Back in the Saddle

Comment by olafandyjon (Guest)

olafandyjon (Guest) — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:24:24 +0000

Who said there aren't any jobs in Royal Oak? She could be a bartender or a postal clerk. You just never know.

Comment by Speaker (Guest)

Speaker (Guest) — Mon, 16 May 2005 14:07:53 +0000

we use the word "hip"... as in, "my wife just got a cortizone shot in her hip."

apart from that, good luck! or, er, well, ganbatte! or is that too assumptive? i don't like assuming, you make out of uma thurman...

Comment by amy (Guest)

amy (Guest) — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:22:30 +0000

hi ken, yeah it was pretty good for a while, wasn't it? i'm sure you will do just fine. best of luck.

Comment by Crouching Hamster (Guest)

Crouching Hamster (Guest) — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:59:18 +0000

One more thing - online dating is SO over. I'm not kidding. That's according to the venerable (and often wrong) New York Times.

Comment by Crouching Hamster (Guest)

Crouching Hamster (Guest) — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:56:43 +0000

"Aww." This is comment from my twenty-six year-old classmate who refuses to really comment. Now she says she doesn't refuse. "Stop. Shut up," she says.

This is MY comment. "Old fart?" Excuse me? If you're an old fart, what is someone who is 57? 77? Dead?

Am I an old fart too? An older fart? A smellier fart?

What do you want? Do you want to be married and have kids? Do you want to be a grandfather? Now? (These are my classmates asking.)

Comment by 21stCenturyMom (Guest)

21stCenturyMom (Guest) — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:27:11 +0000

I cannot believe you are referring to yourself as old. For the love of God you are in your prime, dude! You are the perfect age to be dating. I am more in the geezer cateogory (but not a geezer - oh no!).

I've done a lot of on-line dating myself and I have a few things to say:
1). There is no shame in using the internet to find love. It is common as dishwater. These sites advertise in the popular media. Get over it.
2). Matchmaker.com is better than match.com. eHarmony may be worth the money for you. It is really different and favors people who are serious about finding a mate over these other 'drive by' sites that encourage a lot of crazy antics and lying about who you are (you know what I mean, I know you do).

Hold your head high and three cheers for mind blowing sex no matter how you find it.

Comment by Ken

Ken — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:29:47 +0000

For the record, Julie, I almost wrote to you on Friendster long time ago. :)

Comment by Julie (Guest)

Julie (Guest) — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:04:19 +0000

hey, i met my husband online (for the record, i preferred the salon.com (mindspring? springstreet? whatever ... ) personals to your provider of choice - by & large, the people seemed quirkier & more interesting). online dating gets more & more acceptable every year ... so, no fear! and i hope it works out as well for you as it did for us!

btw, hi, i'm julie, a friend of jen's (cyberdryad)!

Comment by Crouching Hamster (Guest)

Crouching Hamster (Guest) — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:28:34 +0000

Let the games begin!

(Hamster's 40!)

Bert?

Comment by Lisa (Guest)

Lisa (Guest) — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:13:40 +0000

Great post. Even if you don't get a chick.
We used to have a friend that took a long time to find someone. He used to cruise for the "chicks." He finally started dating his massage therapist. There it is Ken, get naked, find a woman.

Bert was 35 when we got married, he got lots of grief for being single for so long. Just tell people quality relationships take time.

Back in the Saddle

Ken — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:52:11 +0000

This is a really hard article for me to write.