Nice To Sort Of Meet You

In less than a week, I managed to "meet" quite a few guys with actual potential.  The pay site is producing more winners than the free one. I'm sure it has something to do with needing a source of income to pay for a membership, but maybe not.  Here's a quick rundown of some of the new guys in my life:

• Rocketman - met on the free site. Stable job, older than me, all-around good guy who enjoys typical man things (sports, bbq, outdoors, dogs, etc) and lives outside the city.
• Soccerdoc - met on free site. Another guy with a stable job who is older than me. Plays soccer and is proud of his PhD. Lives outside the city.
• Musicmaker - another free site guy. He's in a band and wants to be rich & famous one day. He's also a couple years younger than me but lives relatively close to my new home.
• Zydecool - another guy from the free site who is in a band. A year younger and lives in the city. Also a really, REALLY big fan of instant message. You know those people who, within seconds of you logging into FB or AIM, are all "hey what's up?" Yeah, he's one of those.
• Sgt Smartguy - met on paid site. He's in the military stationed in the city and is incredibly intelligent. He fulfills the nerd in me with lengthy emails about politics and books and museums. He's also a couple years older than me.
• Dr Funnyman - from the paid site. A med school graduate with a real job and a future who also likes football and can make me laugh very easily. He's a year younger, lives in the city and tends to stay busy (or fake it really well).

All of these started with a message (none of them started with a wink... don't get me started on those guys. I'll save them for another post).  Phone numbers have been swapped with Rocketman, Sgt Smartguy and Dr Funnyman.  Sgt Smartguy called me last night, but I was at work and missed out on a real conversation.  Rocketman and Dr Funnyman are big fans of texting, which I find to be more convenient anyway.  The other 3 wanted to be friends on Facebook, which I agreed to because you can learn a whole lot more about a person when their friends and family members are involved in their posts.  I feel like it also says something about each guy's character whether he chooses FB, text or phone calls. I haven't figured out what yet, but when I do maybe it'll help out in my search.  At the very least, I think the guys who decided phone number swapping was the next logical step seem a little more serious about their search for love.