Okay, here's a fun story. So, I went to the doctor today, and he apologized for keeping me waiting (I know, crazy, right? But that's not the story). He said he'd come to the office earlier and had already seen several patients when one of them let him know that there was a broken window in the back of the office.

He went outside to look, and sure enough, a large window had been broken; it looked as though someone had thrown a brick through it. But he was confused because the rest of the office was undisturbed, and the front door had been locked when he came in.

He went back inside, and went to the back office to investigate, opened the door to the office where the window was broken, and there - was a deer. The deer had leaped through the window and the blinds and was just standing there until he opened the door, at which point said deer ran out the front door. 

Adding to that, my doctor said, two days ago, he'd hit an entirely different deer (or so we THINK....) with his car...except actually, he'd slammed on the brakes so hard, the deer had run away and the car was undamaged.

"But," he said, "I'm starting to feel as though I'm being stalked by deer."
Actually, my favorite part of the story is the thought of the burglar deer standing quietly in the back office for a few hours while the doctor saw several patients....

Online dating is beyond insane. Here's why:

The internet itself is a beautiful way of connecting all of us in a way that we never could connect before.  But, the downside is, it also connects all the nut jobs to the other nut jobs, strengthening their conviction that because there ARE other nut jobs, maybe they themselves aren't quite so nut jobby.

Also.

No matter how much you chat with someone or even talk on the phone, *nothing* prepares you for meeting in person.  It's still basically a total stranger.

AND.

I've had something like 6 dates in the last two months.  SIX!  Before the internet, you would be lucky if you MET one person in a three month period.  The connectivity now is beyond insane.  But I also have to guess that because you rarely met people back then, when you did, you at least *tried* to make it work out..  Now?  There's such a plethora of people to meet, you can disregard someone just because you don't like their username.

I know, right?

People have been telling me for years I should start a blog.  I love to write,  I don't mind pontificating, and I like attention.  :-)  So, yeah, maybe.   And yet, for now, I'm not telling anyone abut this...I just want to have a place to keep my random thoughts and random writings.  Of course, I could just as easily keep them in a Word document on my computer....hmm.