I recently, in a moment of reckless abandon, and clearly with way too much time on my hands, went through the old emails I had received, or had sent, from one of many other times I was participating in the meet your mate in the on line dating world cha cha cha.

A trip down memory lane, perhaps? Which ever way you slice it, it is a trip.

Clicking away, I revisited my old friends to see what they were up to. In some cases, I am delighted to report, their profiles were gone. “Perhaps” reads the text where the profile used to be “this person has met their match.”

Alternatively, I suppose, is that they have given up the ghost, returned to their former ex, or are taking a break from the reading of profiles to the reading of some quality literature. The more benevolent and optimistic me hopes it is, as the profile text reads, “because they have found their match.”

We’ll see.

And, yeah, for full disclosure, I had to look up picaresque to make sure it meant what I thought it meant.