The Things/data/great ideas/wisdom , - I am not sure where they fit: Hopes, Dreams, Love -- collect them now - figure out LATER where they fit.
My Blog has worth, - it can fill my 10 1/2 hrs on A.F.
SFO to PAR or 11:00 hrs
on PAR to
SFO
What do I hate more than packing and lugging a Suitcase, to 'Check-in Counter, to the boarding area, on & off the Airplane, maybe on &off
TGV, in & out of Rental car, (this seems like too much Drama --"Save the Drama for your
MaMa"), but their is an unacknowledged benefit to having either a 'Storage Place, or a rental Maison'- No suitcases, maybe a
daypack or a shoulder bag with
iPad or Laptop, that's all, free like a bird let out of it's cage (again, too much Drama.....
"Why do a few Adults like
Bike Riding?", memories of their youth, (Smiles , and they're contagious, on Mom's face, biking with their family,
ARBT). In Europe Bicyclist are actually respected! You're part of the countryside, similar to the Fresh Air of Walking, Hiking, not inside a Car or Bus or Train. Riding past fields of Sunflowers, Red Poppies, lush green meadows, alongside
Calenques of Mediterranean, past vineyards, Peach orchards, Olive trees, through little villages 800 years old, with winding narrow cobblestone streets,
Conditoris, restaurants, Patisseries with outside seating, and warm sun, good coffee, good local Beers,....... warm, dinners outside, alongside rivers, stars in a dark sky, good wine/beer, don't open til 9, and don't expect anyone else to eat dinner at that table-have a long dinner with more conversation than eating, & intimacy/seduction
Church Bells ringing, Roosters crowing, Croissants just baked, sidewalk Bistro Table, The Herald, cup of espresso, glass of wine, Spring, Summer warm, quiet,..........
Kihei, Palm Springs, Vallarta -help me make it through the cold winters
Why do adults like
"Tree Houses" ?? Like building "Forts" when 4 - 8 years
HEALTH/NUTRITION:
Keep blood Pressure below 120/80, Keep C-reactive Protein at or near zero, Keep weight at 23.0 BMI, Keep weight loss at Max of one pound per week (Dr Joe M.)
Restrict sugars as best I can, keep Sodium below 2300 mg, 1,000 mg Omega 3s, Tyro/Arg at prescribed levels, then Glucos/condrit, CoQ10, Cal/Mag, Nutrit Yst/Yogurt, - try and always have 'on hand' 10 fruits, mix of grains, but still eat a goal of 100 gms Protein/day, Keep my Life, Prescription-free.........Kidney function is best predictor of success on Everest, not Cardiac or Pulmonary, or muscle mass or V02 uptake,.....
Elaine S - La S, this be My French Lifestyle, 2012 - 13, sort of at 'Dream' level now. "E.S.La S" and a "Lose 25 lbs Bike effort" are at the top of my Priorities - February 2012(Eric
Klinenberg, "Living Solo" (30 million in USA) analyses the new lifestyle)
Paris, 3/12?? will "Balance" my intellectual/Mathematics/Mensa/'over-thinking......'Nurture my Recovery'
Dis-connects,
de-construct, Critical Mass, Zero-sum process, 'the cleanest Shirt' in Dirty Laundry, Bermuda Triangle, it's a Train Wreck, Counter-intuitive, Reverse-engineering (work backwards to solve some problem), "positioning" (predicting so as to have a 'Defense', and/or sane adjustment), --"Thank God You're not as Dumb as You Look", 'do the Heavy lifting', the misunderstood "Law of Large Numbers", Overshoot, Over-reach, "This is not his first Rodeo", Brainstorming(encouraged/discouraged, solo vs group), the Train has left the Station,
Can't 'Un-ring' the Bell, can't put the Genie back in the Bottle
N.Y. Times, Wash Post, Wall St J. -- Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker --- Wall St Week,
CNBC,
Bloomberg,
My new Apple Mac Book Pro along side my old Sony
Vaio --
I use the Apple and PC, simultaneously, a good mental builder, and then some TVS/DVDs/
BlueRay, Cable, I am easily impressed with myself that I can quickly run 4 remotes.
good mental maintenance, - success by accidental events
Banishment - What could be so great that it is unforgivable? Hell of a question? actually, what could be so Great? ?? or, What could it be?? Money for college??, Argument?? "Mom is so poor. can't you help her out"?? (offer $10,k, $50,000, Billboard, Challenge) My hands tied, won't communicate with me, at any level, Letter, card, a facilitator,.... A really lot of "Soul Searching"
Most Heart-breaking so far in my life - 'Accountable to self',
seperate, new Blog for this
Was the "Bagel" business, born in Rome, around 1998, my first 'small Business' idea?( S.L.)or will "le Fluer Shoppe" be my last attempt at small business??
