well....crap.

thanks, Myra!

They may not have that book on tape...but, I'll order it and use my MAX
to read it. (a MAX is a hand-held device sorta looks like a computer
mouse....that you slide over printed text and the words are projected
onto my TV screen, BIG.)

It's tiring to use it to read a whole book---but that one sounds worth
the hassle.

LassChance


Start LC~5-16-05
202-193-165
(i usually weigh on Sunday)

Although random "bad luck" events can occur, often they can be traced
to
neglecting a prior, easily repairable problem that has now compounded.
Avoidance of fixing a popped out board in a fence that would require a
few
nails and 5 minutes of time, could morph into having to spend even more
in
time and money to get a new board, cut it, and finding the right color
of
stain. It could easily turn into a 4 hour job due to neglect.
Some people may think it was a string of bad luck that, the board got
popped out, then after a month it got lost, and then a dog came in and
dug
holes all over the lawn, and then to top it off, it takes half a day to
fix
the fence. This same person may even have had to also buy a new handsaw
because he was unlucky that old one got rusty from leaving it in the
rain
from the last unfinished repair job.
Being prepared for something in advance of it happening is also a way
of
avoiding "bad luck". Factories would call this, Planned Maintenance. If
the
fence in the above scenario was checked occasionally for loose boards,
the
event of the popped out board may not have even occurred in the first
place.
It is impossible to be prepared for every event, but steps can be
taken to
minimize many problems. This pertains to all aspects of life. Not just
in a
mechanical sense.


Yes yes yes!! That's totally true. The kicker is that "it is impossible
to be prepared for every event." I think the way we live now, so
dependent on ever more complicated machines for our day to day lives,
adds a lot more things that can go wrong. And a lot of those things
that can go wrong are really outside the expertise of most people. With
a newer car, for instance, so much of it is computerized that the
average Joe isn't going to be able to fix a problem in his own garage at
home any more. That's just one example, but you get my gist.

I do know what you mean about everyday life becoming more complicated and
overwhelming. I have a 2002 Honda that would be difficult for me to repair.
Even a trained mechanic would have a hard time repairing the car if she
didn't bring her tools with her.
I still have options to minimize my problems in the event of a break down.
Cell phone, warm clothing, proper(practical) footwear, telling someone where
I am going, a small tool kit, food or snacks. Even making sure the broken
fence is in good condition before I leave on a trip makes me feel more
secure and able to deal with life's unexpected events. Problems are
inconveniences rather than crisis.
If I have never owned a hammer and didn't know how to swing it anyway, I
still have options to repair the fence. I can ask someone who knows how, or
I can pay somebody. I can at least put the board in a place where I know it
won't get lost and then have to spend more time and money to make a new one.
I can also cover the hole with something else so the dogs can't get in. Some
solutions may only be temporary until the real answer can be found.
From my experience, being prepared is not something that is done the
night before. An accumulated lifetime of knowledge is a lifestyle choice
that allows a person to be ready for anything. "You can pay me now, or you
can pay me later", is a way of thinking and living to reduce future stress.
Every aspect of life builds on itself from a foundation and then grows.
If there are too many problems, growth stagnates, and can even reverse.
Lifestyle choices now affect what happens later in the future. Being born
with a high IQ and in a rich family is lucky, but a person following the
wrong path in life can still end up in the gutter by their own choices. That
would not be a factor of luck, but rather of careless choices(or not
choosing at all).
"Person A's" problems may be a learning experience and help them to grow
and be strong. "Person B's" troubles can eat at them until the core is
hollowed out. Can a person do everything right and still wind up living in
hell? Yes of course. Can an undeserving criminal win a lottery or land a
dream job? Sure. There are no guarantees.
The more someone does to improve their life, the happier they will be by
the successful accomplishment of goals. And on the other hand, problems that
are left to fester can easily grow larger and out of control as well.
Quitting smoking is difficult. Once you accomplish that goal, you will
feel that you have the will to do anything and other problems in your life
seem smaller.

"Lass Chance" wrote in message
...
thanks, Myra!

They may not have that book on tape...

He's got a web site too : ) Not sure of the URL, but that's how I stopped 4
1/2 years ago.

Nicky.

--
A1c 10.5/4.5/6 Weight 95/77/72Kg
1g Metformin, 100ug Thyroxine
T2 DX 05/2004

"Lass Chance" wrote in message
...
This is OLD news, peeps. I cant believe people are STILL even commenting
on this, each one repeating over and over that wine has calories. I GET
IT.

Have you not read my post from last Monday, I think, where I said Im not
drinking wine AT ALL now?


I recently had several posts show up on my server a week late, that might be
what's going on here. Just a propagation glitch in cyberspace.

--
No Husband Has Ever Been Shot While Doing The Dishes

"Luna" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

"Suze" suze_anderson@spamcop/dot/obvious wrote in message
news
Quoting JC Der Koenig:
As an aside: Why is there such a strong correlation between Webtv and
idiocy?

LOL at this whole thread. Can't help it...


Laughing is supposed to help you lose weight.

Then I should be skinny, because I laugh lots every day. Oh, wait, I
also eat lots every day. Nevermind.

If whining and being overly dramatic helped you lose weight, you would have
it made.

In article ,
(Lass Chance) wrote:

This is OLD news, peeps. I cant believe people are STILL even commenting
on this, each one repeating over and over that wine has calories. I GET
IT.


Well, with the way USENET works, sometimes, say, you'll post a question
one day, and maybe some people don't read it until a few days later, and
maybe they respond when they see it, which happens to be after everyone
else has responded. And, sometimes what happens is, new subscribers who
never even saw your original post may read the replies, and maybe those
replies will help them out with their own questions, even though you no
longer need them. Anyway, the point is, once you start a thread, where
it goes from there is out of your hands. If a thread drifts past your
needs, you can always just kill that thread.

