#1441, Thursday, June 4: Lazy and efficient

Post 1441, Day 155 of 2015
- 1,616 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

The main thing about Cheaper By the Dozen (the book, and the first movie version) that I remember is the father, a world-renowned, pioneering efficiency expert, giving efficiency lectures to his family, insisting everything be done with the least effort possible.

It made a huge impression on me. Even as a youngster, I didn't want to work one joule harder than I had to - at anything.

That amounts to avoiding all unnecessary work, and this is where things get tricky. Some things lend themselves to this, and the experience is improved. Others, not so much.

Recently, another bass player's girlfriend told us that I make bass playing look easy. Which, the way I do it, it is, but it looks like that because I don't jump around stage, or flail with the fingers of either hand. My movements are, for the most part, the minimum it takes to get the job done, without melodramatic expressions to convey reaching deep into my soul to pull out the bass parts I play. 

My right (plucking hand) frequently looks to the audience as though it is motionless.

On the other hand, the same 'logic' is the reason my apartment is such a mess. No little thing 'needs' to be cleaned up right away. But the little messes accumulate into a big one.

There's probably a golden mean, or a better perspective to deal with that, like seeing that it is more efficient to clean as you go than turn it into a big, laborious job. But, for whatever reason, I don't perceive it like that.

I'm just too freakin' lazy.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   209.0 lbs

Previous Weight (6/3):            207.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                + 1.4 lbs

Diet Comment

It sure is fun gaining 3 pounds in 2 days. Time to put on the brakes.
 

Food Log

Breakfast
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, fermented coconut water, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, celery and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch

Tuna salad and baby kale, baby spinach, chard and cole slaw mix. Not shown: A Quest bar for dessert.

Snack
A cup of Hearty (beef and pork) bone broth from Core.

Dinner
A couple of Quest bars.

Liquid Intake
   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 72+ oz. 

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