The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. | |
— Thomas J. Watson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | What Is True For War Is Also True For Elections |
2018 | Start By Trying |
Day 4: Difficult Day | |
2017 | Outlasting Division |
2016 | Said The Man Who Trained To Fight For A Living |
2015 | Tripping On Treasure |
2014 | The Flower Of Light |
2013 | Eye Catching |
2012 | The Holstee Manifesto |
2011 | Three Crooners For The Shower |
The Soldier’s Faith | |
Vacation, Books And Lots Of Movies | |
Archive for July, 2020
In Business And In Politics
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Business Leadership, Customers, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Similarities, The Power Of Trust, Thomas J. Watson, Trust on July 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A Free Show
Posted in Included Video, Philosophy, Poetry, Song Lyrics And Videos By Others, Videos, tagged Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Philosophy, The Drifters, Up On The Roof - music video, YouTube on July 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Up On The Roof |
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(Up on the roof…) | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
When this old world starts getting me down | |
And people are just too much for me to face | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
I climb way up to the top of the stairs | |
And all my cares just drift right into space | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
On the roof it’s peaceful as can be | |
And there the world below can’t bother me | |
Let me tell you now | |
When I come home feeling tired and beat | |
I go up where the air is fresh and sweet | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
I get away from the hustling crowds | |
And all that rat race noise down in the street | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
On the roof’s the only place I know | |
Where you just have to wish to make it so | |
Let’s go | |
Up on the roof | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
At night the stars put on a show for free | |
And darling you can share it all with me | |
I keep-a tellin’ you | |
Right smack dab in the middle of town | |
I found a Paradise that’s trouble-proof | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
And if this world starts getting you down | |
There’s room enough for two up on the roof | |
Up on the roof | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
Up on the roof | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
Oh, come on baby | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
Oh, come on honey | |
(Up on the roof…) | |
Performed by: The Drifters | |
Songwriter(s): Carole King and Gerry Goffin | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | What Is True For War Is Also True For Elections |
2018 | Start By Trying |
Day 4: Difficult Day | |
2017 | Outlasting Division |
2016 | Said The Man Who Trained To Fight For A Living |
2015 | Tripping On Treasure |
2014 | The Flower Of Light |
2013 | Eye Catching |
2012 | The Holstee Manifesto |
2011 | Three Crooners For The Shower |
The Soldier’s Faith | |
Vacation, Books And Lots Of Movies | |
Magical Voices In My Head
Posted in History, Quotes, Reading, tagged Books, Carl Sagan, History, Magic, Quotes on July 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The whole idea of what happens when you read a book, I find absolutely stunning. Here’s some product of a tree, little black squiggles on it, you open it up, an inside your head is the voice of someone speaking, who may have been dead 3000 years, and there he is talking directly to you, what a magical thing that is. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | And I’m Not Letting Go |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
I Still Need Educating
Posted in Included Video, Videos, tagged Bachman Turner Overdrive, BTO, Included Video, Music Video, Randy Bachman on July 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet |
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Favorite lines: | |
“You need educatin’ | |
You gotta got to school“ | |
Performed by: Bachman Turner Overdrive (aka: BTO) | |
Songwriter: Randy Bachman | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | And I’m Not Letting Go |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
Happy 11th Anniversary Of Blogging
Posted in Diets, Health, OMAD, Science and Learning, Workouts, tagged Blog Anniversary, Happy 11th Blogging Anniversary, Health, MITF, OMAD, One-Meal-A-Day Fasting, Personal Goals, Workouts on July 29, 2020| 2 Comments »
This post marks the first day of my 12th year of blogging here on WordPress. This year, I won’t bother posting an image of the world map showing the “missing” countries (countries without a single visit to my site). Needless to say, North Korea and Cuba are still among them… | |
On reviewing my content over the past year, I note a significant number have been diatribes against our corrupt President. I apologize to any readers whom I’ve bored with this content and my snipes. My only “justification” is I can’t help myself. If he is re-elected in November, I imagine my posts will continue to regularly poke fun at him until he sends the “brown shirts” to cart me off. Even if Biden is elected, I’m sure there will be plenty of politics and world events to continue to poke fun at. | |
