Losing/regaining motivation
I've been eating like a pig for a couple of weeks now. Of course, the result has been the regaining of weight that had been lost and I feel a total loss of motivation. Or should I say, felt. I'm spending part of this early morning refocusing on what had so successfully motivated me before.
It was easy to eat only healthy food and keep my fluid intake to a reasonable level when the mantra of "don't do that or it will end up sending you in for another hospital stay" was in my head whenever I was going to make a food choice. I had lost that mantra but I'm hoping to have regained my grip on it today. If that mantra is there, it's much easier to limit less than best choices to one or two out of 21 a week, rather than making such choices 10-15 out of 21 per week.
I will let you know how I'm doing. Assuming of course I don't wind up back in the hospital where there is very limited computer access.
* * *
Normally I try to stay away from things Kardashian but this business of the media reporting that Kris Jenner is saying the reason she and Bruce Jenner separated is because he wants to be a woman. The so-called evidence? The fact he enjoys mani-pedis with the girls, and a specious claim from the husband of one of his ex-wives that he likes to wear panties. Hardly convincing of anything. Maybe he's just a tad metrosexual. These things prove nothing.
On the other hand, there are whispers that he is going to blow the whistle on marital infidelity on the part of Kris Jenner. That wouldn't surprise me one bit. I find her to have little, if any, ethical values. She will do anything to line her pockets. Bruce is a great guy, a good parent and doesn't deserve to be manipulated as she manipulates him.
Okay, enough of that.
* * *
The Los Angeles City Council has some members that want to regulate the new ride for a fee services like Lyft and Uber. Not because they're really interested in public safety, which is their stated agenda. They want to have power over such services because they want to appease the lobbyists who represent the taxi services in the city. Taxis can't compete against these services is the other argument, because they don't have the same costs.
There's a big difference between the two. California state law says that when a service providing transportation can be hailed from the street, the city regulates it. When the service must be arranged through other means, the state's Public Utilities Commission regulates it. The PUC is doing their job.
Leave those services alone, Los Angeles. If you have an issue, work to change the state law to give you the authority you seek.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
I don't want to know, nor do I care, how much sex Suzanne Somers is having.
How many more times will Deloitte Consulting get a contract to provide computer upgrades to a California state agency and it go wrong before the powers that be in Sacramento wake up and realize they should choose another vendor? Hundreds of thousands of out of work Californians are getting their unemployment checks much later than usual because Deloitte's upgrade to the EDD's computer systems was an utter fail.
If the judge in the case involving whether or not Detroit can proceed with its proposed Chapter 9 bankruptcy rules that the city can't go forward, it is going to create a nightmare for everyone. The creditors should have just let the bankruptcy sail through and taken what they could get. They will not do better in state court.
I continue to maintain a notion I came up with when I was still in elementary school. The best reason to not run for the U.S. Presidency is that once you're there, you've got no room for advancement.
If I were President though, I'd scrap the current website and start from scratch, delaying the mandate's provision for fines for six months. Get real experts and make a website that actually functions.
I couldn't figure out why Gavin MacLeod was trending on Yahoo. Turns out he's released a memoir. Not a book I have any real interest in reading.
30 years ago today, 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers were killed in the bombing of their barracks buildings in Beirut. As we remember them this day, it is worthy of note that they died needlessly, hampered by idiotic Rules of Engagement that had the guards of these buildings carrying rifles with no rounds in the chamber and no magazine in the weapon. The idea that a sentry can pull out a magazine, chamber a round, flip their safety off and fire in time to stop an intruder is ridiculous.
I wonder what those who defend what the NSA has done in Mexico, France and Germany in spying on people in those nations felt the same way about the activities of Israel when it had Jonathan Pollard spying on the U.S. for them?
ESPN's "SportsNation" isn't the same without Michelle Beadle.
* * *
This Date In History:
42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor at the age of 6.
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1641 – Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1915 – Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1939 – The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine airplane makes its maiden flight.
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 – Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries until then.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. Ulster loyalists retaliate a week later with the Greysteel massacre.
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin artist Selena. Three days later, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025
1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Maximilian Ulysses Brown
Peter the II of Russia
Adlai Stevenson I
John Heisman
William D. Coolidge
Gummo Marx
Felix Bloch
Hayden Rorke (poor Dr. Bellows, Jeannie made his life miserable)
Frank Sutton (how odd, both Dr. Bellows and Sgt. Carter from military-based sitcoms were born on this date)
Johnny Carson (enjoy these clips from some of his best characters on the Tonight Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV00ERg8xRQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuFSWcNe8hY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJz3pwlS5_g&list=PL633C7053BCCAB4D5&index=1)
Jim Bunning
William P. Clark
Juan "Chi Chi" Rodriguez (in case you have trouble pronouncing his name... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_fq4RQgwuA)
Pele
Michael Crichton
Brian Ross
Ang Lee
Nancy Grace
Sam Raimi
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Doug Flutie
Michelle Beadle
Ryan Reynolds
Meghan McCain
Briana Evigan
Movie quotes today come from a film based on a Michael Crichton novel. See if you can guess which one it is:
Philip Blackburn: I offered him a move to Austin.
