it's about meeting people and making friends, the dating comes second. It's really popular in the Boston area these days. saved me after my divorce... 'cuz no way I'm going back to online dating.

isn't it the generation of women who were the guinea pigs for the first edition super-high dose birth control pills the demographic that was hit worst with breast cancer? I never hear the science community talk about it, but I've heard about it speaking to women on the topic.

also, all the chemicals that the bodies recognize as phyto estrogens probly hold a large part.

If I see a puddle of toxic swill I stay the heck away from it.

Don't give the misogynists any sense of power by taking them seriously, or heck, even listening to them.

Laugh at them then move on, that's my favorite M.O.

I'm sticking with meetup . com . I've met so many great interesting guys on there who go out and do stuff and not just sit home as entitled couch potatoes shopping for women as if they were shopping for cell phones on ebay.

meetup lets you organize yourself into groups, and people get together to hike, read books, kayak, eat nice dinners, see movies... no one lists their age, religion, cleanliness. And no, I don't work for them. But the site's kinda saved me after going through this divorce I'm going through. Meeting new people is all I need. People know people. And I've met some really nice people on there.

good luck

how can a person reveal EVERYTHING that they used to be? It would be overwhelming. Just put it in the category of, 'not-relevant'... unless perhaps you _want_ to shake his foundation... 'cuz you'd be, in essence, testing him, wouldn't you?

i.e. I used to have a crush on Donny Osmond, I don't tell any guys that I date that. Not relevant, 'cuz I grew out of it - and wouldn't want to be judged on something so pre-history.

r.i.p.

I loved her children's books when I was little, made me challenge myself learning about the advanced physics concepts like tesseracts, other dimensions, and stuff. A Wrinkle in Time might even be the source of my interest in these ideas and the reason I'm an electrical engineer now. (which I go back and forth on, cursing and praising).

Here's to ya, Madeleine L'Engle. Well done.

I believe an element of this is the fear of land mines left in the forest, no?

Costa Rica, with a similar landscape, is flooded with nature tourism while the El Salvadorian forests remain free of people.

I love my roomba (I call 'im "8ball") but one day I came home from work and found a crime scene.

My laptop was lying on it's back under the kitchen table while 8ball was hiding under the ottoman chewing away on the iMac's power cord. It "rrrrr'd" and beeped as it probably had been for the past hour trying to gobble up what it could of the cable. I swear it looked guilty as I pulled it out from underneath the furniture and yanked the wire out of it's mouth.

I got 8ball back on his homebase and did triage. I had left the laptop on the kitchen table and made the unforgivable sin of not checking to make sure it's power cable wasn't touching the floor, I just left for work without even thinking about how I was leaving the laptop in such a vulnerable position. 8ball came across the wire, wouldn't let it go, and eventually was able to pull it's victim completely off the table. Luckily, the laptop lived (what a trooper), but the power cord was beyond repair.

The guys in the Apple store thought this was hysterical,

'specially since I had to shell out ~$70 to get a new cord.

I still do. I'm going through a divorce and I'm sick to death of talking about it. I got married in the past year so I'm still getting "How's married life?" which tells me my friends are slacking on the gossiping.

I want the news to spread like a virus: "He took off his mask Scooby-do style after they got married and revealed himself to be an uber-religious, lazy, republican, womanizing, verbally abusive, multiple personality, halfwit, so she kicked him out. She doesn't like talking about it, just so you know."

Forward.

Repeat.

trust me, gossip serves it's purpose.

I wish I didn't read this letter, it breaks my heart.

'cuz what are the chances that this guy is NOT going to screw up this little child's life indelibly, no matter what action he takes.

And so it goes, a new f'ed up generation.

I can only hope the brother with the conscious can add some stability to the situation somehow. Go LW!

I've been downloading on netflix lately, luv it. I've got some old tv series in my queue that I can watch this way. The 'first run' dvds aren't downloadable with their 'Watch It Now' feature, but they will be in the not to distant future.

When dvds go the way of cds what will Blockbuster do with all their brick and morter stores?

I'm sticking to netflix.