rhetorically ask why there are complications but I know the answer perfectly well. There are complications because we fail to see or refuse to see, or even erroneously discount, the consequences of our choices. The sticky thing for me is that it is hard sometimes to ( Read more... )