Transition

Many would say
transition is the thing
that makes things work.

You have to go from A to B
And sometimes from sea to sea
to get to where you want to be.

So off we go in hopes that we
will find the end that we seek.

And on a random note of silliness here is something fun for you all, it is a old Real Meadia movie but I think it will get a smile :).
Brrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiing

I haven't had kids of my own
I haven't watched as they have grown.

I wonder sometimes
what a kid of mine would look like?
Would he look like me
or be his mom's little tyke?

I sometimes lie awake
Having a feeling I would love to shake

A feeling of closure
for the end of my line
Something I doubt I can change
because I'm running out of time.

People say well you know
it has nothing to do with biology
or how the kids grow...

What matters is you're there
and they know that they
can always come to you
and you won't turn away.

Weather they have your genes
is a trivial matter
What counts is your attitude
and how you deal with their chatter.

Do you turn a deaf ear
Do you ignore their tears

Do you wish you were somewhere else
And do you tell them so
Do you care what you say
or where you'd go?

Remember that kids know what you mean
they can pick up on weather your sincere
or just trying to cause a scene.

So be honest to them
and listen to their thoughts
If they still claim you're mean
then you can honestly say "I am not."

The Yip Yips were
a very strange beast
They came to study Earth
from the West to the East.

They would drop from the sky
or appear on the spot
looking for something
though what they knew not

As such everything
was full of surprise
as they looked over the Earth
with their ping pong ball eyes.

From Telephones to Computers
Radios to Grand Father Clocks
They made many discoveries
Though communication was usually lost.

Though they were fun
to watch as they Explore
one has to wonder
how much there is more.

They may one day decide
to go back to Mars
and we will have to be content
to see them in the stars.

Things were going fine
In the serene land of mine

When a shadow one day
started coming up the way

"You have nothing to fear
as long as we're hear"
My swordsmen said.

After a day
the shadow moved closer

My men went out
to examine the shadow
but it swallowed them whole

It also grew larger.

Reports came in from my land
the shadow was getting the upper hand.

The swordsmen who fought for me
now turned and burned down cities.

The shadow became smoke
as the darkness drew closer
and for the first time
I sensed it was over.

What I noticed
was the shadow didn't kill
It engulfed people
and bent them to it's will

So as the shadow crept
up the lane
it engulfed people
at a rate that was insane

by nightfall everything went dark
and I knew in my heart

that my kingdom had died
and as my mind went black
I smiled in delight
for I found in the dark
the brightest of light.

Meetings

Meetings can be very dry
And leave you wishing you could fly

Away from the board room
so aptly named
to the wonders of the outdoors
for fun and game.

Things would be better
I firmly believe
if meetings were held outside
so we could all get a reprieve

from the gloomy interiors
and the poorly lit rooms
and take in the sun
on a lovely afternoon.

And for the mornings
when life is just stirring
and people are stumbling
and for caffeine yearning

We could look forward
to the late hours of day
when at an outside meeting
would could watch kids play.

So a plea to the CEO's
and the chair of the board
Give us a break please
or be thrown to the horde.

This is considered by many
as the most dangerous emotion.

My guess is because
it can be triggered so easily

Anything from a joke on weight
to a comment about one's mother
can spark this emotion
and the others that can follow.

I think that is what scares people more.
When someone gets angry
there are a lot of things that can happen.

You can plant a seed of hatred,
or settle into frustration.

You can even do a 180 and
count to 10, letting yourself cool down.

Just be careful with this emotion
as in the wrong place raising its ire
can be fatal.

We seem to undervalue Freedom
Well that is until someone we don't like wants it.

Here in Washington state we have a bill
that would help homosexual people
obtain rights we take for granted.

There is a board that has discussion on it
and 90% of the posts are attacking it.

Why?

Are we that insecure in our philosophies
that we cannot stand to see someone
we don't like to be given
equal footing even though they deserve it?

Are people that scared of change?

Would these people have been this way
when women fought for the right to vote?
Or when black people fought for equality?

Of course if you bring those up
then your an ignorant liberal
who doesn't understand that this is WAY different.

Yeah because it isn't obvious.

Homosexual people aren't easy to spot
Unlike women they aren't top heavy
and unlike blacks they aren't...err..black.

They are John and Jane Doe
they look like everyone else
and they are worthy of the same rights.

If you don't want everyone equal
there are a lot of tyrannies
that are looking for people to oppress.

I have come across something
in the past couple days
that has completely captured my attention

It makes me wonder how something
that is so very simple
could command so much.

I see this happen
with many different things.

Everything from clothing and movies
to food and music.

for me music is the current thing.

I found a site a while ago
that had a link to some music in a web player
I just found it again two days ago
and found out
to my joy
there was a download of the song on the site.

The song is titled
Montezuma
by a group called
Shogun Kunitoki

What the title of either
the band or the song mean
I have no clue.

I do know that this has
become a object of fascination
to the point I just listen to it looped.

I wonder if I will see the notes when I dream?

You hear a lot of horror stories
from people who work tech support

about people who insist
that their cup holder worked fine
until they were told to put a CD in there

Or the people who swear
that their connections
are done right
and wondering why
they can't see
when they have their monitor
plugged into the serial port

What a lot of people miss
is when people who know the tricks

Who know what debug, chkdsk and fdisk do

They know how to set DOS partitions
How to edit the registry

But they have come across a problem
that nothing is working on

They go online and do the research
looking at various boards and forums
doing everything A-Z to end up with nothing

This is when the company shows it's true idiocy
when confronted with a truly hard problem.

When they are faced with the
"Oh that would never happen" situation

What happens then is a lot of stuttering
with the caller being transfered like a hot potato
so that the tech support operator
can go back to feeling superior
when someone calls to ask
Why its called a mouse?