April 2010

So March was my "Fine, let's take a look at this whole dating thing again." decision.

If I don't sound happy about it, it is because I am not good at pretense.  I am only dating to spend time with folks, I am not looking, desperately, for my soul mate because I have concluded that what I need to do is find people who do not despise the things I do before anything else.  This sounds simple, right?  Wrong.

I am not certain what checklists women are using when they are looking for dates but my supposition is that it resembles the following:

1. Looks like Brad Pit
2. Built like a Greek god
3. Loves children
4. Hates all women but me
5. Richer than Gates
6. Sensitive
7. Loves to do housework
8. Is a man's man
9. Thinks I ...

As mentioned previously, I took the holidays off from dating.  My original New Years plan involved time with friends for board games, good food, good drink, conversation, movies, etc. and I had planned to invite one of the women I was seeing but my son had mentioned he wanted to have a gathering of friends and I made my excuses and apologies and we planned for that.

The gathering ended up not coming off so it was just my son and I on New Year's Eve, which was fine as I was beginning to feel poorly.  I didn't realise this would continue for two and a half months.  I'd get cold symptoms, I'd get better, I'd get a light fever, I'd get better, I'd get worse cold symptoms, I'd get a little better, I'd get high fever, it'd break.  When I finally went to the doctor they tasked at me, mentioned pneumonia, gave me a once a day seven day course of antibiotics that forced me to flee from sunlight and gave me symptoms of hypoglycemia and cause the tendons i ...

Not in the dating arena, rather in the blog reporting arena.

No doubt at some point this blog will cause me to lose dates.  Good.  Dear God I am already wondering why the hell women are more insane than I could have ever imagined.  If this blog prevents me from having to endure time with specific ones, great.

A bit of background, I was born in 1961, do the math.  I have grey hair and a short trimmed grey beard.  My hair is not as thick as it once in the way back and I could stand to loose a few pounds.  I am a father, a gamer, a writer, a fighter, and actor and a geek.  My kids are grown, I love playing board and video games, I write poetry and fiction and  other things, I teach and train in TKD as well as doing SCA heavy fighting, and I act in plays and improv groups and as part of the Street Circus at the PA Ren Faire.  I am active physically and run circles around most men 15 ye ...