Dear J
Hi again, [J].
Answering your questions: I’m looking for either dating OR a serious relationship.
Now to what I do with (and on) the Internet: I conceptualize, design, develop, test, and support software systems in my current position, and am currently in the process of transitioning to supporting our latest product suite, my employer’s web site. We sell database access over the Internet and have close to 6,000 publications online – everything from Time Magazine and the New York Times, to the entire US legal code. Our customers include lawyers and paralegal types, as well as knowledge workers (people whose jobs demand that they have quick access to vast amounts of news worthy materials – reporters, journalists, and the like). They are able to query all or part of this data via the web. While our function may be likened to that of a popular Internet search engine such as yahoo.com, the services we offer are far more vast and refined. We’ve spent the last 30 years developing and refining our search engine algorithms, and building in quality check processes into our online data and acquisition processes. Users tend to retrieve fewer ‘wrong’ documents in the search results on our system. I love my job and company, can you tell? 
Your ad was a most enjoyable read. You write very well and it is easy to imagine one who writes like you, being able to make a good living doing it. I have never been in association with a writer before, so forgive my shyness. I like to write as well and do plan on writing books when I retire from computers (not for quite a while yet, but eventually). In the meantime, I get my writing fixes by jotting notes in my journal, emailing my friends, and writing letters to companies who have wronged me or a friend in some way. Amazing how much companies will work with you to remove a false charge from your account or reprimand a rude employee, if you write them a letter. The written word, in the business world at least, seems so much more persuasive than the spoken word. Perhaps that what fascinates me about writing.
Some questions that occurred to me to ask you follow. There were intentionally written to be vague. As a writer, you may find vague questions easier to answer in your own style.
• Do you enjoy life’s simple pleasures, or are you more attracted to “the finer things?”
• Do you like Frosted Flakes?
• Is your view of your “ideal man” highly detailed? That is, would you say that you are picky?
• And, are you more attracted to men who put their “best foot” forward, or those who put their “natural” foot forward? (We could talk a long time about this one.)
Well, I have to go for now. I am nursing a cold and I’m just going to go and make some mint tea and watch the news before heading off to bed.
Take care J, and write when you can.