SmashBurger franchise? Real simple-I have more "money"
than "Time"
Health-Fitness-nutrition -- Intellectual challenge/very active & challenging thinking,(not as simple as "Crosswords,
Sudoku, Angry Birds,.......) is one of best predictors of longevity. Curiosity, good wit, sense of humor, to be able to laugh at one self, to appreciate Adventure.
Balance , The "parts " of the 'Balance in my Life', music, painting, writing, biking, hiking, adventures, kayak, X-co ski, Social, financial assists, emotional assists, 'challenge/success', just 'watching'
Experiment with weight-loss, should give greater strength. 3/11/12 major changes to my "what I thought was a
Good Diet". what effect (Good or Bad) on/with
April 28, 2012 idea - Go to school in Paris (i.e. Cordon Bleu) then Rome, then
cook once a month (or 5 times/yr) in my changed, re-worked home with a new huge table and a lot of chairs, acquire all the Pots, Knives, Tools for good culinary Art, --
as much Social as Gourmet - at least a year from now, first dinner, maybe someone play Guitar, Flute, Harp, Sing, Poetry, a Talk. Jokes, Challenge..........
Stocks - Financial
Need to make this a Separate Blog, also
Metaphor for
Euro economy, May, 2012, Merkel jumps off 25 story building, and as she passes 6th floor, "Don't worry, nothing has happened so far".
SPLUNK doubling IPO,seems 10 years early from recent Sil Vly Venture Capitalist predictions, but maybe it's just that they are at least recognizing the importance of the field!
Starbucks started slow and conservatively in China and now seems positioned to capitalize better than YUM or some of the others that will do well but not great, whereas Starbucks planting Coffee
Trees and growing Coffee Beans in China, has some really big benefits, similar to SBUX offering best employee benefits for American employees and having a commendable conscience, the Government and the Chinese people feel Starbucks is 'contributing' not just "Taking", but there is the Capitalist/Profit making plan that the Chinese Coffee Beans will have a worldwide mystique.
QQQ seems to be a good "read" on Sil Vly, but I can do this myself, also. GMCG - study in bullshittting themselves and believing it! 5/2/12
Borrow against the stocks, (get money w/o selling, then having to pay the resultant Capital gains, to the Fed & state, then inheritance only has to pay Cap Gains on future (after death) gains (Steve Job's Financial Strategy history). 4/29/12 NYT, Nevada, Ireland, off-shore,.Incorp outside USA, & Calif.........Looking at Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy,- stop-gap, but not good solution, -Austerity is one dimensional, stops the bleeding, but the cost is "No Growth", so big unemployment, etc..
"Flexibilities'"is an important group of Stock indicators- need to figure these out!!!
Terrific mental exercise, struggle with knowledge overload, one must triage what is 'really important'? must Balance the information/knowledge with 'common sense', better exercise for me than joining Mensa, - one can't just do the "Mental Exercise" like physical aerobics, i.e get heart rate up for 30 minutes, work hard at mastering a 'technique', but,'No Benefit' unless one is curious, has a passion for the 'work', and has a need for a success to be the pay-off. (masturbation vs. "the whole package...") it needs the Challenge, a high level of effort/difficulty. Otherwise, it becomes just like a job that pays well, has status, but you don't look forward to going to 'work'
Monaco seems to be best 'Home Address' for Stocks/Cap gains , incorporate for me.
{90% of the Biggest Silicon Valley business are "Tax-addressed" at off-shore tax havens)
Cloud Storage -is only 5% of the solution (New Storage concept for all the info that Computers generate -Silicon Valley's best Venture Capital gurus believe the 95% of IPO's and profits, etc., will be made when somebody figures out how to utilize all this info-storage, and maybe, this is, as far as ten years away. Its one thing to have all this Storage, it is another thing to be able to use this Stored info, to make sense out of that data, to make clever discoveries, ..........
.
Big/Important need: Change ING w/Roll-out and 100% control, balanced with Inc Tax consequences. - Keep thinking re: Calc Nv consequence (cost/benefit) - 'Self-accountability, actions>words,'
Future "writing to" Subject - the similarities of compulsive sex and "chasing Money" sort of addictive, a little out of control, a 'starvation' of fulfillment's,
CP(I could be a 'writer') you think!
Silicon Vly, Venture Capitalist - It takes a lot longer to grow a new Company to
IPO, now. The "Skill" most needed and in Shortest supply". Innovative and honesty.The next
Facebooks, Apples, etc will be Companies that can pull some 'Common-sense logic and useful information from the huge "Cloud" Storage's". And, this could further down the road, than the 'Cutting Edge' creativity Silicon
Vly will solve. Not Manana, not
este ano,
tal vez cinco anos.
.
