Hi nlt,

Thank you for checking in on me. Well, at the moment I am not depressed anymore.

I have not been on the board for a while. I was quite busy going out and also getting things sorted out with my silly neighbour. I told him that life is too short to argue about small things like weeding and how the garden looks, and that it is not good for his health. To my surprise he told me that I was right in this point! But we have not yet come to an agreement.

On the week-end I went to an opening of a museum extension with a girlfriend. It was very nice and in the evening I was invited to dinner by her and her boyfriend. We were lucky that we book a table indoors since later on we had a horrific storm and when I drove them home a branch of one of their trees broke off.

On Monday evening I met the interesting guy and we also spent Tuesday together. The weather was also pleasant and we went for long walks. I guess I was right – I think he is mainly looking for an affair and free accommodation. It turned out that he has been married for about ten years for the second time and has adult children. He was not very happy that I didn't want to be anything else but a friend. I quite like him because he has had a very interesting life and therefore can talk about things from all over the world. He also has a good sense of humour but otherwise he is not my type at all. He asked me to continue to stay in e-mail contact although he doesn't have time to reply. But he would like to have friends all over the world and finds it interesting to communicate that way.

XH is still trying to manipulate me. So I am going dark again. I mentioned something about "after my death" and he wrote back that I shouldn't talk of my death; it is not something he can think about. In any case he hopes that I will outlive him 20 years! – Obviously, he is still stuck in the old track.

We have had thunder storms almost every evening but the nature needed the rain badly. I just don't like driving in the rain at night.
Tomorrow I will go to some live music and I am planning something for the week-end. I am still answering some dating ads but so far I didn't get to know anybody nice yet. I also tried some paid dating sites since Vali thought it was a huge difference between free and paid ones. Well, I found the sites I tried not user friendly and a waste of time so I cancelled them again.