Bought some new computer equipment, a new wireless DLink router, a Lexmark 4 in 1 printer and a speaker set for my iPod. I am now down to $3.56 of my initial backpay from Social Security so that's it on shopping till March.

My friend Kelly who uses a dating site called OkCupid found a profile of a girl that she said would be perfect for me. At her repeated insistence I finally created an account and looked at the profile. The girl was attractive, well read, into music, working on a Masters Degree in MIS, divorced and has a 9 year old son. She also dug guys who wore fedoras.

So I posted a picture of me in my hat. Which when I went back to the site the next morning she had rated the photo. This encouraged me. So I filled out my profile and planned on emailing her to see if I could attract her attention further. Two minutes after I finish the profile she IM's me through the site and we talked all day Saturday and Sunday. Today she worked from home so we chatted some more and decided to meet and see if we hit it off. I already told her in advance that even if this doesn't go anywhere romantically at least I have met a really cool person.

So we had dinner tonight, smoked cigarettes, talked for two hours. Then ran errands to get some things for her son. When it was time to drop me off. We sat in the driveway for a few minutes and talked. And not knowing what else to do I moved in to kiss her. She kissed me back and pulled me in closer. So I asked her if we should consider this a date and she said yes. I told her I would like to see her again and that I had a wonderful evening. She agreed she had too and wanted to see me again as well.

Oh and her name is Christine.

The rest of this week will be busy as well as this weekend. Getting utilities switched to my name. Tracking down whether or not a bill has been settled. Getting a new cell phone. Then the actually heavy lifting. So I might not get to see her again till next week. But there's always IM and phone calls till then.