No offense to Ryan, but I don't want to work in Minnesota. Yet, MONSTER.COM keeps sending me job notices for Minnesota.  I don't want them.  I have studied my profile from every blinking angle to see if I accidentally clicked on something that says "send me jobs in Minnesota ONLY" but I didn't.  Grrr.  So, I just disabled the whole "send me search results" option.  Hope that helps.  No, no, no-- I'm not trying to find a replacement for my new position already.  Just doing a little bit of pre-work for the move to Virginia. Checking things out. Compiling a list of places who may be hiring.

So, the other night, I was watching tv and a commercial for eHarmony came on.  A small niggling part of me wondered if there really are that many "perfect for me" people on the site.  But, I quickly remembered all of the bad bad experiences I've had in the past and quickly squashed the urge to log in.  Then, I went to work and had to call a customer who sounded pretty interesting on the phone.  While I was looking at his account, I noticed that he had a charge for eHarmony.  So, that night, I logged into eHarmony, hoping I could "browse" for the guy and see what age group he fell into and if it was worth my while to use my phone sex voice the next time I called him.

Turns out eHarmony doesn't have a browse function unless you register so I had to answer a bunch of questions just to get to the search thing... and by then, I was kind of frustrated with the whole thing.  I mean, they ask you 101 ways the same basic questions -- "how important are looks?", "Are you attractive?" and few other "mood" indicating questions.  There was one section where I had to select 10 things that are total turnoffs and I wanted to check the whole darn list. 

I digress.  I wasn't able to "browse" for the guy.  So, I created a profile for nothing.  Then, to add insult to injury, I had no matches.  None.  I guess honesty really isn't the best policy...  guess maybe I should go back and change a few answers?   Now, I'm getting spammed out the wazoo by them asking me to "upgrade" my membership (pay for it) and meet "quality" people.  Maybe they withhold matches until you fork over money?  Dunno.   I went in this afternoon and deleted it.  Sorry Dr. Clark or whatever his name is.  No success story here.

Now, I'm heading off to bed.   Happy mother's day (what's left of it) to everyone because let's face it, if it weren't for you (or me), our mother's wouldn't have a day to celebrate.  ;)