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10/26/2002 Archived Entry: "Welcome to Geekly.com"

Ok, so it's a lark, but it's a fun and somewhat interesting lark.

After telling numerous stories about the weirdness I see on a regular basis, it occurred to a friend of mine that perhaps I should spread my stories around. That way at least I'd be forced to tell new ones to the people I know to avoid boring them to an early grave.

So...a story. Since I am about to be married (20 days from this writing), I will tell the story of Jen.

Jen is a sweet Alabama girl I met over the internet (No, I will not tell you how or where). I was interested in her almost immediately after she contacted me directly because she just exudes this nice innocent honesty. She's sweet without being dumb. She constantly surprises me by caring about me in very obvious ways and then turning around and intuitively understanding something quite deep. Maybe that sounds crass, but it's been rare in my life that I've met people who are both smart and nice. Usually it seems to be one or the other. The ones I have met with both qualities I have kept as close friends.

Two weeks after Jen and I started talking, I won an Alaskan Cruise for 7 days for two people. The thing with that is, I had no one to go with. I didn't want to share a small cruise cabin with any of my smelly male friends. So I asked Jen and she (after proving to her and her mother that I really did win a cruise and really wasn't a psycho) agreed to go with me. It was a wonderful week, better than I had thought possible. I fell in love with her before, during, and after the cruise and have just been more and more in love with her since.

I took a trip to Alabama, met her folks, and asked her to marry me. Of course it's a bit more complicated than that, but pretty close to the truth. Her mother is great, her stepfather is easily a favourite person of mine, her father is a bit of a dork. Not much I can do with that.

Since then we've been planning the marriage (in white gold), planning her move, planning the ridiculously stupid immigration hoops we are going to have to jump through. We marry in 20 days and I can't wait :)

Standing in a little tiny room with 40 people watching us say vows and swap rings though...that's something I could wait longer for.

Ah well, if you do it right, you only have to do it once.