Down On Ferry Farm

I was just doing some general nonsense around the house, listening to some music on iTunes and I noticed a weird pattern in the songs that were playing. I think my music was trying to tell me something. I skipped back through the most recently played songs and tried to understand what the music was saying. I understand that you can hear what you want but I’ll try and explain what I heard: Richie Havens, “Here Comes The Sun”: One of the cable channels started re-running “The Wonder Years” a while back (they have since stopped, not sure why). During one of the scenes this Beatles cover played. I remember hearing this song when I was younger, when I was in school (like the TV characters were) and I recall the hope of the song. “ Here comes the sun and, I say, it’s all right …” Sarah McLachlan, “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy”: “ All the fear has left me now/ I’m not frightened anymore/ It’s my heart that pounds beneath my flesh/ It’s my mouth that pushes out this breath ”. I see this as a hopef

Okay, as my final rant for this year, I’m going to set some things straight. There are some oxymoronic statements out there that I feel need to be corrected – heavy on the “moronic”. New and Improved: Okay, this one I’ve never understood. Let’s break this down… if something is ‘new’ it has never existed before. If it is ‘improved’ then is now different than it was before and, presumably, better. Something cannot be both ‘new’ and ‘improved’ at the same time. It was new last month and THEN we improved it… that’s fine. Please don’t say it’s new AND improved. Quick tangent on ‘new’: How old can something be and still be considered new? I hear that on the radio sometimes and feel that it’s incorrect to call a 6-month old song ‘new’. I just don’t know what the cutoff is. Moving along… Over and Out: It’s so silly hearing this when it occurs in a military movie. You see two guys talking on radios and one gives a command and the other guy responds “Over and out”. You’re going to find it sil

It’s interesting what you find when you clean up. This time out I found a mini tape recorder – you know, the kind that takes those tiny little tapes. Anyhow, the batteries had gotten that build up of gunk on them so I had to replace them. When I did, I listened to the tape. It was an old answering machine tape. I heard my outgoing message and then all the incoming ones that people had left for me. There were a couple from my family, a couple from Superman, one from an old girlfriend, and one from sister’s ex-husband. It was kind of weird. I’m not sure why he was calling me even after hearing his message. It was funny hearing their voices. Not much else to report, I’m sorry to say. I’ll let you know if I hear more or make other discoveries.

I’m feeling a bit melancholy tonight. You’ve been warned. I glued the phone handset to the base – it hasn’t been used in quite a while so I thought that would be best. I’m not feeling well and when that happens, everyone calls and wants to do something. Only on a Friday. I had no less than three invitations, all of which were declined due to my feeling less than 100 percent. Tomorrow I will remove my brain. It seems that’s the only way to find what I want. Someone is going to read this and be overly critical. I will blame the medicine I’m taking. Do you know in Britain there are no Pharmacists? Over there they call them “Chemists”. Isn’t that wonderful? There is a large amount of vernacular the Brits use that we don’t and vice versa. It’s almost Christmas. This time of year always gets me down and I think I know the reason why: no fresh air. I’ve been cooped up in this house for a few weeks now with the same stale air and dust mites. I have traveled out a bit but not enough to rejuvena

Wow, I looked at how long it’s been since I’ve written I thought I’d catch you up on what’s going on. Still not working: I would say this year has not been my best in terms of what’s happened. I am only blaming Karma because I don’t know how else to explain it. I’d love analyze this year frame-by-frame to see where I went wrong but that just isn’t going to happen. Christmas party: I went to my former company’s Christmas party – the one before this most-recent one. It was about the same as all the years I remember being there. The higher-ups get drunk, people eat, people drink, people dance, the president makes a sappy speech “this is the best year ever because of you”, and then all the employees go home with a bonus check. G-Lady: I know I haven’t talked about her in a while but she’s been bugging me to come over and set up her new computer (that is now 6 months old). I get over there and she tells me she just got digital cable but it doesn’t work with any of her TV’s, so she’s boug

I woke up this morning with the best of intentions. In an effort to clean out my house, I found some material that I wanted to recycle. I looked online for some places that would accept the items and felt like I did my homework. I started with the places that were closest to me. Some places only accept aluminum, some only cardboard – so I looked for places that accepted all of what I had. There appeared to be 4 of them and they were all within city limits. Great. So off I went to the first location. Well, what they didn’t tell you is that they charge by the pound… and me without my checkbook. I headed off to the next location (the high school from which I graduated) but stopped off at another location I THOUGHT had some recycling containers. Apparently that location no longer had the receptacles because I looked all around so I headed to the school. Upon reaching the high school I did not see any recycling center. It mentioned online that this was a “manned” location that was open 24-h

Over the past few weeks I’ve gotten some terrible news about myself. People around me are somehow misunderstanding me. I don’t know how that happened. First, Renee breaks up with me and says part of the reason is “not what you say, but how you say it”. Then my job lets me go due to what I consider a huge lack of communication between my boss and me. It’s like I was saying the words but they weren’t being understood. Finally, DubDub and I are talking on the phone. She says I’ve been feisty lately. “What do you mean feisty?” I ask her “Can you give me an example?” She can’t come up with a specific example but has a problem with “not what you say, but how you say it”. Sound familiar? I really, truly and honestly don’t know what I’m doing wrong. These are general statements of dislike without specific examples to learn from. I see a trend but I don’t know how to stop it. I wouldn’t mind if others were thrown by my words but it affects me greatly when I’m losing jobs and relationships over