Down On Ferry Farm

I did something last night that I can’t remember if I’ve ever done before – I went out with a married woman. It was nice but, before you ask, it did not have a “happy ending”. With that being said, I could tell it was going to be really comfortable because I was so relaxed. Usually I’m uptight before going out for the evening but I was calm. I think I knew beforehand how the evening would go and it went according to plan. We had dinner at a very nice restaurant in town. I had been there several times but she hadn’t been before. Had a good dinner and great conversation. Laughed, drank and ate. As things were winding down I suggested we go somewhere else to get a drink and she agreed. We ended up going down the street to an Irish pub that I wanted to check out. It was nice and cozy. We sat at the bar and talked, laughed, and drank some more. I got a little tipsy myself and had to ‘bring it down’ toward the end of the night. All in all it was a really great night without any sexual tensio

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve had a pretty interesting life. I have been to several parties, I have been out a couple times with friends and I’ve had some decent weekends – just have them blown away by Monday morning. Sound familiar? I had the same complaint about my last job. Let’s just say that the honeymoon is over, the kid gloves have come off and all the real problems are starting. There are 4 of us in my ‘team’ that deal with network problems and servers. We recently inherited a few systems that have fallen apart, which has made our lives oh so fulfilled… trust me. It wouldn’t bother me if it had sort of crept up on us but all of them blind-sided us and we had to scramble to learn the business model for the servers and their function in the whole scheme of things. Meanwhile, everyone is staring at us thinking we’re the experts (which we are, I mean – c’mon) but at that moment we look pretty stupid. We’re just now getting to the point where things are starting to stabilize. E

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I want the people who create TV to heed my list. Stop: - Saying “we’ll be right back with more of your show” and then rolling credits. That amounts to bait-and-switch. - Creating crappy ‘Reality TV’ programs. The few that have come out that people consider are good are novelties. I like drinking water but I don’t want it shoved down my throat constantly. And, you know what? There’s NO reality in them. - Letting good TV shows go away by switching them from time-slot to time-slot. - Putting everything on Thursday night. You’re asking me to record something on my VCR, my TiVo and then watch a third show. There are OTHER nights of the weekday, you know… - Tweaking shows. Jeez, I hate that! When something works don’t futz with it. They DON’T need a cute kid or crazy neighbor to make the show better – write better material! - Dumbing down TV. There are people who read ‘the funnies’ and there are others that read the Wall Street Journal. Learn to distinguish which is which. - Thinking that th

Sometimes, it’s all about the moments in life. I’ve learned over the years that ‘moments’ mean something different to everyone. For TV announcers, when they say: “We’ll be back in a moment” – they mean 4 minutes. Most everyone else thinks of a ‘moment’ as that time that she looks at you, you look at her and you just … know. It’s a moment. There are other moments as well. When your kids are born, that moment you think about saying “I do” on the altar, and that time between when the photographer say “cheese” and the picture is taken. That’s a moment. There are also bad moments. That car crash that keeps playing over in slow motion in your head. The moment the phone rings and you just get this chill that tells you the news will not be good. That moment between the knock on the door and when the door is open – and you weren’t expecting anyone. I’m sure you can think of other moments and that’s what I’m talking about – the moments that make up our lives. It’s all about the moment.