Closure: Part 2 of ?: Are we there yet?

Just a wee pre-weekend update:

I set the friendship boundaries with SMcG. I think he is such a good person, and I'm glad he can handle being friends. I feel immensely better having settled the matter (at least in my own mind). SMcG, in addition to other (non-Jewish) people to whom I tried to explain this (you know who you are!), still doesn't get the somewhat ambiguous but important religious factor. But we are able to play our sports as friends, and I'm so glad for that.

Received a follow-up email from Funny Guy, promising friendship and asking to get together again. I'm definitely up for friendship, so I'm holding off on replying to his email so that I transmit the "just friends" vibe.

Received a follow-up email from Bike Guy, reiterating that he had a good time and that he was looking forward to our next meeting. I sent a reply back, saying I had a good time too, and included some links to stuff we'd talked about, and proposed getting together on Tuesday. He replied again, so I sent another message indicating I was trying to come up with something creative for our next meeting, and wanted to know what time he'd be free in the evening. I haven't heard back from him in almost 48 hours. Now, I'm not saying this delay is unreasonable, I guess I'm just a little disappointed--I wanted to trade a few more emails between now and then. And of course, part of me is thinking the worst, like oh no, I scared him off with trying to be creative! I didn't ask enough questions! I didn't respond to something he said! And then another part of me is kind of relieved that he's not responding right away because that means he's not too into me. Or is he trying to transmit the "just friends" message? It's all kinds of crazy up in here.

He responded with a nice and witty email confirming a time for Tuesday. Heh.