Category: Morning Babble

morning babble / Tuesday 08-17-21

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!

Welcome to Tuesday – no politics here. Whew! But – I do have pumpkin updates – I’m sorry “rollergirl.” Wawa now has Pumpkin Spice Coffee. Got that via my friend Dave on Instagram who I guess is going to Arizona for radio? Thursday – Dunkin? BUT – I’ve heard some places have it already and are serving it, but it’s not officially “out” yet. Pumpkin Spice Latte or “PSL” from Starbucks next Tuesday (8/24). I’m not trying to speed up the end of summer. I’m just looking forward to a taste that I haven’t had for many, many months now.

I ran! #229 of the 5K every day

I also wrote last night – really felt good about that chunk for the Countdown to 15,000.

Working yesterday from home – I’ve had to move around lately. I’ve got the desk here, but it’s really turning into more of a creative space and the business work brings down the area. So, instead, I’ve been upstairs at our dinner table. I don’t bring my charger in order to force me to take a break. I enjoy the sunlight that comes in and I think that’s key. However, today after lunch, for some reason I moved to this high top table that we have set up in front of our front windows to the house. And – I was standing. I got so much work done and I was truly fired up throughout the afternoon just knocking “shtuff” out. Just something to think about. If you are out of the office and working from home, move it around. Get up and place the workload elsewhere.

Reminder: I’m doing the 5K run for the St. Jude Walk/Run in Philadelphia on Saturday, September 25th. I’ve joined the team – XTU to the Maxx – which is with Charlie Maxx who you can hear middays on 92.5 XTU.  To donate, please click here – anything you can do will be greatly appreciated for this great cause. “St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – by Frederick Douglass

morning babble / Monday 08-16-21

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!

Happy Monday – well, at least try. I woke up today and forgot how much the hills on the trails put extra work on my body. I haven’t been out there for a couple weeks. Anyway, I ran yesterday midday outside for #227 and just wrapped up on the treadmill for #228.

Countdown to 15,000 – well, I’m at 3,051 / Didn’t have as good of a Sunday as I did Saturday with the pen . . . or computer. Confessions of a Workaholic

Pumpkin sighting – Dunkin Donuts will have their Fall line-up this Thursday, August 19th. I know that’s way early, but I’ve already seen the candy corn and other Halloween candy in stores, so . . . I’m okay with that. As for Starbucks and their return of the Pumpkin Spice Latte, all signs point to Tuesday, August 24th.

Reminder: I’m doing the 5K run for the St. Jude Walk/Run in Philadelphia on Saturday, September 25th. I’ve joined the team – XTU to the Maxx – which is with Charlie Maxx who you can hear middays on 92.5 XTU. To donate, please click here – anything you can do will be greatly appreciated. “St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – by Eleanor Roosevelt

morning babble / Sunday 08-15-21

I haven’t run yet. I slept in. It felt good. #227 will occur out there though. 5K every day. Also, just a reminder that I’ll be doing the 5K run for the St. Jude Walk/Run in Philadelphia on Saturday, September 25th. On the team – XTU to the Maxx – that’s with Charlie Maxx who you can hear middays on 92.5 XTU. Go get your country on – they had a huge concert last night, so things are probably a little quiet today for country fans in Philly.

Countdown to 15,000 words – I’m not jinxing myself, but I did write last night. Not enough, but something happened. Again, this is to help push me get a chunk of the book that I want to write – done. FYI – it’s tentatively titled: Confessions of a Workaholic

Books!

• The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson (listening to this one) I feel bad, but the Intro is read by Walter who had a whistling “S” for a couple minutes. I thought – this isn’t going to be good. They must have made an adjustment because it was gone by the end of the intro and I do like the author’s voice. I’ve heard him on numerous podcast and never heard that “S” before. From there, it’s a female narrator, who I am enjoying hear.

• Still slowly reading Eat A Peach – A Memoir by David Chang. Like – I’m savoring every page. A couple are read and I’m finding myself marking it up everywhere. It’s good. Here’s a quote from page 52 – “The paradox for the workaholic is that rock bottom is the top of whatever profession they’re in.”

• Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin – it’s there. I really do enjoy it, but I have to pause on something.

• And finally comics. Today, I’m hoping to sit back and read issue #3 of Marjorie Finnegan from Garth Ennis. Who also does Batman Reptilian and The Boys. The other day I was in Captain Blue Hen Comics to pick up an issue of My Little Pony Friendship – yeah, I was standing there with my son who obviously felt nervous about them thinking that it was for him. So, he kept mentioning his sister and how happy she will be to pick it up. I had misread an email though and the issue is coming. Not here yet though. Captain Blue Hen Comics thinks I’m pumped for some My Little Pony comics now.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I have one power. I never give up.” – by Batman

morning babble / Saturday 08-14-21

Got some records yesterday! Midday drop-off of the little girl for a playdate and on our way back home, the boy and I hit two of Newark’s record stores – Rainbow Records and Long Play Cafe. I got the INXS Kick album. Love this album. 1987. I’m old. Got that Michael Hutchence – sexy tough, I call him. Anyway, I got a couple others, because the gift cards allowed it. BUT – I also got one in particular that I never would have gotten if it wasn’t for my son. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories. Award winning album from 2013. It has the “Got Lucky” song with Pharrell Williams. But – my son at no other time has asked for a record and he rattled off some knowledge of the duo . . . so, I bought it. Books and Music – I’m all in for the kids. He’s already sat in our house library listening to the record like I do.

I ran – #226 of 5K runs!

I didn’t write much. Countdown to 15,000 is looking rough right now. My tally increased only to 2,511 words. Not quite halfway through the month and I do have today and tomorrow to do some wordage . . . maybe not that one. See – this is holding me accountable! I’m pushing.

Two upcoming races that I’ll be doing this year:

I’ll start with the one that’s farther off: I’ll be doing the Turkey Trot in Newark, DE on Saturday, November 20, 2021. Not sure yet about a charity tie-in there. I’m working on something behind the scenes with that. BUT – all in for that one. I did the 10K there back in 2019. Looking forward to being back at it again this year. Waiting for registration details

The other race I’m doing is next month and I’m all signed up. I’ll be doing the 5K run for the St. Jude Walk/Run in Philadelphia on Saturday, September 25th. I’m excited to join Charlie Maxx’s team of 92.5 WXTU. Her team is officially called – XTU to the Maxx. I used to work with Charlie back in the day and I’m excited to catch up with her again. We’re also trying to rally up some troops that we used to hang with back in the day. And yes – there’s a donation page for my run: click here – anything you can donate will be greatly appreciated for this great cause . . . and you can help me get a free t-shirt. Their phrase – “St. Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer” – I’m all in.

AMA Saturday:

• Question #1 – Is that Gumby? Yes. A baseball Gumby, but Gumby.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Life’s too short to sit through songs you don’t love.” – by Mark Hoppus – keep fighting the C

morning babble / Friday 08-13-21

Happy Friday!

3 Day Fast wrapped up last night shortly past the 6:21pm time needed to hit the 72 hour mark. Red wine – boxed red wine. I’m classy. Also had our pasta, sauce, and sausage meal – fresh bread. I got filled up and full. Still had some peanut butter fudge brownies for a dessert. I was so hungry though at the end of this fast – it didn’t help that I got home from work early and set up shop at the dinner table to do some paperwork. Food was right there. Chocolate Chip Muffins were less than 10 feet away. New Skippy Peanut Butter jars had just been bought and were still sitting on the counter. I told my wife that I could probably heat up a jar of that Skippy and drink it. So, I was hungry, but made it through my 3 day fast – 8th one of the year.

As for the PB and CC Muffin – I got it for breakfast.

I mentioned yesterday that I would have the Jeep and that I would probably listen to the full albums of Run the Jewels. I did listened to 3 & 4. Bits of 2. I actually love the Zach de la Rocha song “Close Your Eyes”. Also, a fun, but very naughty song is “Love Again.” Listen to it with nobody around unless they have your same twisted sexual humor.

