The Thousand Dollar Answer

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Not sure if anyone is even READING this anymore.
I have been most terrible in the blogsphere of late.
There is talk of me losing my blog-credentials if I don't stay current.

So here I am.
I have discovered a new truth.
When it is a Friday before a long weekend, your office is rapidly becoming a ghost town and you have more work that you can mentally wrap your arms around....
You blog.

In all fairness, I am eating lunch, so this SORTA counts as a lunch break.
the man can't come down on me for that.
NSA maybe,
Man. No.

So what you ask, have I been up to for the last, erm... 2 weeks??
Well.
Hm.
Certainly HASN'T been any action on the online front.
There were two inquires that made me laugh...
One from our friends at Match.com and another from Perfectmatch.com.
Match.com
22 year old.
In Ames.
Leaving in 3 weeks to go to culinary school on the East Coast.
Tells me in his profile that he if he is not working, he is out boozing it up with his buddies.

So, in his infinite 22-year old wisdom, he has decided that in the THREE weeks he has left in town, he should hang out with a 30 year old who might just come along to his keg-stand parties and go from there???
This is one of those fork-in-the-road moments.
Will I regret this the rest of my life? could this be the one for me?

Oh wait.
Nevermind.
No -- and no. I don't feel that I even have to explain myself on this one. Oh, and there was this... I am fairly confident that one of the pictures he posted was from PROM!!!!
Yeah. right.

Round II
**bell sounds**

Perfectmatch.com.
Which is so far removed from PERFECT, that it isn't even funny.
I got an email this week.
Lets give it a read, shall we??

I think yopu are really nice and I am interested in your person. I you are
looking for long term relationship, please contact me at xxx ya hoo .
com for privacy.Waiting eagerly for your reply. Receive my best
greetings.Bigo.

Now, Bigo lives in the Dominican Republic.
I am sure Bigo is a lovely gentleman.
But what is UP with the international crap from this site? How do they find me? I mean, they have to really look long and hard....
Or do they just grab zip codes they think are cool and go from there? Or did someone tell them, chase those Iowa girls -- you have a great shot, the competition there is men who like crappy chain restaurants and 60 year old Japanese business men -- who live in Japan.
Sheesh.

So. In light of this recent bout of activity, or lack thereof.
I did it.
I did it, BIG.
The executive matchmakers were contacted, paid and it has begun.
I had my introductory interview with them last night.
So there is a basic web form you fill out. Age, location, height -- generic enough stuff.
And then they get into all this crazy stuff.
Like, -- if you had to identify the things that have gone wrong in your past relationships, what would they be?
or
"What do you find physically attractive?"
Which in and of itself should be a simple answer. But it stumped me. I mean... think about it. One, my idea of "attractive" has changed since I was 16. Two, There are a number of occasions that I found someone more attractive as I got to know them.
Quite possible I am overreacting. Wouldn't be the first time.

So then they have this whole process.
They feed all my info into the system
Sort out the ones that don't meet basic criteria (location, age, etc)
Then they hand sort them
Then my counselor talks to the counselor of the person they think I should meet.
Then I get the introduction via email.
And before we talk, we are supposed to let the counselor know our initial thoughts.
After we meet, I have to let them know what I think
and then
Later, Rinse, Repeat.

They do one guy at a time. At least two a month and I can put my subscription on hold if I start dating someone.
This all takes about 2 weeks from the first interview.
So -- there it is. Now, THIS should be interesting.
Stay tuned for this one kids....

Other stuff.
Holiday weekend. No plans. Maybe last minute camping if we can get it thrown together.
Or not. Just laying low is ok too.

Mom. Doing well. Had another chemo treatment yesterday. So there is that. Strength is starting to come back from surgeries. So we are doing ok there -- at least for now.

I think that is it.
Natch.