A day at home, mucking about with VPN issues for work waiting for UPS to deliver mom’s packages. She’s moving to Seattle at the end of the month. I can appreciate needing the time off.<\/p>\n
hey Bryan, i’m sort of seeing someone, and sort of just feeling out of the game right now. i also sort of always date older guys. but thanks for the note. i really do appreciate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I nervously scanned my sent-email for the part where I had said, “hey babe, you’re hot. let’s do it”. Or not. But I was a little surprised. I had emailed this girl with my standard banter, somethings in her profile got me thinking and I started a conversation. There was a question in there that went unanswered. You can’t judge strangers though. You know nothing about them, or their circumstances.<\/p>\n
The ‘older guys’ comment was interesting too; three years difference. Of course, she’s certainly entitled to want whatever she does. But a poll or chart of some kind would be interesting. I’ve been chatting a bit with another girl, five years older, who based on a journal entry does maintain some kind of statistics:<\/p>\n
Since 8\/24\/08, the following people have initiated contact with me:
\nM <<btmspox>> – very cool guy so far
\n[snip]<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPeople are so unique and different. Today was uneventful, and I spent a lot of time hitting my head against a wall, to no avail, but somehow I feel good about it. And perhaps thus, I’m glad<\/strong> people are different. Fears of ageism are long since gone from my soul. These days people tend to assume I’m older rather than younger. I prefer that, probably from the ordeals I went through dealing with age when I was younger. These days I’m much more interested in experiences and maturity than age. Wait, wasn’t I always? Perhaps. Although, perhaps I’m slightly succumbing finally to feeling that people my age or younger haven’t put themselves through enough yet to have much wisdom to work with. Yup, I’m a bastard.<\/p>\n
If people are really complex systems, why I do enjoy solving problems with other types of systems, yet am only curious when it comes to people? I’m a believer in the “you can’t fix people” mentality, while you can fix other systems. Is that it? I don’t recall working through that logic, although I’m the last to not have faith in the subconscious.<\/p>\n
I had a chat with Denny today about Maria and Maine and the lot. That was good. I feel it’s tough to find anyone who knows about the past there, or at least enough that I’m not constantly filling in back stories, and isn’t super judgmental.<\/p>\n
I did get to use a comment that I’ve been laughing with myself about for a while now though:<\/p>\n
My mom is actually moving from Maine this month to move in with me. I feel like I should be able to produce more funny jokes from that than I have thus far. I’m waiting for her to get here to add, “My mom still lives with me. She’s a good kid though” to my profile. She is a good kid though, she just needs a break.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n