Steve Hammer on February 20th, 2009

It probably goes without saying that Valentine’s makes for a busy time at a dating site.  It’s just sort of amazing to me that it is.  It’s the middle of winter, everyone’s just gotten over the Christmas season, and yet we find time to dedicate a holiday to love.  Isn’t love sort of a bit [...]

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Steve Hammer on December 5th, 2008

It’s been a long strange trip, but our website has finally arrived at its final destination.  After months of negotiation, we were able to buy the domain name downtoearth.com.  For us, it’s a wonderful expression of the brand we’re trying to build in free dating.  Our mission is to be a totally free dating site [...]

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Steve Hammer on October 16th, 2008

Everyone knows about happy hour, that time just after work when you can unwind with a beer and your friends.  In my household, we have just the opposite, the unhappy hour.  Unfortunately this usually happens right around the time I get home from working on www.free-singles.com.  I’m tired, and it couldn’t happen at a worse [...]

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Steve Hammer on October 13th, 2008

In my typical crazy mode, I managed to have some fun this weekend.  Audi was kind enough to send me an invitation to test out their new car as part of the audi driving experience on Texas Motor Speedway, and I was happy to oblige.  My time was for 3pm on Sunday, and I just [...]

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Steve Hammer on September 16th, 2008

Today I had lunch in a restaurant that shall remain nameless, to protect the potentially innocent.  At the time, a shrimp quesadilla seemed like a good idea.  However, it really didn’t seem all that clever a few hours later when my stomach began churning.  It started off innocently enough, but grew to a loud clatter [...]

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