I would like to know the name of your band. If you were in a band, and maybe you are, what’s the name of your band?

Indulge, please, if you would like….what type of genra (spelling? where did my spell check go?) do you play?

Marry You

One lasted 8 months and the other made it 10

Hitched at 19, two kids, and three years later your ex-wife becomes your neighbor

She called it off the week before, you talked her back in two days prior - honeymoon annulment

First there was Molly, then along came Molly

Grandmother younger than my mother with two aunts old enough to be mine

Signed papers make you lick the cocaine off the carpet

Are you seriously asking me again

50% ant half bad

Different roads traveled, most on my own terms, seldom influenced – or not.    

You did the best you could, the more I understand you – or not.

One particular memory remains in the box and I’m too frightened to go there.

Was it a sick and twisted reality?  I should bury it now.

Give me a spade and miles of beautiful black earth.

I know little about you, less than I would like after 31 years.  We both made the decision to keep our distance.  Not all the time but certainly most of the time.  Though I feel you had more of an opportunity from looking outside in. 

Sure, there is always tomorrow and maybe we have tried, more so as of late. 

I think it scares you by how much I resemble you.  I think it scares you by how much I resemble the family you left behind. 

The World can be a scary place.

A Letter Never Addressed

 

How long has it been now?  Maybe 4 or 5 years, wouldn’t you say?  At least 5 years since your return from Mexico.  Even though your trip south of the border was short lived, it was the demise of our relationship.  Wouldn’t you agree? 

It’s hard not to blame you for having the fun you did, after all, we were young and our relationship wasn’t built on anything more than whisky and sex.  If only we had been older, maybe we could have salvaged more good times than bad.

You consumed nearly a year of my life, so it’s hard not to think about you from time-to-time.  I’ll catch certain subtleties in people, reminding me of you, some good and some bad. 

Though, we gained more than we lost.  The battles and wars we fought with ourselves and each other only helped us out for today. 

It’s amazing how engaged souls can be and how quickly they can disband.

Sundog

 

To my knowledge, I experienced my first official Sundog over the weekend.  After receiving a text message saying that ‘there is a rainbow around the sun. look outside’ I did just that.  And then my phone stopped working.   The guy I received the Sundog message from became a father to a baby girl 2 days later, which was 2 weeks before their due date.

So…what’s up with the Sundog?

The scientific name is Parhelion or Parhelia for ‘beside the sun’.  It is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo, hence the reason why my buddy called it a ‘rainbow around the sun’.   Small ice crystals reflect and refract sunlight, making an atmospheric optical phenomenon.   Pretty cool stuff.

There is a soon-to-be musical titled ‘Rainbow Around The Sun’ – a musical odyssey of a man finding himself by losing his mind.

I sometime wonder if I’m losing my mind.  I was wondering if I was losing my mind at the time of the ‘rainbow around the sun’.  I could send text messages via cell phone, but could not make outgoing calls via cell phone.

So, I quickly forwarded the text so others could enjoy the ‘rainbow around the sun’ viewing pleasure.  I soon received a reply, stating that it means that the weather is about to change and that the ‘rainbow around the sun’ is actually called a Sundog. 

I’ve also heard it described as an ‘old Indian thing’ and ‘a blessing on the hunter sent by the great wolf to his children’.

….And to think that I was notified of the Sundog by a soon-to-be father!

Bizarre, I tell ya, B.I.Z.A.R.R.E.

 

ps I have a new cell phone now.  Verizon did not understand why it stopped working.

Did you take your Piggy Medicine?

 

This past weekend I developed a scratch in my throat.  I noticed it Sunday morning over eggs & bacon.  It hurt to swallow.

I like to think that I keep myself pretty healthy.  I stay active, eat right for the most part, and keep my partying to the weekends.  Though, I have been running pretty hard the past two weekends.  Anyway, I was beginning to worry that this sore throat might turn into something a little more severe, because two friends had came down with tonsillitis or some sort of bronchitis over the last few days.  I don’t like feeling sick.  I don’t know anyone who does.  Heck, I can’t remember the last time was really laid up?  And these friends of mine weren’t feeling well, neither was I.

So I am complaining to a farmer friend of mine about this sore throat when he interrupts me about midway through.

 He has the remedy.

“I take it all the time,” he tells me. “It’s what I give my pigs.”

You see, my farmer friend is a pig producer.  He grows corn, soy beans and lots and lots of pigs.  He’s very successful.

When he said, ‘It’s what I give my pigs’ I about lost it.  What the fuck?  The first thought that came to me was the human pig in the ‘KillThePig’ ’SaveThePig’ ‘FeedThePig’ commercials.  If I take this shit, I may turn into a pig or more of a pig….get it…okay, that was stupid.  But seriously, Pig Medicine?

It just so happens, the medicine he gives his pigs is penicillin. He goes into this big long piggy medicine explanation, etc. and I start to think to myself, would this be illegal for me to take?  I’m almost certain it would be illegal for him to provide me a dose, a nice big guzzle of the pink piggy stuff.

I research the piggy medicine and what I find is that the piggy penicillin is human penicillin.  It just so happens that I’m not allergic to penicillin.

I’m a firm believer that it doesn’t hurt you to try something once.  Heck, if its human medicine for a piggy it’s gotta be okay. 

So here I am now, almost back to 100%, and it feels good to swallow.  I wonder if my friends have taken their piggy medicine?

I think I’ll have a ham sandwich for lunch.

Okay, so last week I got a little disturbed by the mass amounts of emails to my inbox from my Chamber of Commerce. I got a little side tracked and lost focus on keeping you updated. My bad. From my count, and I’m sure I missed a few…Last weeks total was 10.  I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt, because I really don’t want to sift through my deleted email in search of Chamber mailings.  You will soon understand why.  So this experiment will be a bit skewed, fuck it.  So, week1 had a count of 10 mass Chamber emails to my inbox. 

For Wednesday of week 2,  we are on course to shatter week 1.  Current count for this week 2: 10, that’s right boys and girls TEN! 

Most duplicated (week 2) is the ‘Seeking Volunteers’ message, which I have receieved twice.

I’ve decided not to count the ones coming from their staff.  Just mass emails to their mass mailing list.

Today I’m up to my ears with mass emails coming from our Chamber.  Isn’t there some sort of mass-email etiquette to ad hear to?  It’s ridiculous. It’s only Tuesday and I have received 5 mass-emails from them, two of them being duplicates.  One was sent this morning, along with everyone’s email address in the sent ‘to’ option, making my email available to the rest of their membership list and vice-versa.   Have we ever heard of the ‘bcc’ option or an excel mail merge or….?  Now the majority of time they do use a cheap email marketing firm but not today.

So here is the deal…I’m going to start tracking how many emails I receive in a week from our Chamber.  I’ll break it down into mass emails and personal emails, day-by-day, for a month.  That will give me something constructive to do while I’m at work, right?

‘Sometimes in the fall’ by Phoenix is not bad, thank you Pandora.

Take the Bachelor out of the sea, he is no longer allowed to swim there.  Nor should I for that matter, or some of the crew that made the weekend swim.  Unfortunitly, I’m pretty much sworn not to indulge or drive too deep into the weekends festivities…especially on a blog.  Man that would be stupid. 

I got my eyes on you!

Anyway, I would suggest listeing to pandora.com when you have the chance.

Peace my friends.