Confessions of a delinquent blogger

There are inherent challenges in writing a blog on which you mock your bad dates. First, there’s the challenge you hope against hope for: a good date. One that leads to a second. And so on, and so on. What’s funny about that? Of course, even a good guy and a good relationship are not above mockery. After all, we can always find things to mock about our friends and family members. At least I can. So, should such an unlikely event occur, the blog would be forced to morph, but it could go on.

But what to do when you have no dates at all? What if you find yourself surrounded by happy couples announcing engagements and flaunting their affection, and, rather than finding humour in your ongoing solo status, you’re contemplating the nearest bridge? What if you’ve been convinced that online dating absolutely doesn’t work, your friends have exhausted their supplies of fix-up material, the dating service you’ve invested in can only produce one boring, horribly mismatched date every two months, and random meetings almost never happen, and when they do, you suddenly see the advantage in dating methods that allow for basic pre-screening? What to blog about then?

That is my excuse for my prolonged absence. And what a sorry excuse it is. But the truth is, I just haven’t come up with anything funny to write. So I apologize to whoever is left out there to read this. I have been a bad blogger indeed.

But things are looking up, if not in life, then at least in blog fodder. The overpriced dating service finally materialized again, so we have another $114 dating story to look forward to tomorrow. And I am giving the hideous world of online dating another chance, if for no other reason than the fact that having no dates at all is even more depressing than a series of bad ones. I'm also exploring some activity-based ideas in which, potentially, there may be the chance to meet a prospect or two.

So if I haven’t lost you yet, stay tuned. And thanks.