I wonder who, if anyone (apart from people who already know me - hi Fey :) ) reads these journals? People certainly don't seem to read profiles, or at least, if they do, they don't seem to really take them in. They don't even seem to read or recall their OWN profiles! At my age I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised.

Long story short, I seem to be getting more than a few messages from women who appear to have absolutely nothing in common with me. Actually it's far worse than that, in almost every case a brief glance at their profile quickly reveals that I am in fact quite specifically NOT what they claim they want. Time after time their 'I'm looking for' laundry list (whch often reads more like a manifesto of terrorist demands made by a particularly demented and out to lunch radical splinter group) has one or more extremely clear cut clauses which exclude me on a fundamental level - hence the LOLWHUT? factor.

So, if anyone who is reading this happens to be prone to this sort of gaffe (and gaffe it is, we're way beyond 'faux-pas' territory here, let there be no doubt about that) let me try to explain. It makes you look flaky. As in 'doesn't know what she wants' flaky. As in 'kinda desperate' flaky. Verging on 'batshit insane' flaky, capische?

My advice? If you must choose a stance (any stance, and regardless of how unreasonable it might seem to other people) - then just stick to it. Choose, or choose not. How hard could that be?

This has been a public service announcement. No, really, no need to thank me, I really felt it had to be said.

My PC blew up. Pretty literally. BANG! smoke... burning smell... lights out, everything out.

Normally this wouldn't be a terrible setback, but my backup PC (which was working just fine a few months ago when pressed into service due to a dodgy graphics card on my main machine) now refuses to boot. At all. 'Not impressed' doesn't come close to describing my curent mood.

Main machine will be rebuilt. Or replaced. The forecast does not look bright for the backup system... I see a large hammer, or an axe, or maybe even a very long drop in it's not-too-distant future. I am generally less forgiving than Darth Vader, who, let's not forget, actually said 'do not fail me a second time' to some hapless imperial goon... second time? So, let me get this straight, it's ok to fail the Dark Lord of the Sith once - just don't do it a second time. Really? Not so scary after all then. Not like me, oh no...

..well, actually you could, but that's really not the point.

 

See my main profile pic? (hint - look up) Yeah, the one of me (or some other person, who can tell?) wearing a Cyberman helmet. For some time and until a very short while ago it was my only pic on here.

Anyway, I recently got an email from OKC telling me that (my main profile pic) = good-looking

No, seriously. It goes on to say -

"Warhed:

We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid's most attractive users. The scales recently tipped in your favor, and we thought you'd like to know.

How can we say this with confidence? We've tracked click-thrus on your photo and analyzed other people's reactions to you in QuickMatch and Quiver."

 

Oh. Really? Got a lot of cyborgs on OKC then have we? Who'd have thought it! - or maybe other members are just messing about and generally subverting the system? Kudos to them I guess.

Toto, something tells me we're not in Kansas any more...

 

Apparently I have to write something here to make my profile 55% complete.