This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
Who’s feeling it? Raise my hand. I have to admit though – it was worse last night. Amazing what sleep can do for misery. Makes it all go away. I’m still trying to not complain so much.
1st Day of the 3 Day Fast – it’s going to be a late one – 7:11pm on Thursday.
Enjoyed those M&Ms as the final close to my eating.
Working on a Holiday playlist on Spotify. I used to do that every year for the 2nd Christmas at my parent’s house. I think that ended the year I had Lady Gaga on the playlist with “Christmas Tree” – it’s a good one.
I ran! Imagine that. #341 of 5K runs. This morning. I felt achy coming out. I sit on the steps to put on my running shoes and it felt so good to sit . . . first thing in the morning. So close to the end here, don’t fail me now body. It’s like when you really have to go to the bathroom and then after that rush hour drive home . . . you’re only 10 feet away from the relief.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.” – by Shane Parrish via his Twitter
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
I’m at one of those cliche moments – where did the weekend go? Like seriously. Once again, I had a lot shtuff that I wanted to get done. Like emails – I’m over 400 emails in the inbox again. Gotta organize that thing. Different tier emails. The ones that I just don’t want to skip because I always find good nuggets of something within them.
I ran. #340 of the 5K runs for the year. Countdown to Three Sixty-Six (366) is on!
Talk about not breaking the chain – I talked about this on Day 2. Jerry Seinfeld.
Fasting tonight – again the 12th one of the year, which was one of the goals that I put out there for myself at the beginning of the year – monthly 3 Day Fasts.
Let’s not eat food together.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – by Winston Churchill via Peter Crone’s Instagram
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
We have an Elf. His name is Durtle and he visited my area last night. There he is and he put up some blue lights. Thanks Durtle. He’s not creepy at all to me.
Speaking of creepy – Donald Duck ornament. Remember that SNL short from Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg? About the gift in the box? Click here for that memory.
Yesterday, I ran #338 on the mill and showed that quick story on Instagram. I don’t think I’ve really posted too many of them. Who wants to see my more Brent leg – silence from the crowd. Run #339 will be coming up on the mill, too.
Oh yeah – my last 3 Day Fast of the year begins tomorrow night after dinner. Anyone want to join in or give it a try – even 24 hours – I’m here.
Books on a Sunday! Or for today – just Book.
Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin // About 4 great presidents and how they overcame adversity and provided amazing leadership. Abraham Lincoln / Theodore Roosevelt / Franklin D. Roosevelt / and Lyndon B Johnson
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Regardless of one’s impressive title, power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership.” – by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Leadership, p. 200)
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
I have so many ideas flowing through me right now. Listening to so many different podcasts. Being the weekend, I’m doing the laundry, folding the clothes, this morning I cleaned up the mess in the kitchen – all while listening to podcasts.
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
I need me some Josh Groban to chill out.
Okay – let’s talk Brenda Lee – yeah, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” Brenda Lee. I like her voice. Raspy, sexy voice. Sing me that Dinyls song, Brenda! Wait – Did you know that Brenda Lee was 13 years old when she recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”? AND – The song was written by Johnny Marks who, “despite being Jewish” (that was directly taken from an old article), wrote several hit Christmas songs besides that one (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Run Rudolph Run, A Holly Jolly Christmas, and more). Anyway, I still can’t believe that she was 13. Can’t ask her to sing that song from The Divinyls . . . nope. FYI – lead singer, Chrissy Amphlett – we lost her to breast cancer back in 2013. Meanwhile, Brenda Lee is still here with us – she’s 76.
I ran #337 – Countdown to Three sixty-six (366)
New Music Friday:
Last night, Sia released a cover of ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ as part of a collaboration with Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker. There’s a video! I’ve got the link here. Sia is another voice I love. I think I mentioned that I need her to say that she listens to Morning Babble.
Brent Favorite – Couple months ago, Band of Horses announced that they’re returning with a new album in 2022. On January 21st, we get Things Are Great. We got to hear “Crutch” on that announcement day. Today we get another single from them called “In Need of Repair.”
Another Favorite – Tom Morello from Rage. Today, we get “The Maze” which features Andrew McMahon. This is the fourth promoted single to from his album, The Atlas Underground Flood – which is also out today. 12 songs in all. Thank you, Tom.
Mike Shinoda, one of the vocalists from Linkin Park (miss you Chester) dropped a new song by the name of “Ziggurats” today. The song is part of a hybrid music + art NFT release. There will be 5000 unique NFTs, with different art and different music (but same vocals).
There’s this “First Listen” 2-minute compilation on Spotify that showed up on my feed today. I think it’s new music from Michael Buble. I do know that a couple weeks ago, he reissued a deluxe version of Christmas — and it includes seven new tracks including “The Christmas Sweater,” a “Winter Wonderland” duet with Rod Stewart and a new version of “Let It Snow!” with the BBC’s Big Band Orchestra. Anyway – this other new music, maybe we’ll find out more during the Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City will air on Dec. 6 from 10-11 p.m. on NBC.
HOLIDAY MUSIC – The Talbott Brothers released their version of “O Holy Night” – very well done. I talked about these guys earlier in the year with their cover of the Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” However, they got their own stuff – check out their newest release “Open Sky.”
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QUOTE “LYRIC” OF THE DAY: “It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?” – by Zack de la Rocha
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
So, I had coffee yesterday. I decided to do what I typically do with the amount of java. BUT – that tally was from over a month ago. AND – I got the jitters after two travel mugs. Only 1 today. The other is my MUD. I also got afternoon coffee from Dunkin, but got a large instead of my October coffee runs of XL. Oh – I put up an Instagram story yesterday morning of me doing a pour-over and there was an R2D2 bearing a Santa Hat in the background. Actually, I think it was in the background of the picture I posted with the coffee bags. R2D2 – show you on Saturday.
