I brought my daughter and sister out for dinner last weekend. I have a very good chat with my sister who still is a single at that day. She had apart with ex-boyfriends almost a year but still has not meet another right man yet.

She told me everyone is asking her when she gets would marry and she found this kind of question is very annoying. I understand how she feels, I all of the people does wish to find a person who really care and love us. However, I advice her not to be hurry just to find a person to love. There are many nice person out there, she should select one that is really love her and care about her.

If she worry has no time to meet with new friends, then she probably should find truly compatible singles with Perfect Match, eHarmony.com Match.com. I believe she could meet someone that match with her. There are quite many online dating website actually. I think she could try to learn more about online dating services now. Moreover, I am going to remind her to read those articles like matchmaking Slump and Love Twenty-First Century Style, so that she could be familiar with online dating services.

Tag: perfect match

I met Delta Papa on last Sunday night, the 22nd. I had a bad feeling about for the past few days after I talked to her on the phone. Let’s say the voice on the other side of the phone didn’t sound like the person in the Match.com profile picture. She sounded like she was 300 pounds, mush mouth and drowsy. And she just talked as if she was over-thinking everything. Over-thinking like at first we just wanted to meet up real casual just to say hit. She offered a movie, but since it was late Sunday night she had concerns there’d be nothing open after the movie where we could just sit down and talk. WTF? I don’t like to over-think things openly so I said let’s play it by ear. Her concern was a real turn off. And when someone doesn’t sound really enthusiastic on the phone, it doesn’t help things.

So it’s obvious I wasn’t looking forward to meeting up.

So we met up in front of Barnes and Noble and walked over to Cheesecake Factory. I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. First of all, it seems not many people put an update photo with their profile. That’s infuriating. In her photo, she’s a long-haired red head. In person, it’s much shorter, more brown and she wears glasses. BUT she’s tall and thin (she’s a bit taller than me with her heels which I think is sexy), no where near the 300 lb behemoth her voice sounded like on the phone. Nice skin. Nice boobs. Caboose was proportionate to her tall frame.

We took a seat at a table near the bar. She said she wasn’t that hungry so I took the lead and just ordered a popcorn shrimp appetizer. She just had a water so I didn’t want to look like a lush so I just ordered a Coke. The bread came and she mentioned that she has this brain allergy for wheat gluten, but the only thing that happens is that if she has too much she gets drowsy, like when you eat turkey. She said she wasn’t hungry, but after a few minutes, devoured most of the bread and really got into the popcorn shrimp.

She took a bit to warm up. She talks with this drowsy, mush mouth drawl like she has braces or a retainer on (which she doesn’t have). She’s a tomboy nerd. She used to be into World of Warcraft and now she’s getting into poker. She does software development so the geek thing is right up my alley. But the socially deficient nerd thing is a turn off. I really want a girly girl I can dress up at Express or something so likes cute shoes.

So we talked for a bit. The more she talked, the more she relaxed and opened up. I would really like to jump her bones and go to town on her breasts, but that’s beside the point. I wasn’t feeling her as a potential date, but I’d still love to see her again as friends and at least get some practice in the batting cage. It was late Sunday so we thought we hit up the bar upstairs to keep talking. The bar was closed so we just called it a night and I left her with a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

I’ve been keeping in touch via texts and instant messages. Fast forward to YESTERDAY. I’m taking off a couple more days from work so I’m just doing nothing and vegging out all week. She called me up and asked if I wanted to join her for lunch at Ruby Tuesdays. She bought me lunch and it was nice to just talk. She’s still weird, almost socially stunted. or at least not hip with the same social circles as me.

She’s not my cup of tea. Just a little too strange and weird.

Blog 365 | day 184

Tag: match.com

Men’s 800

Of all the many, many incredible aspects to last night’s men’s 800 final (probably number one on the list: that picture), one thing that I keep thinking about is just how far the event has come over the course of the last year. At last year’s nationals LetsRun did a live Internet broadcast on Talkshoe, and in between events I came on to chat with Robert. The first round of that year’s 800 had been run earlier that day, and we got to talking about the state of the event as it stood at the time.