Bob Garvin: To Austin. That's like a duck making a lateral move to "a Lorange. "
#2
Susan Hendler: Ms. Alvarez, forty-eight hours ago my husband's penis was in another woman's mouth. I don't think there's anything in the law that can help me with that.
#3
Philip Blackburn: It gets worse. His lawyer is Catherine Alvarez.
Bob Garvin: Oh, great. She'd change her name to "TV Listings" just to get it in the paper.
#4
Meredith Johnson: [turning mad as Tom leaves] Oh, you son-of-a-bitch. You get back in here and finish what you started. Do you hear me? Do you hear me?
[Tom ignores her as heads down the stairs]
Meredith Johnson: You get back in here and finish what you started or you're fuckin' dead. You are FUCKIN' DEAD! Those quotes are from "Disclosure", starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore and Donald Sutherland.
It was easy to eat only healthy food and keep my fluid intake to a reasonable level when the mantra of "don't do that or it will end up sending you in for another hospital stay" was in my head whenever I was going to make a food choice. I had lost that mantra but I'm hoping to have regained my grip on it today. If that mantra is there, it's much easier to limit less than best choices to one or two out of 21 a week, rather than making such choices 10-15 out of 21 per week.
I will let you know how I'm doing. Assuming of course I don't wind up back in the hospital where there is very limited computer access.
* * *
Normally I try to stay away from things Kardashian but this business of the media reporting that Kris Jenner is saying the reason she and Bruce Jenner separated is because he wants to be a woman. The so-called evidence? The fact he enjoys mani-pedis with the girls, and a specious claim from the husband of one of his ex-wives that he likes to wear panties. Hardly convincing of anything. Maybe he's just a tad metrosexual. These things prove nothing.
On the other hand, there are whispers that he is going to blow the whistle on marital infidelity on the part of Kris Jenner. That wouldn't surprise me one bit. I find her to have little, if any, ethical values. She will do anything to line her pockets. Bruce is a great guy, a good parent and doesn't deserve to be manipulated as she manipulates him.
Okay, enough of that.
* * *
The Los Angeles City Council has some members that want to regulate the new ride for a fee services like Lyft and Uber. Not because they're really interested in public safety, which is their stated agenda. They want to have power over such services because they want to appease the lobbyists who represent the taxi services in the city. Taxis can't compete against these services is the other argument, because they don't have the same costs.
There's a big difference between the two. California state law says that when a service providing transportation can be hailed from the street, the city regulates it. When the service must be arranged through other means, the state's Public Utilities Commission regulates it. The PUC is doing their job.
Leave those services alone, Los Angeles. If you have an issue, work to change the state law to give you the authority you seek.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
I don't want to know, nor do I care, how much sex Suzanne Somers is having.
How many more times will Deloitte Consulting get a contract to provide computer upgrades to a California state agency and it go wrong before the powers that be in Sacramento wake up and realize they should choose another vendor? Hundreds of thousands of out of work Californians are getting their unemployment checks much later than usual because Deloitte's upgrade to the EDD's computer systems was an utter fail.
If the judge in the case involving whether or not Detroit can proceed with its proposed Chapter 9 bankruptcy rules that the city can't go forward, it is going to create a nightmare for everyone. The creditors should have just let the bankruptcy sail through and taken what they could get. They will not do better in state court.
I continue to maintain a notion I came up with when I was still in elementary school. The best reason to not run for the U.S. Presidency is that once you're there, you've got no room for advancement.
If I were President though, I'd scrap the current website and start from scratch, delaying the mandate's provision for fines for six months. Get real experts and make a website that actually functions.
I couldn't figure out why Gavin MacLeod was trending on Yahoo. Turns out he's released a memoir. Not a book I have any real interest in reading.
30 years ago today, 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers were killed in the bombing of their barracks buildings in Beirut. As we remember them this day, it is worthy of note that they died needlessly, hampered by idiotic Rules of Engagement that had the guards of these buildings carrying rifles with no rounds in the chamber and no magazine in the weapon. The idea that a sentry can pull out a magazine, chamber a round, flip their safety off and fire in time to stop an intruder is ridiculous.
I wonder what those who defend what the NSA has done in Mexico, France and Germany in spying on people in those nations felt the same way about the activities of Israel when it had Jonathan Pollard spying on the U.S. for them?
ESPN's "SportsNation" isn't the same without Michelle Beadle.
* * *
This Date In History:
42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor at the age of 6.
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1641 – Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1915 – Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1939 – The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine airplane makes its maiden flight.
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 – Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries until then.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. Ulster loyalists retaliate a week later with the Greysteel massacre.
1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin artist Selena. Three days later, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025
1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Maximilian Ulysses Brown
Peter the II of Russia
Adlai Stevenson I
Bob Garvin: To Austin. That's like a duck making a lateral move to "a Lorange. "
Bob Garvin: Oh, great. She'd change her name to "TV Listings" just to get it in the paper.
[Tom ignores her as heads down the stairs]
Meredith Johnson: You get back in here and finish what you started or you're fuckin' dead. You are FUCKIN' DEAD!
posted by me at 4:17 PM
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