After last night's date, I was concerned I'd be 'outdated' with another one this afternoon...

Through a round-about circle of events, a friend gave me 'Ned's' contact info. We had a few emails, a few convo's and thought we'd meet in person. On Thursday, he suggested we meet today for lunch...

Fast forward to Saturday morning. I'm running some errands. Not a peep from 'Ned'. Figure his concept of lunch and mine are different. Just about then, he calls around 12:30. He apologized, that he had overslept. So we finalize the when/where.

I touch up my hair, change into a girly-girl skirt and bring along a tshirt, shorts, and my tevas. (We had talked about going for a walk after lunch if we wanted to continue the afternoon.) Then I slip on the floor with my freshly-moisturized feet. Puncture marks on my knees. Blood. Not good showing up with Barney bandaids on one's knees. Kinda kills the vixen look, wouldn't you agree? I slap on some of that liquid bandage stuff instead (which, by the way, doesn't work for shit!).

He is running late for lunch. He calls and says he has quite an adventure to tell me. I've seen his picture already, so there were no major surprises - he has nice blue eyes. Overall 6.89 (had he worked on the outfit, I'd bump him to maybe a 7.3) We get seated and start talking. Turns out they turned the water off to his apt complex to do some work. He had to shave using bottled water. (How sweet that he went to that effort)

Conversation was good. He's somewhat introverted. Somewhat soft-spoken but not overly so. There's a sort of quiet strength to him. He was sweet to offer to get files and stuff from my laptop (that 3 other offers had failed to follow up on)

So we decide to go on the walk. There's a park not far from where we were that has a nice hiking trail. We head over there. I put my shorts on under my skirt, take off the skirt, hop in my tevas and switch shirts. (He was gentlemanly enough to turn his back). Off we go.

I have a broken big toe. I realize that if walking on flat ground is painful, uneven elevated ground would not be better. I was screaming on the inside about the shooting pain, but I am a trooper.

We talked about a variety of things and the hike took about 2 hours. He said he'd like to get together sometime next week, I said that was cool. He was a perfect gentleman (Damn! I am kidding!). I feel comfortable with him but I just don't know if his more introverted self would mesh well with me. I'll see him again and ponder it further...

Tonight, I've been keeping my toe up, on ice, with pain meds running thru my veins. (Kinda like my poor pal Airborne...)