Online dating.

I think I've mentioned this before. I "joined" an online dating thingy (the YAHOO one) a few months ago. When I say "joined", I mean I filled in my free profile and let it sit there, dropping by the odd time to see what's on offer (ahem).

I live in a fairly small city and I'm not really that mobile so I've never really thought that it made sense to actually pay up the cash because the (meagre) search results don't return a lot that takes my fancy. I did actually sign up once to, I think, udate.com when I was travelling around New Zealand a few years ago. It seemed the easiest way to make friends (and my co-workers weren't up to much) and I wasn't really looking for anything other than someone I could share a laugh with (and they could show me around their city/country). It was far too much like hard work, let me tell you. I felt I was jumping through so many hoops just to get one or two people to meet, and I think that's also kinda put me off using these things in future, whether it be for friends or something less platonic.

I do know of others who have had quite good luck with them, though they don't live anywhere near me and in larger cities, too. As I said, I'm reticent about shelling out the cash for it, but then again, why not? It's not as if my current social life is providing any extra friends, platonic or not.

Arse etc.

Sometimes, reading back on my own blog and posting on it depresses me. I've read around other blogs and I see people posting huge pieces almost on a daily basis, whereas I can barely scrape together enough to post once a week. That, in turn, has the knock on effect where I can forget all about the blog and don't post when I do think of something. Now, I know I've said before that I don't post here for other people's entertainment, but it would be nice to know that sometimes, enough happens in my life that I can make frequent, meaningful posts to the blog (especially without sounding like a loser who's only thinking of getting laid).

I think there's more to it than me just getting laid, of course. I think that I'm still uncomfortable with people identifying this blog with me. While I could simply write a blog that I'd happily be associated with, there wouldn't be any of the more personal posts about my love live (or lack thereof), but would simply be silly posts and moans about my job, for example.

Let's see what happens, but I really can't see any good reason to continue posting to the blog.

All this and only four days off of my first blog anniversary, too. Mid-blog crisis?