Living in the Present, only Looking Forward

[Coconut]

So I decided to send this message to the other two (ranch lady and fishing girl):

"I really can't figure out if you want to chat or are just being polite. You keep replying to me, but the short responses don't leave me with much to respond to.

If you're not interested in talking, I won't take it personally, but if you would like to talk, please give me more than just a short comment or response to what I said."

So I rcvd a response from both, I hesitate to provide this type of info, because I don't really feel like I "have much game", so that can be a little Embarassing, but I've learned so much about R's from this board and I feel like I may continue to learn if I continue to post. even doodlers comment about using comedy opened my eyes to not make everything so serious, and I like the idea of filtering out the "takes life too seriously" types.

Fisher girl responded first with "at work", so I waited until evening and replied "damn autocorrect, I meant to say "so you like fishing and camping, do you enjoy kayaking? :-)"". She replied "don't kayak but love the outdoors". So again with the short responses to what I say. I deleted the emails and done trying to chat, which is too bad, because we do have a lot of activities in common.

Rancher Lady replied this morning, "Awww, Jeez, already telling me what to do, lololol!! I honestly don't take anyone all that seriously (or consider them to be a real person) until I've actually met them." I liked and respected that reply, so I wrote back:
"Not as much telling you what to do as letting you know what I need to continue chatting. At least I now understand and it makes sense to me, I'm really new to this online thing and assumed (bad move on my part) that the idea was to chat online to see if there is anything in common and if so then meet.

Anyway, I would like to meet you and would prefer something casual at first. I am going out kayaking tomorrow morning, but would like to meet tomorrow early afternoon, like 1 or 2pm, if your available (and up for it)."

One thing I learned on this site is that I'm a "nice guy", it's natural for me to tread lightly and just do what the other person wants to do to make them happy. I'm trying to change that, and tell people what I want, but I do worry that I sometimes explain too much and need to stfu. Hopefully I can stick to what I want while being considerate of others, so feel free to tell me when I'm doing it wrong.

Anyway, I've had my coffee, whatched my favorite Saturday morning show (gold rush). It's a beautiful day out so I'm going to take my dog to a 5 mile (10 round trip) trail along a river in town and see if I can do the full round trip trail for the first time. 3 miles each way is the furthest I've done so far, but I'm thinking I want to go the whole way today.