Chipolte, the stock's analysis - "unless this company is run by the U.S. Mint, it's predictions and expenses are absolutely impossible...." more
unanimity on
Chipolte being
over-priced by factor of three, than any other stock,today, but it never falters, go figure!
Write a simple Will - Quicken
Collect
STRS
,
Think hard - how to utilize '24 month goal' of monies gained, Net (the potential is there, but, for me, what difference is this going to make in my life (Right now, I don't Know, even the Basic composition, parts ideas, brainstorming, It will be a big shame if I just 'Collect money' and really don't get some use from it. Just sit in some stock and grows but never really has a purpose.
Just a number that supposedly validates my success, brings some security, actually I should feel guilty for not having some good uses', could have just as well collected Rocks, or knot-holes.
1. Aid Cher Jayne build a retirement bigger than the one she 'lost' - rough Goal;$100x10.3/yr
France, - A bad rumor about 'Max age restriction' in Car Rentals, zero restrictions, except at young end.
Another Bad Rumor -
SFFD,
LAFD,
LACOFD all have
no'Max age Restriction', mainly for humor?
JUNE 2012, Can I lose another 30 lbs, by June, then Backpack Trip in July, hike/climb/backpack PCT/
JMT,
Kearsarge, Center Basin, Forrester Pass, to top of Whitney, 14,445, and down to Whitney Portal, Son; Grandsons, -- is this a start to my
"Bucket List"??
Coalition of Friends & Coalition of houses
My newest Best
Idea - "Like cooking at the Fire Station" May/2012, Cook for 10 to 15 diners, One Menu selection for everyone, no choices, except for "I want seconds" Go to France's, Italy's, Austria's cooking schools & immersion; shorter classes in Paris, Lyon, Florence, Salzburg, Vienna,..........
Jokingly called the
"Pro Bono" home restuarant, because it is' free and for the good of the 'People', a lot like appreciating Art, a fine, very good, level of Artful Cooking! Besides getting new 6 burner Cooktop, Ovens, Refrig, An artful woodworker buiding a Table long enough for 15 Diners. I'll start slow and simple, then work slowly at getting better! (as much about the 'Social' as the fine cookings)
Then, The equal and opposite, - rent maison in St Remy, and do the same Pro Bono, but with American-Gourmet dinners. (except for me, all French amis)
Make Sourdough Waffles with Zabaione & figs, or fresh strawberries, Blueberries, Blackberries, rasberries, ollieberries
"Silicon Valley men are so caring, we forever see them meeting their Daughters for Lunch"
Budapest to Berlin, Planned a year ago, and postponed, Walter still interested, may even do this by myself.
Camino de Santiago, usually a solo walk, avg 30 - 45 days to complete, can be a bicycle trek.
col d'Madone (bike,/Nice)
PCT/JMT -
Kearsarge-Whitney,
JMT 212 miles, avg is 17 days to complete.
Bike the
Pyrenees, Tourlamalet,........
A big Ego vs A big Heart, How important is 'being self-important'??
Self-deception/Denial is sometimes powerful in a negative way --
RDW "You are in Trouble when you start believing your own Bullshit" Is it very Productive or just selfish care of one's ego? Is "Denial" a
pre-requisite? -'Accountable to oneself is the remedy'
The simple Beauty -
sensory overload, of - watching the dark night sky, slowly gain light of the sunrise, the 'hard to put the words to' of: simple Wildflowers, roses, the colors of a random mix of flowers, the bouquet the smell of, the color and texture of petals, O.K. I need to resurrect the challenge of building a Flower Shoppe business in So.Fr. - the "success" isn't totally about financial-gain, watching people appreciate the flowers, a little contagious
"50 shades of Gray" New Generation has new/more Control at work/business, so maybe there's less need of having control, now, in Love. Limited experience, I hope it depends on the relationship more than just doing the activity, It seemed more "funny" than Passion.
(in contrast to eye
baisous)
"That's a lot of Enchiladas" 3/10/12, 2x10.6, (if one week-why not for one year....)
Son needing Kidney transplant- within 2 weeks had 15 offers/pledges - I am eliminated before the start - wrong Blood Type, and too OLD, - but, Dialysis?? buy a Kidney in India? What a statement of "
Un-conditional love" to donate one of one's organs,
Then, 3/12, 188L labor force from a few years at zero to five, life is full of surprises, good on so many levels, wasn't a Goal, a Plan, serendipitous, then connecting with third child, then Silver Fox that is comfortable eating the Bird's food off the Deck, and all the composting veg scraps thrown down the hillside for almost thirty years, and they all live together harmoniously (likely not going to be able to have a Cat or Dog tho)S.Fox coming and looking in floor to ceiling windows, trying to figure out me, and me trying to figure out them, usually have two kits each year, depending how well hidden their home, play like puppies, all really good at climbing trees, hopefully eat a lot of gophers, along with the gopher-eating Hawks, and then sitting at kitchen table with
MacBookPro identifying all the different birds, sometimes for hours, a use for the house/windows that wasn't done for the last ~30 yrs, have lived here that long!
