Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

There was recently a programme on TV called 'The Half Ton Man' about three morbidly obese men who required drastic medical intervention in order to make them lose weight and prolong their life expectancies.

There have been several similar programmes broadcast; whenever I watch them the people featured always seem to have a wife or husband. I'm not at all grossly overweight myself (6 ft. 3 ins - just under seventeen stone...medium build, I suppose) but I've never had a relationship and so I naturally get around to wondering what's wrong with me. Why must I be so lonely?

It's hard...so hard.

I've finally managed to be able to talk online with my sister in Australia, using MSN Messenger. She can hear me, but I can't hear her; so she still has to type. I'm assuming that the problem is her microphone; either it's just not working or she's not got the correct driver installed. I'm hoping that with a bit of research I might be able to tell her how to download the appropriate driver from the net...but, beyond that I can't suggest anything more except for her to buy a new microphone (with driver included.)