Donovan - Celeste Lyrics

Here I stand acting like a silly clown would,
I don't know why Would anybody like to try
The changes I'm going through?
A hidden lie would fortify
Something that don't exist
But it ain't so bad, I'm just a lad,
So many more things to do,
I intend to come right through them all with you.
My songs are merely dreams visiting my mind
We talk a while by a crooked stile,
You're lucky to catch a few.
There's no magic wand in a perfumed hand,
It's a pleasure to be true.
In my crystal halls a feather falls
Being beautiful just for you
But that might not be quite true, that's up to you.
Dawn crept in unseen to find me still awake
A strange young girl sang her songs for me
And left 'fore the day was born.
That dark princess with saddening jest
She lowered her eyes of woe,
And I felt her sigh, I wouldn't like to try
The changes she's going through
But I hope love comes right through them all with you.

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Who thinks that the "dark princess" is the "you" mentioned in the last line?

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Old Fox Databasing

Well, with the small sum of my monthly retirement now added to the pot, I have to be more serious (at least pay more attention) to my medical bills. I’ve already sent them all some money, but certainly not all. I decided I should enter it all in one of my old FoxPlus databases to keep track of the plus and minuses of it all. Unfortunately, I’ve done so little programming in the past couple or more years that it turns out I’ve gotten rusty, if not stupid.

Some things in Fox I remember and others are just below the surface of my memory. I almost remember, but not quite! That galls me. I guess I now approach the age or temperament of Old Mr. Drew who I knew briefly back when home computers were just getting popular—he always said computers couldn’t do anything that he couldn’t do with a pencil except do it faster and he wasn’t in any hurry! Being younger back then, I thought he was nuts. Now that I’ve aged a good bit, his thoughts are not so foreign to me, though I am still a fella who gets in a hurry! I want to program the computer to do it, not only fast, but automatically. I don’t want to add it in my head or to use a pencil or a calculator—but I may have to use those old methods for a while if I can’t remember all the aspects of database records that I used to know!

Today I beat back a few of the monsters. I created two databases and Set Relation between them. But I only have about 7 fields in one and two in the other! Each database has only five records at present! Most of the time and arduous work were spent on working out a field structure that was logical enough and light enough for me to manipulate them with some ease. I got partway through the jungle today.

I guess now I’ll have to read. Damn! It’s coming back to me slowly, but not all. I see I’ll have to work at this. Being self-taught, my methods are too convoluted to seek much help from others, so I’ll just have to wade through it. Other programmers who ever knew this have probably moved on to the next fancy edition several times in the 15 years since my programming began. But I only have to be good enough to satisfy me, so what’s to worry? Everything will work out.

Or fall through the floor!

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Compromise

Abraham Lincoln: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

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Frantic ERD

It's time for another frantic erratic rat dropping, but I can't think of a single important thing to say. So I'll cheat. Who can it hurt, unless you feel duped, doped, hog-tied and taken advantage of. In that case, blow your top; talk REAL LOUD about being miffed. Then shove me back in the closet. I was happy there with the bugs and the rats and the pests of all kinds. I was writing checks for a solid hour earlier, mostly $50 checks. I was paying something on account with all my doctors and clinics. I wonder, on account of what? It's not something I do for love, that's all I know.

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Originality

Laurence J. Peter: "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

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Steely Nerves

My first couple of annuity payments came in, so I guess I'm retired at last. Diseased, but retired! Retired, but not deceased. Yet.

My primary physician and one of his nurse practitioners had a nurse phone me today and say my blood count was low again. They want to take blood one more time and then probably send me to some hematologist for testing. Seems like too much testing, but I can't argue. Surely they aren't going to decide after all this time that I just need some iron pills! I expect not. Jeez. I do need some steel for my nerves, though! I'm tired of being ill.

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No Rules

Thomas A. Edison: "Hell, there are no rules here—we're trying to accomplish something."

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Another Stupid Old Poem

ALWAYS CRAZY, I GUESS

I was always crazy, I guess,
And haven’t changed a bit
Except to get worse,
Like some angry skunk-in-the-dumpster scent
That won’t go away or change,
And never had what I deserved
Except when I had you,
And didn't know it…

rcs.
3rd draft: 03/29/06
©2003 Ronald C. Southern

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Sense

Galileo Galilei: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

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Quote Script?

I previously asked about this, but got few answers, so I'll rephrase it. If my "Infamous Quotations" in my blog DO appear in "Edwardian Script ITC", let me know. If anyone IS seeing a large old-fashioned elaborate script there, do me a favor and let me know!

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