I ran – #225 of the 5K runs

Countdown to 15,000 words – ugh – I forgot to count them up. I’ll have that ready tomorrow. Gives me time today to make it look better.

New Music Friday:

• New Run the Jewels – sort of. It’s a remix of JU$T which features Pharrell Williams and Zack de la Rocha. This redo sounded like they took the horns from Phil Collins’ Sussudio, but it’s nice. I still think that the actual song directly off the RTJ 4 Album is great. Listen to those lyrics – powerful.

• Ludacris and his wife announced their new addition to the family, baby girl – Chance Oyali. That’s Luda’s 4th daughter. My brother had to put up with that. Tolerated? Enjoyed. Anyway – new Ludacris song dropped last night “butter.atl”. No news on a full album drop yet though.

• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced their joint album Raise the Roof with the release of the cover: ‘Can’t Let Go’. Back in 2007, they did another beautiful album together called Rising Sand. This new album is set for release on Nov. 19, and the duo plans to tour in 2022

• New Lizzo song AND it’s with Cardi B – called “Rumors” – they’re busting on all the haters. Colorful song. Even more colorful video – I got a link. Lizzo confirms in the song that she hasn’t hooked up with Drake yet . . . not yet. No news on a full album drop here either.

• Some Brent music: They Might Be Giants have dropped “I Can’t Remember the Dream,” off their upcoming album Book, which is due to be released on October 29th. I liked this song – it toed the line of “Birdhouse in your Soul” and “The Statue Got Me Hight” – two of the more popular songs from They Might Be Giants. I can’t wait for 10/29. AND another one that I like: Canada’s Arkells have just announced their sixth studio album Blink Once will be released on September 30th. Today, you can hear their song, “Swing Swing Swing”. These guys are sneaky good and I feel bad that I forget about them at times. But then, a song like this comes out and I go back listening to all their other albums and hit songs and kick myself for forgetting.

• And finally, no album yet from Kanye West. We still wait.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.” by Killer Mike

morning babble / Thursday 08-12-21

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!

Happy Friday Eve!

I ran – #224 of 5K runs. I had trouble getting into the mood because (3 Day Fast). I started out with a couple different podcast, but then bailed and went to my Morning Babble – Let’s Run playlist – if you have Spotify, click here. Run the Jewels / Korn / Godsmack – pulled me along. I do have some fun sounding songs in there. One in particular always picks me up and makes me smile – “Good Feeling” by 311. They came out with an album 2 years ago and that song was part of my playlist while running in California for a week. Ran down a street heading to Huntington Beach – looked at the waves crashing in – turned around and ran back. Beautiful time. Very good song – I like it better than the other favorites “All Mixed Up” / “Beautiful Disaster” / their Cure cover of “Lovesong”.

Today, I just might be crank up some Run the Jewels albums. I’ll be in my Jeep heading to some client homes. Why? Because of the company vehicles lost it’s AC! Was it mine? No. I’m giving my company vehicle to the guy with no AC. Don’t want him to melt. Hot day around here – feeling like Arizona. Or – thanks to global warming . . . I can say Seattle as well.

The Zero App shows that the 3 day fast (72 hours) ends at 6:21pm – get here!

Mind is really clearing up. 24 hours – autophagy starts to kick in. After 48, brain autophagy – clearing out / no fog.

Countdown to 15000 words continues. I did write, but got deterred again by the 5 year old snuggle monster. Not going to pass that up.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals.” by Benjamin Franklin

morning babble / Wednesday 08-11-21

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!

Coffee always tastes better on Day 2. Yesterday, good coffee. Today, damn that’s good coffee. Clear up the confusion with afternoon coffee – I can’t have it on Day 2 of the fast.

So, one full day down which means autophagy is underway. What’s that? The purpose of autophagy is to recycle damaged or non-functioning elements of a cell to optimize its function. Think of it as a necessary cleaning and recycling process of the structure and composition of your cells (via this website).

