• The Potato Hack – Part 2

    This is where we see what happens when I go back to semi-paleo eating for a couple of days.  I know a lot of my weight loss this past week was water weight, but how much?  I don’t plan on eating sugar or grains (paleo style) but I do plan on having a bit of alcohol (wine) and I plan to eat … well, hard.  I enjoy my food.  Of course, that is part of my weight problem, so I plan to enjoy my food well for the next couple of days and then get back on the potato horse.

    Part 2 – Day 1 Breakfast … lol.

    Part 2 - Day 1 Breakfast
    Part 2 – Day 1 Breakfast

     

    Part 2 - Day 1 Breakfast Nutritional Data
    Part 2 – Day 1 Breakfast Nutritional Data

     

    Now THAT is a VLC Keto style breakfast … lol.  Gotta get some carbs in there at some point.

  • Dirty Dancing and Abortion

    All credit for this post goes to Owen Benjamin who did a great D-Live about this film.

    Before I begin, I have to confess that as a young man growing up in the 80’s, I fell for this movie and others like it.  Flashdance, Footloose, 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Top Gun, the list can go on for ever = these were at best morally bankrupt, but I would now argue, evil to the core.  I’m horrified at my 16 yr old self and the garbage I was titillated by.  Horrified.

    First a quick outline. 

    • Morally bankrupt girl 1 spreads herself and gets pregnant.
    • Morally bankrupt girl 2 supplies the money and means for MB1 to get a back alley abortion
    • MB2 then does a lot of suggestive dancing with Morally bankrupt guy 1 … to the joy of pedo’s everywhere.  (He was supposedly only 3 yrs older, but the visual difference in age is a lot more suggestive than what the storyline calls for.  Her movie name is Baby if that makes the pedoline more clear for you.
    • MB1 is bleeding badly and needs help.
    • MB2 gets her father involved who is a doctor.  He does not condemn the abortion itself, but rather condemns his daughter for hiding the abortion from him.  See what they did there?  Abortion is not bad.  Not being open about the abortion is.  
    • MB2 father forbids her to have anything further to do with MBG1
    • MB2 disobeys her father and, of course, spreads her legs for MBG1 … they are in love you know.  
    • The movie ends with MB2 and MBG1 in a suggestive dance that everyone, father included approves of.  All things evil are now good and approved.

     

    So.  A movie geared for teens, in an age of hyper-sexuality with the moral lesson that premarital sex among teens is good and if the unintended consequence invariably happens, there is a perfectly reasonable answer = abortion. Sick.

     

  • 48 Hour Man: Live Your Life in 48 Hour Chunks

    This is one of the main changes that I’ve made in my Rapid Change Project.  No longer can I live minute to minute or even day to day.  I need to work on something for 48 hours to:

    • Get it done!
    • Feel a sense of accomplishment
    • Not lose interest
    • Feel like the end is always in sight
    • Reward myself

    Ya, I know.  Just another trick to productivity.  But no.  I’m telling you, in light of how I now view change (Rapid vs Slow) that this change was the framework that I used for all my change stacks. 

  • Thoughts on Customers and Customer Service

    cartoon4There is a pretty common refrain that we hear today that says ‘customer service is getting worse.’  I would like to offer a couple of reasons why this is so … or more correctly appears to be so.

    I’m in the service industry.  I fix stuff for people … all day long … everyday.  I interact with 20 to 30 customers every day as I perform my job and answer phone calls.  I’ve been doing what I do for over 23 years now, so there is not much I’ve not seen.  I’ve heard it all from customers and I’ve seen all kinds of behaviors, some predictably explosive and others bordering on bizarre.  I like to think I’ve gotten better at handling irate customers over the years and rarely react to much they say anymore.  I’m usually able to steer the conversation away from danger areas and do all I can to bring people back to earth when they try to launch off.  All that being said, I’m sure there are certain expression of mine, certain body language and other parts of my being that can irritate customers and set them off.  We can’t be all things to all people.

    Customer service performed by young people today is as expected … rude, self-centered and empty.  Which also describes a LOT of customers.

    Expectations are much higher which changes how service is perceived.