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Hi Bill, I was just getting up to take a bath when I saw your posts & I guess my initial thoughts are that there are several different types of personalities.. the salesmen is the one that you described gets the coffee date & (maybe more?)..

you are the engineering personality.. You will be more detailed & thorough in everything you do & encounter. You will think more than be spontaneous. this will turn some women off & some on.

The engineering mind will also have more of a cynical approach toward God during mid life examination..(which I think you are in & probably have been for a bit of time)

You are very analytical & for me the spontaneous, fly by seat of pants type, it is very foreign. I understand it intellectually but can't find it within myself (does that make any sense?)

I give you credit for accepting that you are where you are now because of choices you made. I don't think you are in hour final chapter yet however.. so you have plenty of time to be the type of person you were not earlier.

I think that the famous saying.. "the unexamined life is not worth living" is a good one. You are deeply examining & will come out of it much stronger & a better person.

I am going to let Kate, ohio & Max chime in with their ideas (and anyone else who would like)

Thanks for being open & giving us the opportunity to share. I see you are an evening person also(another advantage you have over me right now, I am a strong morning person & a ho hum, mediocre person in PM)...

I see you are an evening person also(another advantage you have over me right now, I am a strong morning person & a ho hum, mediocre person in PM)...

On a much lighter note, I'm currently a "trying to rearrange my computer room" kind of person. I need more room for more cages, and that means finding things to put somewhere else. I spent part of the afternoon moving a bookcase into my bedroom.

The next step that I need to make is changing my "desk." In 1986, I moved out of the dorms without permission and without a refund. I had to go very cheap on everything, and I ended up with a "desk" made of an old masonite door cut to five feet in length and propped between two small, steel shelf units. I think the door cost about $5 to buy and maybe that much to have cut with a new edge put where the cut was made. The shelf units probably cost about $15 together. They've been my desk for the past twenty years, and I hate to let them go. On the other hand, something smaller would give me more room and not collect as much junk as I put on this big, horizontal surface.

I'm currently sitting here with a tape measure looking at things, taking a measurement, trying to think of a different arrangement, and then starting over. One way or another, I'll find the right combination eventually.

Bill