Sad news – No Reindeer Run for us this year. We procrastinated and sign-ups are closed. Whoops. Instead we’ll be digging into our red & green Rubbermaids and finally putting up that monster of a deco layout “Christmas in the City.”
Advent Calendars quickly looked at.
Happy Birthday to my nephew, Jacob. I think he’s 16 and can drive now – that’s how long it feels like it has been between seeing the little guy. Happy 7th!
I ran #336. Countdown to 366!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I know on a long enough time scale I can beat anyone at anything because I won’t stop. Most people are broke emotionally. They can’t handle it. They can’t embarrass themselves. They can’t change their dogma.”” – by Tom Bilyeu (bill you)
When he starts talking – I get hyped but I also look around to make sure my kids can’t hear.
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
December 1st / Advent calendars are being opened and started everywhere today. Advent calendars that I never had as a kid. Lego advent calendars / Chocolate advents calendars / I think Elliott has a magic trick every day while Violet has a craft project ever day. I had this tree with the same old felt ornaments and my sister & I would battle it out over who got to but the angel on for the last day. Being older, I understood odds and evens, so allowing her to go first always made her happy. Mom & Dad – I did enjoy our advent calendar, but have you seen the ones of today!
Muddy November is over! No Coffee was the goal and I accomplished that. I was gifted some coffee because I seriously didn’t have any in the house except for the Keurig. Thank you, Mom for dropping off Cinnamon Holiday.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain.” – by Ryan Blair / BUT – I like how heard about it – via the Tim Ferriss podcast who was interviewing David Blaine who learned it from Mike Tyson.
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
Anyone else still feel “puffy” from the weekend? We actually cooked a turkey on Sunday – it was awesome! BUT – we then had that Thanksgiving Day feel at the end of the day. I need that 3 Day Fast soon.
The double warm up / Normally – First the Jeep / Then the truck for the day
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Time is our most irreplaceable asset; we cannot buy more of it. We can only strive to waste as little as possible.” – by Ryan Holiday
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
One week ago – short week – yeah! Today – back at it again for the full 5. I like when holidays change up routines. You actually enjoy going back into the old routines. My only issue is that I had a lot of goals this past weekend. A lot. I really didn’t hit too many of them. I didn’t even clear out my google mail – oh man, it’s well over 400 again.
Muddy November continues – today and tomorrow – that’s it.
I ran #333 of the 5K runs – also, 1,111 miles for the year!
On the mill, I was listening to the “Random Show” – it’s a Tim Ferriss podcast, but he does this specific one several times a year with his friend Kevin Rose. Not too much talk on NFTs, but they were controlling themselves. To hear the excitement bubbling over in these guys that I have followed for years now towards NFTs . . . you’ve got to understand that Web3 is underway and something new is coming.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better is what drives the human race forward.” – by Simon Sinek
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much. When all else fails – go watch the video!
First things first – Happy first day of Hannukah to all of those celebrating and / Happy Birthday to my younger sister, Meghan.
Next – Mouth tape. Well, I started the night with it. Reviewing the results of my watch – it appears that I wasn’t sleeping too well in the beginning, but then around 3:30am, I had a quick deep sleep action. But then, I did wake up around 4:15am and realized that the mouth tape was off – not sure how that happened, but assuming that it happened shortly before 3:30am. I then turned off my alarm and crashed until about 6:30am with much better sleep. So – I’ll have to keep trying.
Also – Muddy November continues, BUT – I do have to admit to something. My wife and I had Ben & Jerry’s last night. We always split a pint. She puts my half in a bowl, because I like additional hot fudge, because if we’re going down the ice cream route – I’m all in. She doesn’t typically do the fudge, but eats her half out of the pint. We started up a show of Ugly Delicious on Netflix to enjoy our late night together. I was several bites in when it hit me and I grabbed her arm to slowly read the pint of ice cream in her hand – Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch – a favorite of ours, but I still explained “What are doing to me woman?” Okay – maybe not exactly like that, but I was caught off guard. I still haven’t had coffee, espressos, or lattes with shots of espresso, but as for the Coffee Ice Cream – well, I finished my bowl, because at that point – I was all in again. I still believe that I’m okay with saying Muddy November continues on – No coffee is the goal and the liquid joy has not crossed these lips all month. Wednesday – game over.
I haven’t run yet. #331 happened on the mill as Michigan beat Ohio State. #332 will happen on the mill as well.
Books on a Sunday!
Like I said holiday decorating of the house slowed my reading time down to finish this book off – Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Next week – it will be recapped. As for today . . .
COMICS on a Sunday! Visited my home for comics – Captain Blue Hen Comics in Newark, DE – always support your local comic book store. AND – if you don’t have one, you could always visit mine online! Click here for that.
#7 of 8 of Marjorie Finnegan was picked up and already gobbled up. 1 issue to go and that series ends . . . or does it? Garth Ennis is the mastermind behind this one.
Speaking of Garth, I got issue #6 of 6 for his Batman Reptilian series. I’m actually a couple behind, but chose to go back to #1 and read straight through. I’ll have that done by the end of today.
AND – a new series I got was Joy Operations from the mind of Brian Michael Bendis. Looking forward to that one.
Lastly, I did pick up some comics for both the kids. Hoping for them to have further enjoyment with reading. It doesn’t have to be all learning.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, I’m possible.” – by Audrey Hepburn – got that one from the Iceman though – Wim Hof
