12/6/10:
Cuckoo Log:
Meds: None
Physical Activity: We are taking a mid-week vacation to celebrate my little monster's 5th birthday. Yippee! So all the work was packing and getting things in order for the little break
So here, I will be for a couple of days, and am happy to report that Great Wolf Lodge has not changed a whole lot. We were here about a year ago, and it's still the same chaotic place as the last time we were here. The greatest invention in the space is something called “MagicQuest”. My big monster is totally infatuated with this scavenger hunt like activity. It can take hours to complete, but concentrating like this is a great mental exercise.
How to state this in a simple way... I am walking into situations and people that I would never have imagined would happen. Thanks to my favorite internet hotspot... S!@#b%^&s... Why do I say these things in somewhat encoded fashion? It's because it makes life a bit more interestsing.
Cast members of this day:
1. Mr. RFID: Super charismatic and curious
2. Mrs. BP and spouse: Well, you just have to figure this one out on your own
3. All the baristas and staff of the 'watering hole'
So have I told you I love to share this lesson of a 'good life' to many people... I just tell folks, when they ask me this great and most common question... “so what do you do”? I just respond by saying that I'm a rich kid... And they ask me my name... I just respond, “crazy yellow man”. Isn't it much easier to represent and be the sort of people want you to be? I truthfully believe that if we just fill voids in people's lives, we are much more useful and interesting to them. So that been said, let's get to who and how this all matters.
So I don't know where this comes into play, but remember... As long as you tip well, people will respect you. The thing is that when you tip well, many people set up a level of expectation. With a level basic need, and thought; people set their success criteria. I love this notion of success criteria. What is mine? Each and every time I hear somebody talk about this, I just jump in and say, “to leave the world a bit better than I found it”. Is that a hardline approach? Sometimes. Is that a suave don Juan sort of dealing... Absolutely. My role models are and have always been my parents, my brother. More lately, it's been my wife and my little monsters. That being said, I figured out something. I was really using the most protective and safe role models one can have. Where does this all work into a meaningful lesson? Well, I met Mrs. BP's son. What a great and handsome young man. He reminds me in appearance of Phil Mickelson.
How can we have more in common than to have a really great person like Phil Mickelson to look up to. The reasons why I hold Mr. Mickelson in such high regard is that to him... Signing autographs for the children is paramount. I may have mentioned this to people in the past, but he is an A #1 class act. Do I get into what I mean regarding TPO? My life is run by optimizing the efficacy of decisions, the constraints being finding the optimal Time, Place and Opportunity. The cards that the good lord has handed me, are that:
1. I live without a filter on my mind, and now my mouth.
2. I don't know what is possible or impossible. I try to live like a 6 year old
3. I love what I love
4. I try to love what I hate
5. I don't have much of a memory
What does this mean to most of you? Well, I can simply say that our memories and experiences and expectations limit what is right and good. Professionally, I look up to a fellow, SH, and his joy and mission is to end water poverty. He founded charitywater. Not only is that a great organization, he talks about all the sorts of people who make him proud. There is a group called glimmer of hope and they do a lot of work in Ethiopia. I love hearing stories and lessons that reinforce the once basic concept that “good trumps evil”. So going through a point by point list, let's try to stay on topic... Why I'm happy to be me...
1. It is much easier to say what I want to say, and blame my situation to my need to take Seroquel.
2. By having my little monsters around me, I have learned that to be 6 years old, is the dream and situation that I want to prolong as possible
3. To love what you love, and to hate what you hate... is akin to having passion. I have passion
4. As of late, I think my biggest contribution to society is to teach them a bit about the world that we live in. I have said countless times, that I hate stupid people. Please don't be stupid around me, for, I will probably feel compelled to teach you something.
5. Not having much of a memory is fun because, I don't know what I have failed at. I also don't really recall people's names, which provides me a great mechanism to call people how I see them.
Going back to the circle of the days activities. All lies in the space where most people like to get their caffeine. I'm not a caffeine hunter... I'm an experience, and conversation hunter. If such a situation leads to a meaningful relationship. AWESOME. But as I have mentioned before... got to swing for the fences. One day, maybe we'll just hit something out of the park.
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