I don't see how that applies to me, since I've posted quite a bit here
about positive things that have happened, are happening, and are going
to happen.

Can you conceive of any situation in which something bad happens, and
someone posts about it, which would _not_ lead you to accusing them of
having Hardy Har Har syndrome? Or, to avoid being labeled with that
syndrome, must we only post about positive experiences and pretend the
bas ones never happen? That, my friend, is living in denial.

I think if you actually read my posts, you'd see that every time I fail,
I keep trying, and that every time something bad happens that was beyond
my control, I find the good in it. Whereas you are much more like the
hyena, except instead of insisting that everything is bad in your own
life, you do it to other people. Telling them to give up, just stay
fat, they'll never make it, etc.

In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

Hardy Har Har was a laughing hyena that used to hang around with a lion.
The thing about Hardy was that no matter what was happening, it was bad. He
complained about everything and always knew that bad things were about to
happen to him, were happening to him, and had happened to him. He had the
most negative worldview possible. He used this perspective as an excuse for
not doing anything to help himself.

--
Most people are dumb as bricks; some people are dumber than that. -- MFW


"Luna" wrote in message
...
I don't even know what that is.

In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

You have a bad case of the Hardy Har Har syndrome.

In article ,
"microdaughter" wrote:

"Luna" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

"Suze" suze_anderson@spamcop/dot/obvious wrote in message
news Quoting JC Der Koenig:
As an aside: Why is there such a strong correlation between Webtv and
idiocy?

LOL at this whole thread. Can't help it...


Laughing is supposed to help you lose weight.

Then I should be skinny, because I laugh lots every day. Oh, wait, I
also eat lots every day. Nevermind.

If whining and being overly dramatic helped you lose weight, you would have
it made.

Haha. I know from whining, and I don't whine. Whining is "It's too
hard, it's not fair." My take is, "Sure it's hard, it's not fair, but
that's the way life is so I'll keep on trucking anyway."

I also don't get this "overly dramatic" comment. It's ok to have, you
know, feelings and stuff. If someone gets hit by a car and gets
paralyzed for life, and they just post the simple facts of what
happened, like "Well, got in a wreck, I can never walk again. It kinda
sucks" you'd call them overly dramatic, wouldn't you? Come on, yeah you
would, don't be shy, own it, you know you would.

In article ,
(Lass Chance) wrote:

Luna----ry to not let yourself believe that smoking keeps the 'devil"
away, OR that stopping begs for disaster. It was coincidence---nothing
more!


I know that. Remember? I said it's bad luck to be superstitious. Get
it? Bad luck. To be superstitious. See? If you think that it's bad
luck to be superstitious, then that's a superstition! Ah well. It's
just another really funny paradoxical joke that no one gets but me. I
laugh every day, but I'm usually the only one laughing while everyone
else has a blank stare and you hear crickets on the soundtrack.

Also, perhaps the "bad" things that seem to happen when you stop
smoking, not only would have happened, anyway, but just wouldnt have
SEEMED so traumatic IF not for the extra stress of having to deal with
the bad thing PLUS stressing over wanting a cigarette. That extra bit of
stress tips the balance.

Absopositively. It's not that smoking relieves stress, it's that
withdrawal causes it. As long as nothing else is going on, I can handle
the withdrawal stress. But really, when is nothing else going on?
Pretty much never.

Anyway, I read the rest of your post, even though I snipped it.
Honestly, I'm not a negative person or a positive person. I mean, I
feel bad about the bad things and good about the good things, but I
don't think the way I _feel_ about stuff will change what actually
happens. But changing how you feel is a worthy thing in and of itself.
There's usually a bright side no matter how bad things are, like when I
posted about the break-in and having to move to this condo, I mentioned
that I've met some really cool neighbors here and it's closer to work.

I read something in a book once, about how people say "If only this
hadn't happened, my life would be so much better!" But, you really never
know _what_ would have happened instead, and it could have been
something even worse!

I'm not supposed to even say I haven't reached my goal, that's
"complaining about everything" and having Hardy Har Har syndrome.
Instead I'll be like The Lyin' Lion in your story and say "I have
reached my goal! Everything is perfect!"


In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

Is that why you still haven't reached your goal?

--
Most people are dumb as bricks; some people are dumber than that. -- MFW


"Luna" wrote in message
...
I don't see how that applies to me, since I've posted quite a bit here
about positive things that have happened, are happening, and are going
to happen.

Can you conceive of any situation in which something bad happens, and
someone posts about it, which would _not_ lead you to accusing them of
having Hardy Har Har syndrome? Or, to avoid being labeled with that
syndrome, must we only post about positive experiences and pretend the
bas ones never happen? That, my friend, is living in denial.

I think if you actually read my posts, you'd see that every time I fail,
I keep trying, and that every time something bad happens that was beyond
my control, I find the good in it. Whereas you are much more like the
hyena, except instead of insisting that everything is bad in your own
life, you do it to other people. Telling them to give up, just stay
fat, they'll never make it, etc.

In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

Hardy Har Har was a laughing hyena that used to hang around with a lion.
The thing about Hardy was that no matter what was happening, it was bad.
He
complained about everything and always knew that bad things were about to
happen to him, were happening to him, and had happened to him. He had
the
most negative worldview possible. He used this perspective as an excuse
for
not doing anything to help himself.

--
Most people are dumb as bricks; some people are dumber than that. -- MFW


"Luna" wrote in message
...
I don't even know what that is.

In article ,
"JC Der Koenig" wrote:

You have a bad case of the Hardy Har Har syndrome.