Then again, I ain't gonna hit up on you with my wife and kids in tow
That seems a wise move, BillW. I did enjoy meeting you and your wife and kids and Joanne and her aunt. We had fun that evening, didn't we?
For complex intellectual relationships, online chatting/discussion is ideal. One has the time to ruminate, compose, and focus upon the concepts being communicated (maybe even do a bit of research). This is ideal way to meet a partner of the cerebral persuasion. But for extra-cranial activity, nothing beats a chinese restaurant and a pot of tea.
(I've had two online contacts go "real life" on me, and they were quite pleasant relationships, yes. :-))
Online dating service ... I hear that more women are trying it for casual flings these days, and I guess it makes sense for that.
But if you like tennis, maybe you should try the tennis club.
Artwork? Try a class, gallery, or a museum.
Strange customs? Hang out with me.
I used to date women in the caving club, just because I liked to get squished half a mile underground with someone before asking them out. It was a very primal thing I guess. Maybe the dark helped too.
I am married to an online date.
I didn't do online dating for that long, but generally speaking there were a lot of losers out there with problems. In person I met 3 people total. 1 was a loser/liar, 1 was nice but not my type, 1 became my wife!
That's definitely encouraging news! (must be the nice smile :wink: )
Hi guys!
Cborg - that seems to be the general trend in the advice here. Do things I like with clubs or not and meet people through that. Have I joined any clubs? Not really.
Good going Brian!
CodeBorg wrote:But for extra-cranial activity, nothing beats a chinese restaurant and a pot of tea.
And Elvis playing on the P.A.?
I've thought about online dating, but it's just so expensive, even the cheap websites. Take Yahoo for example. It used to be free and now it's almost $20 a month just to send people messages. That just seems so.....insane. Email is free, right. Dating websites are filled with popups and ads, so why all that extra dough? They can't be charging the money just for the search capabilities, can they? I spend less money on my cable bill every month.
And it's not that I'm cheap, I just can't afford it.
Silverhawk, there are enough FREE dating websites, you don't need to be paying for it.
Do a search on Google, see what you come up with.
My thanks to Quinn who helped me get on this thread: it was making the computer freeze!
I wrote elsewhere about an event that made me think I ought to get married. During the summer of 1975, I was fixed up with a new Wayne State U faculty member who was the undergrad roommate of my thesis advisor (married men used to fix me up with their brothers, cousins, former roommates and friends from out of town all the time). While he was handsome, charming and intelligent, he was very dependent and he had had a vasectomy and I wanted kids.
At that time, I used to sometimes go to a bar that was in an elegant old residential hotel adjacent the WSU campus: I felt I had outgrown the student bar known as The Traffic Jam. another habitue was a man I often talked to who was a little depressed. He asked me to have dinner with him one night and I went home, bathed and dressed while I waited and waited and waited. An hour after the appointed time (I had no phone: too poor), I decided to go to the bar and treat myself to a sandwich. The lobby of my building was littered with dried wildflowers that were prettier than they sound here. I ran into him some time later. He had a business appt in Pontiac or someplace north of Detroit and was late. He wanted to bring flowers but in those days, businesses did not keep late hours so he stopped along the highway and picked the wildflowers. He claimed to have rung my bell but I think he either chickened out or pushed the wrong button. Anyway, I felt people were like him -- burned out from dating and so I ended up marrying my ex, because I thought Mr. Right would be too discouraged to have dinner let alone propose!
YEAH!
glad to see you were finally able to get in here, now hopefully you can catch up a bit
hi plainoldme! Hi everyone!
Hi littlek, long time no see
Hiya Bill - been laying a bit low. I didn't realize how often I was on A2K until I spent a week away from it. Yikes! Trying to keep it limited.
I hear - I'll be spending a few days without soon myself
I started a series of books on the 8th and just finished them - I devoured those books. I haven't been reading enough.
I haven't read for a long time - but I don't in the summer. I have been playing a lot of golf - thought I was getting better until last Friday :sad:
uhoh.... how bad did you play?
We're going to have a little A2K meeting in Austin on Friday at Spaghetti Warehouse around 6pm. Going to see Max, Mac, SinkerHawk and maybe MaryKat (though no one has heard from her for several weeks now).
Are you going to get to the October big gathering in Austin (10-13th). Hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The last time I remember we had a chance of meeting was last winter when you left me frozen on the steel telephone pole outside that jazz concert
PS, so bad I didn't keep score, had back spasms!
