Down On Ferry Farm

I laughed at this. I wasn't going to put this on my blog, but I've set a precedent so I figured it was okay. Do you know the name Thomas F. Wilson... no? How about -- the guy who played Biff Tannen in the "Back To The Future" trilogy? Now you're ready. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y

You know, I’ve learned a lot about myself recently. Things I didn’t want to believe. Things you tell yourself as you’re drifting off to sleep so you’ll forget them by the morning. There are things we whisper in the shower that we could never say aloud. I was at a wine festival this weekend. My sister works for the company who was sponsoring it so we spent a lot of time in this roped-off area with a very select crowd. There were some women there. Of course by now you realize that I have women issues. There are also some party crashers there. One of the guys my sister works with said “I’m waiting for my friends to show up, can you let them in when they get here”. He said this to the lady that was organizing the whole thing… not to me. Anyhow, a while later these three guys were at the corner of the roped-off area with a ‘longing’ look in their eyes (turns out later we learned they were watching the big screen TV behind us). The organizer lady walked up and asked if they were the friends

I have met the girl of my dreams. Her name is Sarah – with an “H”. She’s 5’6” and about 126 lbs (9 Stone, for those of you of the British persuasion). She’s got shoulder-length brown hair and beautiful, dark brown eyes. When she smiles, it lights up the room. She’s demure, passionate, caring, sensitive and has the best sense of humor. Let me just get this out of the way: she kisses well and looks really good in lingerie. She lost her hearing at birth so she’s never heard the sound of her mother’s voice. I’m trying hard but having difficulty learning sign language. My hands don’t want to cooperate. She says they’re the softest hands she’s ever had touch her. She reads lips but says it’s a lot harder than it looks. I like the smiles we get when we go shopping, like in the mall. It’s almost as if society is giving us their blessing. We stood in the video store arguing – with our hands – about whether Col. Blake or Col. Potter was the better leader on MASH. I didn’t have the heart to tell

After I left my previous job, I figured that they would plug the holes and move on as they have done in the past. They hired a guy that I sort of admired to replace me. I wanted to work with him several years ago when he was between jobs. Didn’t work out. I still talk to and hang out with some of the people I worked with. They are frustrated. They are inconsolable. Luckily, their anger is not thrown in my direction. I think they understand why I had to leave the company. From their reports it sounds like the company is imploding like an old Vegas casino being taken down with dynamite. There’s a simple fact here that I used to scoff at: if you don’t like the situation you’re in – change your position. It was so easy for the speaker to spout off this bit of advice but it seemed impossible to do… until I did it. Now I’m the one saying it like it’s nothing. It was not my intention to make the people working for this company feel uncomfortable. I did it partly to punish the powers-that-be f