Taking a "what soft drink am I?" quiz, it turns out that I'm my favorite softdrink. Then I took a New Year's Resolution one for the hell of it.

You are the original and therefore very popular. You also have those really cool polar bears representing you. But you have a bad after taste. Find your inner cola.

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And on to meaningful subjects: dating through the seasons. The following is a post I made on a forum recently.

Everybody who replied said it was the opposite for them. They had many more dates in the summer. One guy mentioned that he did more stuff outside during the summer, which he thought had a lot to do with it. As simple as this sounded, it really got me thinking about my own dating patterns.

When I think back and do a count, I've dated 8 women over the past 3 years. I'm pretty sure I'm not forgetting anybody. I'm not including my Tantra instructor, my married swinging friends who invited me over for "play time", the lady in the back room of that bordello in that foreign country, or the various cyber flirts that I came so close to meeting in person (but didn't). These weren't dates. But anyway, of the 8, I met 7 of them on-line. Two were women that I emailed first, the other 5 emailed me first. I knew five from the same longhaired men site, one through a Satanism site, and one from a personal ads site.

Or is it coincidental? Maybe I'm just used to women approaching me first, and most of them do this when it's winter and they're inside trying to keep warm. And since they're inside, they spend more time on-line. Or is that over-simplifying the whole reason why I don't happen to date over the summer? I don't know, but it's a new found part of the equation.