Yeah, yeah, I know... You think I'm selling out by putting a cheesy "Love Compatibility" test on my site. You do, dontcha?

But let me explain.

The Yahoo/GeoCities server, on which this site currently resides, offers free html code for various "Add-on" services. (And much of that stuff is even more cheesy than this test thingy. Okay!?) I wanted to try out an application or two as an experiment. And besides, I needed to add something to this section of the site so that it doesn't feel neglected and envious while it watches me upload copiously to other sections.

So take the test and be mildly entertained for a brief moment, or don't take it. It's no skin off of my nose either way. —BD

For purposes of quality assurance and/or plausible deniability, I took the test myself. My sign is Carpicorn. The "love compatibility" meter indicated that I would be most compatible with those whose signs are Taurus or Cancer.

Well, I was married to a Cancer for 21 years. (Sounds like the straight line for a joke, doesn't it? Or the statement could pass for the premise, say, of a cheesy 1950s black-and-white sci-fi B-movie. Right?)

That marriage ended years ago. And so it goes. But for a marriage to have lasted that long, one might expect that there was some good measure of compatibility throughout much of it. And, yes, there was. Still, it failed utterly, ultimately due to some irreconcilable incompatibilities, I suppose. And so it goes. And so it goes.

Anyway,... At some now-forgotten moment during that relationship, I was compelled to write this little bit of doggerel that I wish to share with you now:

She's Cancer and I'm Capricorn
I know that isn't much to note
But the way she crabs all day
Really gets my goat

Ta-da! —BD