Category: Morning Babble

morning babble / Wednesday 03-23-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

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Meatless March continues

Post-its are needed instead . . . of these other ones.

Trust the morning routine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – by Carl Jung

morning babble / Tuesday 03-22-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Just wanted to follow up on yesterday’s goal of wanting to have a good day and being happy at the end of it all – it was a good one!

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PODCAST TUESDAY!

One that I try not to miss is The Peter Attia Drive Podcast. He’s someone that I had first heard on the Tim Ferriss Podcast. In fact, Tim Ferriss was the one that pushed him to do the podcast and I am so glad he did. I have learned a crazy amount of knowledge on training. This is the guy that I learned about fasting the most along with Tim Ferriss.

Peter is also a part of the Zero app that I use when fasting. There are all kinds of videos in there to help you along during a fast. Plus, his Instagram posts are good nuggets of knowledge as well.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Learning never exhausts the mind” – by Leonardo Da Vinci

morning babble / Monday 03-21-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Whew – how’s everyone doing? I am physically beat because I am socially out of shape. All these get-togethers, I’m not used to it. It’s my birthday this upcoming weekend and my wife was asking me what I wanted to do. Sit in my chair in the house library – sounds like such a grumpy old man thing to say. Plus, meatLESS March continues, so I might want to do my birthday dinner the following weekend.

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I did partake with an Impossible Sausage Sandwich at Starbucks this weekend. It was fine. But then again, I don’t ever remember having one of their actual sausage sandwiches and being like “That’s some good meat in there.” It was a brown patty to go with the egg.

(Gaffigan cut)

Back at it on a Monday – BUT, I’m home for a paperwork day and it is soooooo needed.

Typically, I discuss goals for the upcoming week with my top 5 goals for the week. But – let’s talk about paperwork day. I have big hopes for today. I so want to catch up on so many work things. So much so, that I typically find myself disappointed at the end of these days. And – I can’t do that. I still want to have something big to shoot for, but it’s too much and that’s when it backfires.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – by Jim Rohn

morning babble / Friday 03-18-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Meatless March (even bacon) – MORE THAN HALFWAY – In fact, 2 weeks away from the possibility of eating meat. I typically fall asleep at night to a thundering rainstorm played over and over again. However, lately to me, it now sounds like sizzling bacon in a thunderstorm

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Some music news: Kanye West banned from Instagram for 24 hours for posting crazy threats and attacks towards Pete Davidson – all over Kim Kardashian. Oh – and Pete Davidson is now NOT going into space. The mission was postponed 6 days and his schedule can’t make that work.

Dolly Parton despite “bowing out” as a nominee, she is still very much eligible to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The country music star was among the artists nominated this year, alongside Eminem, A Tribe Called Quest, Duran Duran, Carly Simon and Beck.

New Music Friday:

• Back in 2002, Norah Jones’ released her debut album Come Away With Me. Today she releases a previously unheard track from the forthcoming Come Away With Me‘s 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition: “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most.” The Super Deluxe Edition features 22 previously unreleased tracks – sometimes known as another album. April 29th we’ll get the Super Deluxe Edition. Today – the one unreleased song.

• Weezer announced the upcoming release dates of four new albums, titled SZNS. The projects will consist of four albums – one for each season and released on its seasons’ first day. Spring will be released on March 20, Summer is expected on June 20, Fall on Sept. 22, and Winter will be shared on Dec. 21. Today, we do get the single “A Little Bit of Love”, but on Sunday along with the arrival of Spring . . . we get their whole album. The songs on it are said to be similar to their Island in the Sun album – apparently all will be acoustic along with a mellow vibe.

• Today, Charli XCX has released her new album CRASH. 12 songs – a little over a half hour of new tunage. This is her fifth album which already includes the hit singles “Good Ones,” “New Shapes” and “Beg For You.”

• Jack White’s record company – Third Man Records has revealed plans to issue Prince’s previously unreleased 1986 album Camille. Over the years, all eight tracks have been officially released such as “Housequake,” “If I Was Your Girlfriend,” “Feel U Up” – but this will the first time that they will all be presented as they intended to be – on one album. Don’t have a release date on that one though.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.” – by Dolly Parton

morning babble / Thursday 03-17-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVE!

St. Patty’s Day

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Big night in the Evans household – setting Leprechaun traps. Here’s last night with my daughter:

Video – trap set-up

And then of course this morning . . . did we have ourselves a leprechaun or just a mess?

Video – looking at the box

You want to know if something was really in there, right?

He dropped his bag and booked.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Diligence is the mother of Good Luck!” – by Benjamin Franklin

morning babble / Wednesday 03-16-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

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Welcome to AMA Wednesday –

Via Tracy, “Do you really like Donald Duck or something?”

We’ll actually go back to 2021 Brent when I mentioned how I favored the duck

Babble clip

I have many Donald things – watches, mugs, clothing, pictures, books, keychains.

BUT – I recently learned about another duck. Sort of looks like Donald Duck, but is in no way shape or form him. My coworker Rafer told me about this movie years ago and eventually gave me a DVD of it. Sadly, we don’t have a DVD player in the house that could play this copy. BUT – I found it on YouTube.