I would say my blog has continued to be an increasing part of my “normal” retired life. I currently receive about 15 to 60 emails (per day) from the roughly 300 blogs I follow. My best guess is that two(2) are “known” deceased, which means it’s “probably” actually about ten(10). By “known” I mean someone has gone onto their site and posted a death post for the original user. By “probably”, I mean the author has passed and no one’s logged a final post for them. Another five have said they are moving on to other pursuits (social platforms) and about another ten or so post randomly (a couple of times a year). That leaves between 200 and 250 who just don’t update their sites and I have no idea what’s happened to them. Monday is the day I regularly get 45 to 60 emails and most days (the other six days of the week), I usually get the 15 or so. Some of that is because I relegated their site to a weekly update, but that’s as true now as it ever used to be. The one’s I set to weekly were the one’s I used to get five to ten posts from each day. These are VERY rare now. I imagine most (all?) of those are just “zombie” (unused and undeleted) sites now. | |
I am still posting thoughts, quotes, movie reviews, book reviews, and favorite music videos. I easily spend an hour per day reviewing the posts I get (via email subscription) and sometimes that is simply overwhelming. It’s not always the average blogger’s fault. If you post something interesting, I will go off and investigate it further: authors, artists, locations, books, movies, science / math / history topics – they will all lead me off down the rabbit hole. And that hole can be DEEP! Frequently, I’ll only get through half of the posts and after a week, I’m forced to delete many of the remainders or my email gets crammed with messages I’ll never have time to read. I apologize to you if you are one of those authors. I do try to hit as many of you as my better half will allow in any given session. | |
So, besides this blog, what am I up to? Well, I’ve been on a “One-Meal-A-Day” lifestyle for almost eight(8) weeks now. I would say it’s almost a habit. I was on an Modified Intermittent Time Fasting (MITF) protocol before that, but I’m finding this (OMAD) easier, so I will probably stick with it. My OMAD protocol is all I can eat for two hours – usually between 2pm and 4pm. About once every week I have to adjust the two hour period (12 to 2 or 1 to 3pm) and about once a month life gets in the way and I just accept I’ll have more than one meal that day. | |
I’ve also been slowly adding to a daily workout since 24 April – just over three months now. I started out with 100 pushups per day, and I’ve since added head-lifts, pull-downs, squats and side-bends. I’ve been trying to “add” one new exercise every two weeks. My most recent addition has been skipping rope. I’m just learning that, but I can do five(5) consecutive jumps pretty consistently now. I realize that doesn’t sound like much, but you must recall I am morbidly obese and am in excess of 345lbs. That’s almost 25 stones to any British readers. Anyway, I’ve had to start SLOW so as not to destroy my knees as I learn to skip. | |
As to the 100 pushups a day: I’ve missed five(5) days since I started in April. By way of progress check: I could not do a single “true” (from the ground) push-up when I began. I can now do 15 consecutive flats. I normally do inclined push-ups (5 sets of 20). I just throw the “flats” in every now and then to check my progress. My best guess is a flat push-up for someone my body weight is about 200lbs and an inclined push-up is about 150lbs (both are not bad for a 65+ year old). I am dreaming of doing my first pull-up, but I imagine I will need to lose at least 75lbs before I can do that. Only time will tell… (Like I said: “dreaming“.) | |
Between the working out and the OMAD, I’m down about 16lbs from when I started in April. That’s right around my target goal of 1lb per week. Which is also misleading, because fat is lighter than muscle and my body is changing shape faster than I’m losing weight. The main thing is I’m feeling better. My blood pressure is down. My water retention is decreased. I feel stronger and am definitely more flexible. So, for what it’s worth, slow and steady seems to be more effective (for health), than the rapid weight loss and re-gain of my veggie juice fasts. At least, that’s how it is seeming at the moment. | |
Other than those (diet and workouts), my personal goals this next year are to learn some assembly language programming and to have a play with chat-bots. | |
That should keep me occupied (and mostly out of trouble). LoL!! | |
Oh, yeah. “Excelsior!!“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Happy 10th Anniversary — Thoughts On My First Decade Of Blogging |
2018 | Happy 9th Anniversary — Three Thoughts |
Day 2 – Notes On Progress | |
2017 | Happy 8th Anniversary |
2016 | Happy 7th Anniversary |
2015 | Happy 6th Anniversary |
2014 | Happy 5th Anniversary |
2013 | I Resemble That Remark! |
2012 | Happy 3rd Anniversary |
2011 | Is America Safe Tonight? |
2009 | Hello world! (See how it all began…) |
Michigan Countdown
Posted in Leadership, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Ann Arbor MI, Election 2020, Elie Wiesel, I Didn't Have My Glasses On, Injustice, Leadership, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Protest, Quotes on July 27, 2020| 2 Comments »
day 1, 99 to go. |
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“there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. “ |
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— elie wiesel | |
[The text / quote above is a portion of a post which as been copied from one of the sites I follow: I didn’t have my glasses on…. | |
This specific post was titled: “Peaceful.” and the specific link to the post is: https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2020/07/27/peace-for-all/ | |
The site is mostly about family and life in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan. (And occasionally about politics.) I encourage any of my readers with a spare moment to visit the site. I think you’ll find it time well spent. — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Speak Up / Call Out |
2018 | Does Smiling Count? |
2017 | Giving Much |
2016 | Sounds Like Class |
2015 | Inert Ideas |
2014 | Worth Anything? |
2013 | Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer) |
Revealed Riches | |
2012 | Extra Gears |
2011 | Say What? |
