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morning babble / Friday 03-25-22

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 continues – one week until bacon.

My 49th birthday is Sunday – don’t forget – and 282 days until EXIT PLAN

New Music Friday:

• First up – Machine Gun Kelly delivers his 6th overall album, but second “rock” album, which is being called: Mainstream Sellout. Have you seen the cover for it? The album will feature guest appearances from Bring Me the Horizon, Lil Wayne, Pete Davidson, blackbear, Willow, Young Thug, and more. Plus, he had Blink 182’s Travis Barker helping out along the way. His first “rock” album: Tickets to My Downfall hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – I’m not going to bet against him, but I will still giggle at the cover art.

• Michael Buble’s 11th studio album – Higher – is out today. It’s a mix of classic songs and original tunes. Buble covers the songs of Barry White, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, and Paul McCartney. He does have that video out too (it’s been out) – “I’ll Never Not Love You”. It’s of Buble and his wife portraying different scenes from recreated famous scenes from classic romance movies, from Love, Actually to Titanic. But the video also featured a nod to Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” short film. As reported on by People’s Jeff Nelson: “Bublé says of his decision to reference Swift’s video. “Once a Swiftie, always a Swiftie!” Did you see that clip of The Princess Bride? As you wish!

• Speaking of Taylor Swift, her voice can be heard within the new trailer for “Where the Crawdads Sing” – it’s a new song called “Carolina”. Did you hear it? Don’t know when we’ll get it all, but it’s obviously done. The movie is to be released on July 22nd, so we know it’s before then.

• Harry Styles, the former One Direction singer, has announced a new album: Harry’s House. Arriving May 20th, this is Harry’s third solo record and will span 13 songs. Good looking dude. Later this year, Styles is headlining some little show in a little city in Riverside County, California. It’s called the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

• Lastly, this past Sunday on the first day of Spring, Weezer did release their 1st of 4 albums this year. Titled – SZNS. 7 songs, just over 20 minutes. Don’t blink, but it’s still Weezer.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The most boring thing in the world? Silence.” – by Justin Timberlake – yeah, JT – you’ll always be my favorite boy band boy wonder!

morning babble / Thursday 03-24-22

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!

283 days until EXIT PLAN

One Line A Day – A Five-Year Memory Book

Bee Pollen – daily

Allergies – less medication with Bee Pollen and monthly 3-day fasts

Meatless March – ending next week!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Knowledge is always progressing. Don’t let your ego fool you. You are always knowledge’s inferior.” – by Robert Greene via his Daily Law Book

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!

284 days until EXIT PLAN

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!

285 days until EXIT PLAN

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.

286 days until EXIT PLAN

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

289 days until EXIT PLAN

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

290 days until EXIT PLAN

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!

291 days until EXIT PLAN

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!

292 days until EXIT PLAN

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!

293 days until EXIT PLAN

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