So my date went well!

At first it didn’t look as if it would happen – he had car problems on the way home from work and wasn’t sure whether he’d make it, but he called a friend of his who worked on cars who was able to get it running safely so that he could come and pick me up. He then had this friend wait at his house while we were on our date so that he could fix the car when we got back.

I thought that this was a pretty valiant effort, when he could have just canceled. I was impressed that he went through all that rather than just rescheduling.

Also, what a good friend!

We wound up going to have drinks at a local bar very close to my house because he didn’t want to stray too far due to the fragility of his starter at that moment. It was sort of divey, but I was down.

It should be noted that he opened the car door for me every time, which was awesome. I find that men very rarely do this, and it pretty much melts my knees.

He seemed sort of shy and nervous, but he opened up after half a screwdriver or so and started to talk more, and we shot the shit for a while. He has a somewhat wicked sense of humor, which I love, and he’s very into music, a lot of it very obscure stuff I’m not familiar with, but some of it punk rock and other stuff I really like.

I was very good – I only had two beers. Plus, we didn’t stay out very long due to the friend waiting to fix the starter.

All in all, he was courteous and funny and really nice, and I will definitely see him again. We made plans to have dinner very soon.

He kissed me at the end of the date, and it was good. Very good.

So, we shall see.

I’m all about stretching this process out and not jumping headfirst into a relationship. I think that’s a major mistake I made with Norton. Everything happened so fast and I got caught up without really knowing enough about his personality and principles, and well, it crashed and burned.

I’m taking this one slow.

In other news, I posted some furniture on Craigslist today and Jesus, I am getting about four thousand e-mails. This is certainly going much better than when I posted the sporting goods. I have a woman coming tonight to look at the J-Man’s loft bed, and hopefully my mom’s dresser is going to sell soon, too.

Happy Wednesday.

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