83 Reasons Why We Should Meet
- I rock.
- I'm taller than you and your last boyfriend
- I will cook for you.
- My name rhymes with "orange"
- I'll make you laugh
- I've seen the Marfa Lights
- Very good foot and back rubs
- I'm a vast compendium of questionable knowledge
- I'm not a competitive macho idiot
- You'll look great in my dress shirts
- I don't have any relatives in Austin. So no lunch with mom
- Unlike many men here, I am actually single
- Modesty prevents me from telling you this reason
- I'm always happy to see you
- Because you don't want to end up with a house full of cats
- Because nothing says love like the internet
- I'm NOT too sexy for my clothes
- Challenge me intellectually, I'll challenge back
- I'd love to have dinner with Tony Bourdain, you can join us
- I have used these in conversation: myriad, exsanguination, paroxysm, Bosphorus, kitty
- I won't annoy you with reasons my iPhone is superior
- I don't have a "creepy flesh colored beard"
- I've blogged since July 1996
- I used to think that Corona was a good beer
- I send strange birthday t-shirts to my niece just to annoy my brother
- You can Google me
- I've never done anything stupid on YouTube, Facebook or MySpace
- Don't take me to an Italian restaurant unless I am wearing red
- I cut this down to 83 reasons out of respect of your busy schedule
- I am actually a lot of fun
- I'm not weird, just lovably eccentric
- I'll never warm my cold feet on your back (well, maybe once)
- I won't look in your medicine cabinet
- I shower every day, with water (and soap)
- I'll always hold a door for you
- I will never be mean to you or use my superhuman powers of sarcasm to make you feel bad
- I know that EVERYONE "likes to have fun"
- I have never been on a milk carton
- You can tell everyone we met at a park or something
- I can properly pronounce Mexia, Burnet, Waxahachie & Manchaca
- I think anime is creepy
- No relation to Marilyn Chambers
- I've never been to a sporting event nor watched one voluntarily
- I am supremely proud to be a humble man
- My whole family is remarkably sane, cool & free of drama
- I threw a Ton-80
- I have 3 two-syllable names
- I understand almost every XKCD
- You are always the most attractive woman in the room
- I'll fix your PC, Mac or home network
- Weeds, The Soup, Dirty Jobs, Dexter, Burn Notice
- I know that match criteria is an oxymoron
- You know what they say about left handed men!
- I smuggle snacks into movies for fun
- I am remarkably free of prejudice
- George Clooney doesn't live in Austin
- It won't bother me if you have a bed-side drawer full of dead batteries
- Favorite drink: tepid hot dog water
- I can't sing but I have a really great speaking voice
- I know where the best BBQ in N. Austin is
- I am respectful of your beliefs & opinions & love a good debate
- 4 gray hairs. So yes I am distinguished looking
- You can safely introduce me to friends & family
- I may have already won the lottery
- I smell good
- I'll cook you breakfast
- Clean spare bathroom and toiletries
- I can't stop (re)writing this
- I will send flowers
- I don't watch "Cops" & no one I know has ever been ON "Cops"
- I won't eat off your plate, unless you say it's OK
- I know that attraction is not about pictures & words
- I've never eaten squirrel meat
- I lived in a town in NJ with a suggestive name
- Big shoes and big gloves
- I know the difference between to, too & two
- I make excellent arm-candy
- I think Twitter is stupid
- I should really stop writing this soon
- I know that all of our interests won't mesh, that's what makes it fun
- Goal here: get off OK Cupid forever
- I am really good at making lists
- If you have read this far you have invested too much time anyway, so why not!

Enjoying the ride.

Also, not spending it on the road. You need to live in or near Austin. If you don't, well sorry that is not for me.

Making snarky comments about silly questions on dating websites. Holding up my end of the conversation on our first, and subsequent, dates. Responding in a gentlemanly fashion to all emails you send me.

I'm tall and do not bear a striking resemblance to Daniel Craig.

Love SF and read it almost exclusively. I get almost all of my news and info online. Last few movies I saw are Inglorious Basterds, District 9, Up, Monsters VS Aliens. Cuisines? I Love Chinese, Vietnamese (Pho!), Mexican, BBQ (Mann's!). But not so much Japanese and Indian.

An Albatross named Edgar
4cm of my left forearm
Lentil soup with bacon (mmmmm, bacon!)
Friends & Family
Someone to love
Something that hangs, right there in mid air. Just like bricks don't.
A personal apology to Douglas Adams (wait that's 7)

Who "Head Baltar and Head Six" really were.
What I would be doing if I had stayed in Lufkin Texas in 1982 (long story) but really not a lot of time, just something that occurred to me when I was thinking about what to write here. I mean how much CAN one write about Lufkin Texas?

...hoping to find someone to spend most of them with.

If you ask me a question about something personal in a (at least semi) private setting I will almost always answer you. But to get you started.
31
A waterbed
twice
I thought so at the time

Sorry ladies I don't do long distance. So if you live in Buda, or Canyon Lakes or Taylor or Waco or Dallas or Houston or even that four mile on LaGrange, the most that will happen is a cup of coffee the next time you are in town. Life is too short to spend half of it on the interstate.