First Video

Ironically enough, during my wife’s birthday weekend, they had on this oldies music channel and “The Turtles” came on. I’ve heard of them, kind of. Two of the founding members of the musical group “The Turtles” do the music in this movie. Mark “Flo” Volman and Howard “Eddie” Kaylan are founding members of the musical group “The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie.”

Music Video

This movie is not politically correct. Racist / Sexist / but funny as hell. It’s like Donald Duck starring in Blazing Saddles. You know you shouldn’t be laughing, but whew . . . does it feel oh so good!

Final shot

The YouTube link to Dirty Duck – click here! Remember – you’ll have to watch (or skip) through an interview first before “enjoying” the film.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I am my own dragon. I decide for myself.” – by Carl Barks – famously known as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck.

morning babble / Tuesday 03-15-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

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PODCAST TUESDAY!

I’m highlighting one of my GOATS – that’s why they hold that position. Chase Jarvis recently had a podcast out about why he doesn’t set resolutions and what he does instead. He creates a more/less list. Read more / Write more / Drink less / Stress less

Sort of plays into what I was talking about yesterday with setting attainable goals. Lower the bar, hit that goal, and then propel yourself along to the next one.

Click here for that podcast

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Trying to be everything to everybody you’re gonna end up being nothing to anybody.” – by Chase Jarvis – he adds “Just Be YOU” on Twitter.

morning babble / Monday 03-14-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Yes – we are all tired. Yes, we all lost an hour. Hello Monday – let’s get on with it!

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GOAL SETTING MONDAY & REVIEW –

Accomplishments –

I had a couple accomplishments this week. So, I did start up a new goal list.

Week ahead –

Ali Abdaal – he’s struggling to make time to work on his book. So much so that he got himself an accountability coach. Every single time he meets with his coach: it is stated that when it comes to getting important (but non-urgent) tasks done, lower the bar. That is so true. Eh – I’ll just do a mile on the treadmill – 5k later. YES – I did it. He then asks what are you struggling to make time for? What if you just put 1/3 of the ‘ideal’ time in? What would happen then? Stuff would get done huh. Go lower the bar. Set some easy goals to hit in order to get that ball rolling. Check out Ali Abdaal – click here.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.” – by Marcus Aurelius

morning babble / Friday 03-11-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Salsa Shark and a beer from the 2SP Brewing Company broke the fast.

Reached out that maybe the bad days were due to the Fast – NOPE. I really haven’t totally experienced a grumpiness that I get from let’s some people who haven’t had their lunch yet or eaten all day. “Soft” what was that?

Small goals – made me feel good to accomplish this. Not just about the body’s health, but the mind as well.

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New Music Friday:

• The Black Keys have a new album on the way – May 13th is the full arrival of their 11th record named Dropout Boogie. The first tease of the album is out today with the released single “Wild Child.” Here’s a band that had that huge album back in 2010 (called Brothers) with a ton of hits on it. If you go deep on these guys, tons of good stuff. Love when these things happen. Bummed that I never found them earlier, but when you get that one incredible album and then go back only to find . . . like 5 more albums to listen to!

• Red Hot Chili Peppers got a new album coming out in less than a month – 1st one in six years. Last month, we got “Black Summer” and I wanted a little more. But today, we get “Poster Child,” the second single from Unlimited Love. It’s a little more, but definitely getting a relaxed vibe from the album so far. Full album on April 1st.

• Avril Lavigne’s Love Sux album came out a couple weeks ago. But today, I heard another single off of it called “Break of a Heartache.” I really enjoyed the sound – made me want to just MOVE. Again, full album has been out and it’s her first one since 2019. Obviously, having this song sneak up on me, I need to go back and listen to all again.

• Got another chill song from Father John Misty – it’s called “Goodbye, Mr. Blue”. It’s the 2nd release off his upcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century – full album on April 8th. This is a guy that I never got into too much before. But – I have found myself travelling back and trying out his past albums.

• Michael Buble has another new single out from his album Higher which is set to be released on March 25th. The song is called “Higher.” This 11th studio album is a mix of classic songs and original tunes. Covers of Barry White, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, and Paul McCartney. Again, full album of Higher on March 25th, but the single “Higher” – today.

• Ben Rector – just listened to him the other morning to help pull me out of my downward spiral – no joke, he is always a go-to for me. Today, we get his 4th released album called, The Joy of Music. 13 tracks and the one I immediately went today was “Sunday” which features Snoop Dogg. Funny one – singing about Chick-fil-A being closed on Sunday. Looking forward to hear the whole album later.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” – by Kobe Bryant

morning babble / Thursday 03-10-22

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVE!

Day 3 of the 3 Day Fast – 5:01pm – I get to eat. Not sure what dinner is. Originally, it was Cheese Quesadillas that my daughter was going to make . . . but now, she has a sleepover and will not be here. Back to the drawing board on that one.

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Shifted gears last night – I read comics.

Love the Batman / Not sure about the 3-hour movie that’s out right now.

Finished the Batman Reptilian series from Garth Ennis. Be sure to support your local comic book store – I go to Captain Blue Hen Comics in Newark, DE.

Oh, yes – and Meatless March obviously continues too. I didn’t highlight it the past two days or didn’t say it yesterday. A couple people were concerned. I’m fasting – nothing is happening on the food front.

Raining quotes!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.” – by Charlie Parker