Subject: The beach, first dates, and burglary

Yes, a lot of has happened since I last wrote. I went to the beach for a few days with Stacey. We stayed with her family in Havelock, NC and spent considerable time at Atlantic Beach. Of course, I got burned. It has progressed from unbearable pain to excessive itching as it is pealing. (oh the things we go through for a tan!).

As I was writing this blog originally two days ago, I got a call from Bridger informing me that our house had been broken into. Evidently sometime during the days some jerks crow barred our back door and the guys next door. They took mostly electronic things from the guys and they took nearly all of Lisa's good jewelry. It's horrible and it just makes us all suspicious and feel unsafe at our own home now. Needless to say...a little after the fact we are all getting renter's insurance pronto. Lisa may be able to at least get some money to replace the jewelry under her dad's policy..just waiting to see. The police came, fingerprinted, etc...but as Lisa said "it's no CSI". They didn't seem able to get much.

First date...yes I met up with this guy that I had met through match.com. I would not have met him so quickly if I had not known he was not a psycho killer from a mutual friend. It went ok..it is so awkward at first and who knows what to talk about. I don't know quite what to say about myself. I think it went ok.  He asked me out again for Friday..so I suppose I did not scare him off yet. Seems that I may have lost contact with the friend I made in Louisville. Don't really know what happened, I just haven't heard from him. That is really disappointing. Speaking of dating, women should check out this article on dating....it goes along with most of theory that seems to be going around by women in their 20's. Basically, men are not ready for relationships at the same time as we are and this results in a problem. I won't rant and rave all about this too much today..perhaps another time.