I've written to someone on OkStupid again, and she wrote back. I walked away from that silly site a couple of months ago and told myself that whatever good that place could be for some people it just wasn't really my thing. About a week or so ago though, I got to chatting with an on line friend about dating and companionship and being married and ( Read more... )

I'm playing a game I can't win ( Read more... )

I was reading a web site just awhile ago called MidlifeBachelor.com. It's one of those serendipitously tripped-over web sites that one encounters, usually while searching or browsing on a related topic, that just sort of sucks one into it, like informational quicksand. The guy who does at least some of the writing there is funny and not without a ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been running across a really interesting (or deviant, take your pick) idea that seems to be circulating through the zeitgeist: sex every day. Google that phrase and see what you get - 155 million hits... It's a topic that is apparently on a lot of minds. I've read some thoughts on the idea over the past couple of months when I ( Read more... )

Well, I wrote that lady on OkStupid a second message. I'm not entirely sure now why I did. Her profile, while intelligently written, is a tad sparse on hooks for striking up an interesting conversation. She is attractive, although I'm not quite sure that it is really all that appropriate to be making that all that much of an issue in introducing ( Read more... )

It was another warm sunny day today in Alameda. Fall is here. I guess this is Indian Summer. I love this time of year. The work being done on Stargell Ave. has reached a point where the whole street and walks are torn up. They closed the entire street to even to pedestrian traffic and put up a detour. I ended up walking all the way around the ( Read more... )

Leaving on a jet plane

Well ham, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary has died. Apparently, she died on the sixteenth, at 72, of complications from chemotherapy for leukemia. Well, there goes another small chunk of my childhood. I always liked their music.

Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
It's been an odd week. Last Wednesday ( Read more... )

I wanted to play hooky so much Thursday morning. I was already running later than usual to work in the first place. Fortunately, I have a job that is pretty understanding about office hours and my job is not hour-critical, as long as the work gets done in a timely fashion. The temptation was the great weather and the beautiful San Francisco ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder about the sexes and how they interact. Us guys, we can be pretty oblivious, sometimes, and sometimes it does seem that we are focused deeply upon just one thing. Of course this exasperates women too, sometimes, unless they happen to be deeply interested in "that one thing" at the moment themselves. All of that is quite ( Read more... )

This afternoon I was thinking about a girl I knew in high school and junior high. It was in the context of thinking about early crushes brought on by an earlier discussion of same. I had wondered what had become of her and did some gratuitous internet stalking. I was surprised to still be able to locate her, still in the town where we had grown ( Read more... )