2010 | Hello Frogs… |
Risk Free
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Freedom, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Risk on July 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. | |
― Leo Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Speak Up / Call Out |
2018 | Does Smiling Count? |
2017 | Giving Much |
2016 | Sounds Like Class |
2015 | Inert Ideas |
2014 | Worth Anything? |
2013 | Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer) |
Revealed Riches | |
2012 | Extra Gears |
2011 | Say What? |
2010 | Hello Frogs… |
Your Challenge
Posted in Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Challenge, Death, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Time on July 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | The Tragedies Are About To Get Worse |
2018 | Plunge |
Time To Meet God | |
2017 | Wealth Within |
2016 | Soaring |
2015 | Gone To The Library… |
2014 | Choose To Lead |
2013 | Not Sent Yet |
2012 | Wall-Crawler Reboot |
Learning To Count | |
On Worshiping God | |
2011 | Emancipated Differences |
2010 | A Little More Technology, Please… |
Perhaps There Has Been Some Method In My Madness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Love, Madness, Method, Philosophy, Quotes on July 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »
There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness. | |
— Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | An Accidental Escape |
2018 | And I Thought It Was Just My Deodorant |
2017 | Hannity And Limbaugh |
2016 | Or He Could Just Be Lazy |
Small Hero | |
2015 | Seeking Cultured Leadership |
2014 | Examining Failure |
2013 | Driving Passion |
2012 | Cannibal, n. |
2011 | Moments Of Truth |
Fact Check: Presidential Memories
Posted in Politics, tagged #PresidentTrumpIsALiar, DO Sean Conley, Dr. Ronny Jackson, Fox News, Images, MOCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Politics, Walter Reed Medical Facility on July 23, 2020| 4 Comments »
Today, President Trump gave an “interview” on Fox where he described how great his memory was because he claims he was able to pass a test used to determine if the patient being tested has early signs of dementia. #LyingDonald said he “aced” the test which took over 30 minutes for him to take. Trump stated the test was administered the last time he was at the hospital, “probably a year ago” and the test was administered by Dr. Ronny Jackson. | |
Trump’s “last” trip to the hospital (Walter Reed Hospital) was in November of 2019. Not quite a year ago, but whatever… | |
Dr. “Ronny” Jackson was replaced by DO Sean Conley in March 2018 as the President’s personal physician. Trump had nominated Jackson for appointment as the Secretary of the Veterans Affairs. Jackson withdrew his nomination the following month after allegations of misconduct and concerns over his lack of management experience. | |
DO Conley released the report about the President’s “visit” to Walter Reed for a partial physical examination and Conley, not Jackson, was seen on video getting into the SUV with Trump going to the hospital. | |
From February 2019 through December 2019, Jackson served as “Chief Medical Advisor to the President”. The position was created for him and ended when he left the “position” to run for Congress. I have NOT been able to determine what are the job duties of the “Chief Medical Advisor” from a Google search. | |
I “guess” it is possible Dr. Jackson accompanied DO Conley (and the President) to Walter Reed and participated in the “examination”, but again, I have not found ANY previously published accounts of Dr. Jackson being present for the trip and I note there is no mention of his (Jackson’s) being present on Conley’s press release (below). | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Where Today’s Republican Party Is Failing America (And The President) |
2018 | Either / Or |
2017 | Redemptive Power |
2016 | On Calls To Renew Waterboarding / Torture |
2015 | Still Struggling |
2014 | How To Become A Saint |
2013 | Not Much Change |
Our Biggest Fear | |
2012 | Brain, n. |
2011 | Styles Of Leadership |
2010 | Face Front! |
Vote In November!
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Actions, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Vote Nov 2020 on July 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »
What I now do, or neglect to do, is as important for all that is to come, as the greatest event of the past: in this immense perspective of effects all actions are equally great and small. | |
— Friedrich Nietzsche | |
From his book: “The Gay Science“ | |
[Although I have my own preference, I don’t care whom you vote for in the November election. The main thing is for the voice of the American people to be heard. In order to be heard, we must each take advantage of the right (and privilege) which so many before us have sacrificed to pass on to us – the right to vote! Every Vote, In Every State Counts!! — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Where Today’s Republican Party Is Failing America (And The President) |
2018 | Either / Or |
2017 | Redemptive Power |
2016 | On Calls To Renew Waterboarding / Torture |
2015 | Still Struggling |
2014 | How To Become A Saint |
2013 | Not Much Change |
Our Biggest Fear | |
2012 | Brain, n. |
2011 | Styles Of Leadership |
2010 | Face Front! |
Didn’t I Just Post Yesterday?
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Dr. Leo Buscaglia, Humor, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Tomorrow on July 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. | |
— Dr. Leo Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | A Long Slog |
2018 | There Is No God But God |
To The Uncommitted Reader | |
2017 | Not Yet That Well-Organized |
2016 | Probably Whatever Was Sought Yesterday |
2015 | What We Choose To Divide Us |
2014 | Peace With Honor |
2013 | Dangerous Systems |
2012 | Useful Science |
2011 | Say It, But Please Don’t Make Me Listen |