October 30, 2012

October 30, 2012 (Tuesday)
(Post 644, Day 304 of 2012, 669 days since 1st post)

Daily Comment

In that I make plans, I am a planner. 

Sometimes I execute those plans, sometimes not. I am not attached to my goals so much as attracted to/by them. So I plan stuff.

I spreadsheet stuff. All the time. I have no idea why I like it so much, but I make a spreadsheet the way some people use a calculator, calling up Excel whenever I have to do more math than I  can do in my head.

I also like to make lists. Because I am a planner.

But I am not naive. I have a very tenuous attachment to seeing the results I am planning for. My expectation level is a bit below the "if it turns out anything like this at all I will be pleasantly surprised" level.

My signature used to (including when I was a Project Manager) contain a quote from "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr:  "Nothing succeeds as planned." Ain't it the truth?

I also like the adage (biblical?) that man plans while God laughs. Or John Lennon's, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

But for me, to a large degree, planning is an end in itself, an enjoyable interlude with solid entertainment value, that at least some of the time points you in the general direction of what you are becoming. Even if you are becoming what you already are.

Or have I lost both you and myself with that?

PS: In the aftermath, I now think the best thing I could have done was to buy the car that I mentioned yesterday. The one I hit.

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Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:        202.6 lbs 
Yesterday's Weight:    205.4 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain:     - 2.8 lbs

Year 2012 daily weight from December 31, 2011

Diet Comment

I am disappointed in my late-evening, post-concert (Blind Boys of Alabama and Dr. John) feeding frenzy. Way off plan, and I know my weight will be up tomorrow.

Food Log

Breakfast
Cocoa-kale protein shake (almond milk, whey protein (36g protein), kale, chia seeds, a large egg, cocoa, cinnamon, stevia-erithrytol blend).

Lunch
At Ling-Ling Chinese Buffet:

From the "Mongolian Grill", chicken, pork, bean sprouts, cabbage, onions, peppers, broccoli, mushrooms in garlic and hot pepper sauce. And kim-chee.

Snack
Hard-boiled Eggs with cole slaw.

Dinner

Organic burger on spaghetti squaxh with pomodoro sauce. Not shown: Cole slaw.

Snack
Roasted turkey and guacomole. Greek yogurt with blueberries and stevia-erythritol blend. Exekiel Golden Flax sprouted grains cereal with almond milk and stevia-erythritol blend.

Liquid Intake
    Coffee:  20 oz,  Water: 96+ oz. 

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