> And that was the first time you two had met in person? I was under the (mistaken) impression that you two were already romantically involved prior to meeting on RinkWorks.

Yep. We'd been romantically involved for over a year-- but only through AOL Instant Messenger, of course. I mean, after all, whaddaya expect from a couple of socially inept, extremely introverted geeks who live in adjoining states? :-)

Seriously, though, I *had* tried to arrange meetings before several times; it's just that until now, something or another managed to go wrong each time and it always ended up that I couldn't go visit after all...

-- codeman"and yes, she is as RULING in real life as she is online"38