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in late 2006, relocated my angst, business, and social life to NoCal from SoCal ... just a 40-something chick in the 'burbs of the SF bay area who randomly posts about random topics ... the occasional quirky stories of dating (or not) at 40-ish, work-week cubeopolis frivolity, rambling musings on nostalgika, and the occasional introspective moments in life.(thanks for visiting! >p, b)

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

cCacao+ clan: day 4 interim evening

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last login ... was (kinda) yesterday evening over here: 3 clickety-clacks:7 tbd. i logged in one more time last night. i wanted to see if hitting the button find new matches actually resulted in more matches. outcome after the 60-seconds countdown on the site? ... 7 new matches. so in theory, if none of the new 7 closed me out, i'd have 3 clickety-clacks: 14 tbd.

day 4, evening ... i'm starting out with 3 clickety-clacks:15 tbd. here goes what's up. so what does this mean? it means that one more match was added. and one of the clickety-clacks responded to the first set of Qs i sent over (yippee), which means it's now my turn. needless to say, my first duty is to respond to his Qs. after that, i'll review the new 8 matches since yesterday evening and do some triage.

reading his Qs ... like his answers. and now i'm responding to his 5 multiple choice questions from the set of predetermined questions. there are 4 choices for each of the 5 questions and each with an option to write in an answer. yup! i wrote in answers. ARGHH!!!! i didn't finish 1 of the 5 questions and accidentally hit the button that threw me into the next phase. ARGHH!!! oh well.

back to the other clickety-clacks and matches ... when i checked the status if the other 2 clickety-clacks answered my Qs (or not), there is a little note that says "your match is reading your answers" (really?! already? is he asking ... "how come that sentence is not complete?").

... and then 16 matches total?! SIXTEEN?! i started with 15, and now it's at 16. this means that since yesterday evening, 9 more matches have been thrown over. that's nutty. anyway, i decided to close out only 2. my guess is that i'll login again later this evening or very early in the morning - some time after my power nap. (i've got some work that i've still got to do.)

voices in my head ... so this was a quick login -
  • clickety-clack's questions made me think "pack some bags" ... like the questions that he picked. made me think and reminds me that i do a bit more domestic travel than the passport travel; gotta get some passport trips in.
  • my woo-woo came out ... when i responded to the question about what do i think about "soul mates".
  • keeping in mind false starts ... when i read through the new matches, the 2 that i closed out had several activities for which i know i'm not as avid as the two guys described their levels of interests.
pondering: not like before ... i talked with my friend mlparkeresque this evening on the way home from work. she and i (and another friend) were on this same online service several years ago. we'd chat and commiserate and celebrate and just be supportive. a few things she and i recalled ... we only received 4-5 matches each week. the matches were thrown over on a monday or tuesday. all other days? downtime - no other matches. so this time around, with a rate of at least 7 per day and it being tuesday, i wonder how many other matches will be offered up in the week.

and now for day 4 INTERIM evening ...
  • matches still to clickety-clack = 14 (and it's very likely i'll close-out a couple more)
  • clickety-clacking = 3 (am waiting for 2 to respond and for 1 to take it to the next step)
  • closed out = 20 (i closed out 2 more this evening)
until the next login later this eve/early morn:

3 in clickety-clack | 14 tbd

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2 Comments:

Blogger JenM said...

all I can say is leave it to you to find a systematic way to approach this experience.....

Wed May 27, 06:38:00 PM PDT  
Anonymous sacto floyd said...

Someone needs to start up an online dating service called Mismatch.com. This would be based on the theory that opposites attract and would use all the people that didn't match your criteria. You can then alternate between dating peeps from match and mismatch.com.

On average, dating people from match.com and mismatch.com ought to get you backtowhereyoustarted.com. At worst, you'd end up on screwedandnotlikingit.com.

Hmm, on second thought...

Wed May 27, 10:50:00 PM PDT  

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