Basically our entire conversation revolved around trying to figure out what had happened to the 800. 2004 and 2005 were transitional years for the event, but they pointed toward a strong future. The most notable aspect of the ‘04 Trials was David Krummenacker’s failure to earn an Olympic spot, but beyond that it was Jonathan Johnson’s surprise victory in 1:44.77. JJ was only a junior in college in 2004. The next year Kevin Hicks ran 1:44.94 at NCAAs and went on to make Worlds. Khadevis Robinson and Krum were both still at top form. By the time Nick Symmonds emerged in 2006, JJ and Hicks had fallen off the radar. Going into the 2007 meet, the field basically consisted of KD, Symmonds (by then a legit star), and little else. Lopez Lomong and Duane Solomon stepped up huge at USATFs, but there were precious few American 800 runners who could be counted on to run 1:45 consistently, when in years prior there could be four to five collegians at that level.

The reason last night’s race was so dramatic — other than the simple fact that Olympic spots were on the line — was that all eight runners in the field came into the race running at their best, or at least very close to it. There’s no greater evidence of this than the fact that Khadevis Robinson ran his style of race from beginning to end and finished fourth. In past years KD was able to run away from the field at USATFs. Occasionally someone like JJ would meet KD’s challenge, but he was always assured of a top three spot. In post-race interviews, KD was openly wondering where it was that he went wrong during his preparations, but really all that happened was the rest of the country caught up to him. Instead of being ten meters clear with 100 to go, KD had the entire field on his heels.

A year ago KD was cruising to another national title. Even at indoor USATFs, the 800 was little more than a match race between KD and Symmonds. A year ago Andrew Wheating was doing nothing more than getting ready for his sophomore year at Oregon. Christian Smith was God knows where. (Actually you could say that for Christian dating back to about one week ago.) Today they’re Olympians, which says everything you need to know about the state of the US men’s 800 in 2008.

5000

In a normal night the men’s 5000 would have easily been the most exciting race on the track. After all, with 100 meters to go, there were five guys fighting for the three Olympic spots. (Okay, there were four guys fighting for two Olympic spots after Bernard Lagat turned on the jets.) The clear surprise in this race was the pacing. With Adam Goucher in the field not having hit the Olympic A standard, the consensus was that he wouldn’t allow the pace to lag. Well, Brent Vaughn took it out hard, but he was completely on his own as Goucher sat in the back. So much for that.

When Solinsky started pushing the pace over the course of the last kilometer, I figured he was fine. After all, his entire college career was filled with races where he took the lead like that and squeezed the life out of the field. Obviously things are a little different when it’s Bernard “Kip” Lagat that’s lurking behind you rather than Richard Kiplagat, but given how strong Solinsky looked at Pre, holding off Ian Dobson and Bolota Asmerom didn’t seem to be too tall of a task.

But Matt Tegenkamp and Dobson managed their energies a little better over the course of the last lap. My stomach was in my throat when Teg almost fell with 150 to go, but he managed to recover without losing any ground. The fact that he made the team in what was for him probably an average race at best bodes well for him in Beijing. As for Dobson, it’s easy to say that all he did was bide his time smartly, simply sitting and kicking. But to me it looked like he was doing all he could to respond to Solinsky’s surges, and by the time the last hundred rolled around, he was finally able to look up and go for broke. Dobson’s race was much tougher than it looked. With all due respect to Solinsky and Asmerom, the US is definitely sending its best possible team to Beijing.

Women’s 800

I don’t have a whole lot to say about this race. My overall impression of it was that it was very strange. The fact that there were twelve women in the final had a dramatic impact on how everything played out, what with the entire field setting off in a full-out sprint to avoid a waterfall catastrophe, and with a few women running virtually their entire races in lane two. Then, after a blazing first 600, the last 200 was a competition of who could die the least. Hazel Clark won easily even though she barely even made it to the finish line. Just weird.

I suppose this is as good a place as any to say that I’m against the new format that requires the athletes to hit the A standard by the time the Trials is over, rather than giving runners who place in the top three without having yet hit the standard opportunties throughout the summer to chase it. Maybe I’m just averse to change, but it seems to me that the goal should be to peak for the Olympic games. If you place in the top three at the Trials, then hit the A standard at some point before the games, I can’t think of any reason why you shouldn’t be able to join the team.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to do some deep soul searching over the possiblity of Jaromir Jagr becoming a Penguin again.