Down On Ferry Farm

I don’t know why I do it. I don’t know why I torture myself. A couple years ago I signed up for a local dating website. It had the standard items to fill in: what are you like, what do you want in a mate… that kind of thing. I kept my profile up for several days and even added a picture (something I almost never do on a website). A couple days after creating my online persona I go to check the whopping amount of responses I’ve gotten. I log in to find the unfortunate wording: “You have 0 friends” That was a little harsh to read the first time I saw it. I have no friends. There’s no one on this site that found me even REMOTELY interesting. I will remind you that this was a LOCAL website and there weren’t that many people on the site. I realize this is just semantics but isn’t there another way to say you haven’t gotten any responses? Does it have to get personal with the word ‘friends’? I don’t know – I can’t think of a nice way to say it either but just because I can’t think of it doe

I’d like to tell you a story, but you need to know 2 things first: My brother was, at one time, very much into performing magic. We had an uncle who was into magic and my brother inherited all his old stuff. My parents had a trailer and we went camping almost every weekend that the weather was half-way decent. Okay, that’s the setup, here’s the story. It was determined that the camper’s (that’s the group of people we regularly camped with) were going to have a talent show one of the weekends we were camping. Naturally, my my brother threw his bunny-infested-hat into the ring and ‘volunteered’ me to be his assistant. At that time, David Copperfield was the showman of the hour and one of the devices he used was a magic trick set to music. My brother being a showman, naturally we had to emulate that as well. But what music to use? Well, that’s how I was reminded of this little story. This particular song came up on iTunes this evening for me. We used Herb Alpert’s “Rise”. We practiced and

Like stepping through a fog, I think I’m finally emerging from this sickness. I finally broke down and saw a doctor because, after two weeks, I couldn’t shake the way I was feeling. It took a little antibiotics, cough medicine and starting over to finally come through it. I have to admit that I don’t feel ‘well’ yet, I just feel like the medicine is suppressing the bad stuff and will appear again when I run out of medicine. I guess I don’t care because I’m feeling a lot better. I like waking up in the morning and NOT feeling like total crap. I like NOT having a crushing headache and stifling body aches. It’s good to have an appetite again. I feel like I’ve lost about 20 pounds because I wasn’t eating anything there for a few days. When I did try and eat something I could only eat less than half. Anyhow, I hope all that is coming to an end. Unfortunately, so did the football season. While I was sleeping 12 to 15 hours a day, 4 months of American football had its championship game as wel