Down On Ferry Farm

A little over a month ago, let’s call it end of December, a woman at my work and I were talking about ‘stuff’. We happened upon the topic of vitamins and she admitted that she took a B-complex vitamin that also had ‘C’. She also mentioned that since she’d been taking this combination, no day of sickness had come to her. “Wow”, I thought to myself “no sick days sound good to me”. So the next time I went grocery shopping I picked up the very same formulary. There were 100 pills. “This will last me a little over 3 months”, I thought to myself. I do a lot of thinking to myself. Not a week later and I was sick. Nothing major, just your run-of-the-mill cold. I didn’t miss any work and medicine help me run its course. Fine. I’m usually sick twice year – this is just “one of those times”. No. Not a week later, I’m sick again. Keep in mind I’m still taking these damn B-complex vitamins that smell like compressed grass. This time, it’s a whopper – I miss two days of work. One thing you have to k

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Ingredients: - The smile of an attractive woman - One ticking clock - 7 computers that won’t start - 26 Pieces of paper stuck in a copier - The pony-tail of the help desk guy - 9 keys - A standard 102-key computer keyboard - A box fan with 3 speed settings… high, medium and low - One potted plant about the size of your head - 12 broken floor tiles - An ‘ attaboy ’ from someone you admire - 221 small paper clips - 10 gallons of water - 1 iPod - A newspaper that’s already been read - A flashlight with no batteries - One large 4-drawer metal storage cabinet - 13 Manila folders - 13 olive-drab hanging folders - One loudly ringing cell phone - A bistro table with 3 chairs - 142 LTO -2 backup tapes (Purple) - 16 feet of packing tape - 1 ink pen - 34 degree weather - 14 empty jewel case

One of the things I do a lot lately is read other people’s blogs. I have stumbled upon one that reminds me that I have not lived. I learned this many years ago when some co-workers and I were standing around discussing ‘star sightings’ at a company Christmas party. I’ve never had what I consider to be a star sighting. That somehow moved into stories of broken bones. There was a slight pause as they looked at me. “I’ve never broken any bones”, I tell them. “What’s the worst car accident you’ve seen?” I haven’t seen any – haven’t even been in a car that’s been hit. That flowed into a conversation about being in the back of a stretch limo. I sighed before letting them know, “I’ve never been in the back of a stretch limo”. I had taken a quick ride in what was considered a limo but was basically a very nice towne car with one of the back seats facing toward the rear of the vehicle. I have not lived. I got to thinking about all the things I’d never done. I’ve never taken a vacation by myself

I’ve had a very weird beginning to this year. While I was supposed to have a three-day weekend, I ended up not having any of the days off. I (along with others in my team) was in the office with a non-working production system. We worked both Friday and Saturday very late night, most of the afternoon Sunday, and only a few hours on Monday. For a good part of Sunday and all the rest of the week I was carrying a cold with me. I really don’t like having a cold – have I mentioned that before? It makes it even more difficult when you have to work through days like that. I finally got my heat issue resolved. They replaced the breaker in the electrical panel but it was still tripping. They finally ended up running a whole new wire between the electrical panel and the air unit up in the attic. As soon as everything was said and done, the weather turns to 75 degrees and there’s no need for the heat to come on. Isn’t that the way it always ends up? Here it is Saturday and I’m trying recoup from