I recently reconnected with my long time friend, Eric J. at Larry Ayre's memorial and it brought back some great memories. Eric is Dutch and, at that time, was married to Dawn, a very American Woman, but not in that crass, Canadian band, Guess Who kinda way. We had a lot of fun teaching Americanisms to Eric and my favorite was that good old baseball tradition of not using the two words of "no" and "hitter" in the same sentence while one was actually happening. We were at the John Barleycorn rooting on the Giants. It was late innings and, of course, we had a no hitter working when Eric walked in and promptly asked, 'Hey? Is that no hitter still on?" Before we could all cringe at this massive faux pax, it was a swing, hit and up the middle it went. Giants actually went on to lose as I remember but my friend learned a valuable lesson and, naturally he bought a round or two to wash his sins away! Americanism number 2 flew by Eric on another ...
Life on the Clock. I've not lived my life conventionaly. My goals: 1. Do only jobs that I like, that are fun and with nice people. 2. Keep my eyes and ears open to the wonderful, eclectic, odd, funny, sad and moving things that happen each and every day that so few of us notice or even care about. 3. Never work too hard doing it. My skill has been to recognize these blips in the time / space / normality curve and document them. All on the dime of others; On The Clock. Ferris Cairo