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Thursday, May 26, 2022

12 Rules For Life

Finished my Essentialism book. Started the longer “12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos”. While each of these simple rules is wise in and of itself, there is a great deal of backstory and depth the author adds.

1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back. You’ll feel and perform better, and others will treat you better.

2. Treat yourself like you are someone you are responsible for helping (better than you treat yourself).

3. Make friends with people who want the best for you, and aren’t just in it for themselves.

4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.

6. Set your house in perfect order before you criticize others.

7. Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.

8. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie. It’s not your job to explain everything to everyone.

9. Assume the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.

10. Be precise in your speech.

11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.

12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.

Work is still a bear. Didn’t leave the office until six last night. Two machines broken. Having to undo all my work from the past two weeks and farm out dozens of orders, re-determining priorities and hoping these subcontractors can run the material in time. Plus it’s month end coming up, and I’ve got time off soon.  Tons ‘o fun.

Ate Mexican at home last night. Grilled chicken and flank steak, rice, slaw, cheese, grilled brussel sprouts. Good Stuff. Skipped the news and watched Jeopardy, and the movie “Love’s Kitchen”. The actress had been in a movie with Brad Pitt.

Anna and Caleb stopped by to visit. Today they’re headed to 30A for the weekend, one of C’s friends is getting engaged. Along with his promotion, Caleb gets a gas card and use of the company Ford F150 pickup. Anna has been promoted out of her store over to the home office near Westside Provisions, where she’s designing clothing and working in marketing.

Braves won two straight. Tonight is Beat the Freeze bobblehead night, but rain is in the forecast. They’re facing a string of weaker teams (Phillies, Marlins, DBacks, Rockies, Oakland, Pirates, Nats), so they need to make some hay.

Was back in the gym this morning lifting the weights. Really yesterday was the first time I’d slept in since the first of March. My boss is having a bad day as well, so he took me to Dulth Diner for lunch. Had the grilled chicken cobb salad.

JOHN FRANCO [SABR Bio] shattered Tom Seaver’s record for most pitching appearances for the New York Mets. Seaver had 401; Franco ended with 695. Franco gave Mike Piazza his no. 31 when Mike Piazza joined the Mets in 1998. Franco ranks fifth in career saves with 424, 5th all-time.

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