I was listen to a Dave Asprey podcast – Bulletproof Radio – and learned that in order to activate skin autophagy, you should have 200 orgasms a year.

I ran #223 of the 5K runs. Also, I believe I have two runs (races) that I’ll be doing – one in September – a 5K and one in November – a 10K. I’m confirming but will let it be known this weekend.

Yesterday, I had a very blah ending to my day. Allowed myself to wallow in my work sorrows too much. Can’t do that. Favorite parts of my day yesterday – my little girl getting home from the pool and telling me that she did a flip underwater all by herself – big stuff. The other favorite – reading in the library with my E-man reading in the chair next to me.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When you are full of food and drink, an ugly metal statue sits where your spirit should. When you fast, good habits gather like friends who want to help.” by Rumi

morning babble / Tuesday 08-10-21

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 ran! #222 of the 5K runs.

Countdown to 15,000 words . . . well, I had it opened on my laptop. Instead, my son and I dug into the opener for the video of the 31 Days of July Cold Showers. I’m very excited about that

1st day of the 3 day fast. As I always state, this is the easiest day because the body doesn’t know yet what’s about to happen. With past fasts, I begin my day with a big glass of water and a small slice of lemon and a pinch of salt. Rest of the day. Water. Slice of cucumber is tossed into each water bottle to give it “life.” That’s it. Today, I can normally still get an afternoon coffee (black) from somewhere. Typically, I hit Starbucks in the afternoon and ask for a Dark Roast. They are normally out and will have to do a pour-over and it’s wonderful that way. Tomorrow – afternoon coffee begins to get a bit too jittery.

I use the Zero App – 6:21pm last night it started – they then track me all day.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When you don’t have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realize you’re lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.” – by Chris Martin (that Coldplay dude)

morning babble / Monday 08-09-21

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes it gets tidied up, but sometimes . . . not so much.

It’s Monday – back home. Got my MUD\WTR going on again, too. If you want to purchase some . . . click here.

I ran – back on the mill again. #221 of 5K runs.

Countdown to 15,000 words – I crossed over 2,000 words. 2,098 to be exact. Snuggle time with my 5 year old brought an end to the writing for the night.

Hoping for some time away from the paperwork today. Spoke with Elliott the other day about the video opener for my 31 Days of Cold Showers Video. I had something all laid out and partially scripted, but then I saw one section and said – Yes! That’s what I want! So, progress is being made.

3 Day Fast begins tonight! Dinner should be early too. My wife works late, so it’s just the kids and me. I’ll nugget and mac & cheese the place up early and then I’ll be able to eat earlier on Thursday. 3 Days. Water fast. Well, black coffee and plain tea, too.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don’t be overheard complaining – not even to yourself.” – by Marcus Aurelius

morning babble / Sunday 08-08-21

So, it’s raining here at the shore house. Like hard. With a whole lotta wind. So, I haven’t ran yet. #220 of the 5K runs will occur soon, but I’ve got time before it all settles down out there. I’ll get it in. It is #220 of the babbles.

Typically, on a Sunday, I talk about books. I anticipated discussing a bookstore that we would be visiting today on the island here at LBI. Not sure if that’s going to happen at this point. But – I always enjoy the small little bookstores. I love to see what books are put out and displayed. Yes, I realize that there are some behind- the-scenes marketing deals for a good many of the books, but each little store still has there on “favorites.” Recently, during the pandemic, Ryan Holiday opened his own book store – The Painted Porch Bookshop. Immediately, that was added to my list of what to visit if I ever hit the Austin area of Texas.

I didn’t write. The countdown to 15,000 is off to a slow start, but I do have some upcoming times and windows to write. I’m trying to enjoy the “now” with my family but I’ll get to work!

Yes . . . I was having “breakfast” cookies aka biscotti along with my cup of java.

Books mentioned:

1. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
2. Eat A Peach – A Memoir by David Chang
3. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
4. The Daily Stoic Journal by Ryan Holiday
5. Goldfish by Brian Michael Bendis

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – by Lena Dunham