Following up on our homely little dating service, Nadine met with “the candidate” yesterday. Unfortunately, she was not Gary’s type and probably if she had brought a photo of herself, full frontal nudity, as Gary had suggested, it would have been a bad idea to actually show it to him.
So Nadine did not bother showing her the photo I had taken of him. Thinking quickly, she deftly maneuvered the direction of the encounter by saying Gary was still working through his grief, and happened to now be “out of town” because “he travels a lot” and she took the woman’s number. All of the above is true, but just not true right now. A friend of Nadine’s (this took place in the health club cafeteria) was an onlooker, had been filled in earlier about what Nadine was up to, and remarked to her afterwards that she should have gotten “an academy award”.

We’ll keep looking.

Meanwhile, I have lost my cell phone. It dropped out of my little carrying case while I was walking. It was old. Maybe I lost it on purpose because it had to be charged every 10 hours, because the screen was muddy and scarred, because even with a clear screen, I could hardly see what it said and “just because”. I use Boost and Motorola is their phone of choice so I went on line and tried to buy one and the Amazon website added the item to my cart, and did not give me a way to complete the buy much less add a car charger. So I got annoyed and clicked out.

Local stores are hard to reach too, because I’d like to learn first if they have the model I want and getting through to them is also difficult. I hate to drive a half an hour and come up empty. It used to be a lot easier to get things done.

xx, Teal