"Freedom is when I have Nothing left to Lose" Ultimate dilemma for me, "My Will, Inc 4 taxes--[Locked ] -
Bureauphobia, significant phobia, but I acknowledge it, have my eyes wide open, cope as best I can. Sometimes, I can 'Buy' my way out of a dilemma. I am so damn good at Compartmentalizing, it sometimes, partially works!
March 7, 2012, -- "Clean Slate April 2007" just updated,
Start new & different Blogs - The worth of Dreams,, Banishment, Eccentricity of Money, Accountable to self, Great chefs,
ie T.Keller, A. Waters,..."How to best cook the best Salmon" (Cilantro Chutney,.....), all the Great Sauces, cooking fish slowly with champagne and vermouth poaching.
Next Project:
Living solo: new Book (Eric Klinenberg, 2012), a few witty, long articles in N.Y.Times, S.J.Merc, Ottawa newspaper, USA Today, about 35% adults live alone, 30 million, works best in center of big cities, very little written on the loneliness, a lot written and recommending socializing, a lot of new apartments/condos, built for one person, the Independence, being able to do whatever, whenever, some really good insight along with the Wit.
almost changing my mind, maybe living 'solo' is a really good thing, as long as one builds a coalition of friends, and a lot of activities, passions, adventures, ............
USA's newest Admin guru to Apple, Google, ...... thinks "Multi-tasking, not!!, exact definitive
Mtgs, Times of contemplating what just got said/debated.....likely would like the "Life on one's own terms" concept of life away from the "Job".
There are a lot of ingenious and innovative ideas on how to do things, when living solo, - some are witty but can see the truth/worth to the idea.
Solo-Adventures,, a sub-group of Living Alone, have the
advantage of
Simplicity, no co-ordinating with other's available times, likes/dislikes, somebody needs to be the Alpha.........., share a room or campsite with someone that Snores LOUDLY, - I am going to make a list of my "great ideas" and "their Great ideas"
This needs to be a separate
BLOG SITE!
MEMORIES, (I'M GETTING OLD)
Marco Polo in the Pool, Hopscotch,
Dodgeball, Three-
flys-up, Hit-the bat, One-a-cat, Tic-
Tac-Toe,
Roshambo (still used in back of Fire Engine to see who gets outside to do a simple job on a cold
nite or Rain), Hide and Seek, Indian Poker (for Morons and Idiots), a million different kinds of Tag, Mother may I?, Statue of Liberty, Horses,(basketball), Heads or Tails, Double-dare, Musical Chairs, I'm Rubber & Y
ou're Glue....,
Pondering, "Rejection", taking a Hit,
Likely a 'Separate Blog,
Recently, I really believe I have had some good ideas, they all have ten or twenty parts to them, i.e. '
Chipolte' Franchise, 'Smash Burgers' franchise, build a Retirement for an individual, all rejected, I must be so subjective, I can't make sense for these rejections, but, my 'Last-chance'
Flower Shoppe (ingenious experiment) I may not be deterred from this one 'idea', I may eventually give up, but I need to pursue this to validate myself (accountable to myself), a lot of creative thinking, France has difficult labor regs, the 2012 Euro recession, I'm a non-French business owner, 95% of small business fail in 2 years, But, Then, there are a lot of my ingenious, innovative ideas, this would be 90% experiment, 10% Standard format business model. A good business Plan is hard work, but essential. (I need to remember the 2010 "
Fixxer, Staging,
Faux, Antique French Furniture,
minimal overhead, Los
Gatos,..... " Business Plan, that NO ONE liked, or was financially interested in.)
"What could possibly go wrong?
"How much money could I lose in the "Flower Shoppe", and what a fun adventure, follow your heart.....
.(a retired Secret Service, working for "Forbes wealthiest Woman" all living in or nearby St Remy, and what is her number one Passion? cultivating Flowers, going to private Flower plant Sales, ........)
Another new Blog:
My best strength is what I have gained from my Stumbles, the hardest Setbacks of my life,......
things, like qualifying for Mensa, have no emotional content, little "Shaping", not much size in building futures abilities to making tough, usually significant decisions, ie. 'Fork in the road'.....
A simple good test has been when 'none of the alternatives' seemed very good. How significant has 'losing 50 lbs goal', or doubling my 'second retirement', since retirement, not very significant, really, again no emotional content/not much 'tough choices' involved in either, maybe the 'Challenge' of building a relationship with my Daughter, helping a friend, is most of what makes life feel successful! A will that leaves all to an Org, not a relative (s), who really is a relative??
