If they get on your tits, your whole quality of life is wrecked.

And there was I thinking you liked that sort of thing.

Plus, there's just something nice about having a guy around.

Go guy, choose guy. Or monkey.

I have updated my profile again, having realised that it lacked the one crucial ingredient. See if you can guess what it was; "My Ideal Partner" now reads as follows:

Someone who cares about others, who believes intelligent conversation is a tautology and who treats their life as an ongoing journey linking the past and the future. A fondness for echidnas wouldn't hurt, unless you take it so far as to cuddle them. If you let me cook for you, I will treat you like a goddess ("Please accept these burnt offerings").

And there was I thinking you liked that sort of thing.

There's a minimum skill set requirement, billytea.

Go guy, choose guy. Or monkey.

Make sure the monkey can pay rent. Also, in the interview watch closely for feces-flinging.

who believes intelligent conversation is a tautology

What do you mean by the above, that "intelligent" and "conversation" is a needless repetition (that is to say, in order to be conversation, it has to be intelligent), or something else?

Yeah, no monkeys, I'm afraid. We've already got the two pets who don't help with rent. Don't need any more.

My landlord is doing something in the hallway, and it keeps freaking me out, 'cause he's dropping things or something and making a lot of weird noise. Neither of my roommates are up, so I keep thinking someone is lurking in the hallway. At least it's light out.

Reporter guy is very cute. You wouldn't lack for scenery when he's there.

Billytea's profile has ruined me for all other online dating profiles, all of which are strangely lacking in echidnas. Billytea, you mentioned nature photography. A friend who does mostly nature photography has two shows now, one of which is a project for the Wilderness Society. Here's some of her work -- [link]

What do you mean by the above, that "intelligent" and "conversation" is a needless repetition (that is to say, in order to be conversation, it has to be intelligent), or something else?

Yup, that's the one.

Billytea's profile has ruined me for all other online dating profiles, all of which are strangely lacking in echidnas.

Well, exactly. I like to think of it as my comparative advantage.

Billytea, you mentioned nature photography. A friend who does mostly nature photography has two shows now, one of which is a project for the Wilderness Society. Here's some of her work -- [link].

Ooh, nice pics. Good sense of patterns in nature.

Timelies!!

Today I'm going to Grandma E's for a cook out, it's this after noon which is fine. But I had planned to run down to the beach and get a couple of fans that are there, since no one's been ot the beach all summer and I could really use those fans.

I haven't been enthusastic about going to the beach, but it's so hot, it makes even that uncomfortable. The high today is supposed to be about 97 with a heat index of 105. I wish there was some way we could skip August.

The high today is supposed to be about 97 with a heat index of 105.

That's about what it's going to be here, and we have no beach. I intend to stay inside and toast Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning.

I meant to say earlier how incrediably cute Toto is in the birthday pictures.