Monday, April 21, 2014

Monday, April 21

Post 1146, Day 111 of 2014
- 1,206 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
Well, don't I live in exciting times. The US is turning into 18th Century France (pre-Revolution) except worse.  If the US government fails in my lifetime (I'm not talking about failing to live up to its ideals, either; I'm talking about the government being replaced by... something else), I'm screwed no matter where I am when that happens.

So party on now

I just finished an incredibly weekend of music, so I'm doing fine myself. 

I'm doing so well, I'm revisiting my retirement date. Maybe I'll push it out a few months until the weather's better for moving and traveling. Just thinkin', here.

Of course, having plans like that, I always have to remember that my plans mean little - a thousand-thousand and more things could make me change my direction, and there are almost 650 days (as of today) for any of those things to happen.

Maybe it helps that I visualize and try to move in my desired direction, but these things unfold like an O. Henry story. Even when everything works out in the end, there's a plot twist you didn't see coming to get there.

So, I assume, it will be for me.

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 Food and Diet Section
January to June, 2014 Daily Weight
Today's Weight:         202.8 lbs
Previous Weight:        203.8 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 1.0 lbs

Diet Comment
Yesterday's off-but-mostly on gave results that seem like the average of the last few days eating - mostly off.


Food Log 
Breakfast
A kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kale, raw organic cacao powder, hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), chia GEL, whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend).

Lunch
Tuna salad on baby kale, spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.

Snack
Dark chocolate.

Dinner
Pepperoni, organic cheddar, celery and home-made spicy mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 90+ oz

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4 comments:

  1. I am not sure it really matters what you eat- I think the key has been all the playing you do.

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  2. Ken, the only thing we know is that we do not know anything. sit back (figuratively) and let the story unfold. sounds good to me.
    - Light - Love - Compassion -

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  3. I want to correct my previous comment. sitting back is too passive. attend to the experience of Life and Death inherent in the story. all in motion, nothing stays the same.
    - Light - Love - Harmony - Compassion -

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  4. Joan - I don't know whether you're poking fun at me or not, but to the degree playing contributes to my peace of mind, I guess it helps keep my weight normal. I certainly spike on vacations where I don't play, but I think its the food. Calories in vs. out has been debunked, and I probably don't burn that many extra calories when I play, even moving equipment - at the most, a few hundred per week!

    Andy, I don't approach too many things passively, LOL, so your 'correction' hits the nail on the head. One of the reasons I play so much is that it puts me in the flow of the motion and allows me to release my desire for control. Another is, that when I'm not playing, I still attempt to control my motion (as it were) by waving my cilia around in the direction of my dreams. It's less of a control thing than even that metaphor suggests. I've pretty much decided that I have little-to-no influence on my future path (non-existent as it is in the present), and certainly no conscious control over 'how' I'm going to get to that future. Mike Dooley calls the things you do to achieve things "cursed hows" - don't worry about how things will manifest, just see them as though they already have (in the present) and let the Universe worry about 'how' it will deliver the future.

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