2/18/2024

Salutations.

It is now 11:12PM EST for me.

It took me over an hour to find the Amazon.com item I wanted to recommend for this list recently, which is why I’m starting now. I have more time to type in this blog because of the holiday. I chose to not work during the holiday. Here is a quote from www.google.com about it:

‘ This year, Presidents Day is on Monday, Feb. 19. The holiday is celebrated on the third Monday of every February because of a bill signed into law in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. ‘

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I wanted to go to the laundromat tomorrow morning, but I’m not sure if it will be open during the holiday. So, I’ll just do other things. For example, I’m going to the supermarket, but not when it opens. I’m going to wait for it to prepare it’s pre-cooked foods, so that I can consider buying a few of those foods, so let’s say 2 hours after it opens.

So, here’s the Amazon.com item recommendation. As always, there’s no obligation, and I’m not officially sponsoring them. I just think it’s a good idea. (Of course, I think it helps with the advice. Otherwise, why would I type it in if it discouraged the advice? Something recommended that does not interfere with the advice. I thought that was implied. To be more accurate, I didn’t even think of it before, not like now.):

‘ Cornucopia 2-Ounce Plastic Squeeze Bottles (24-Pack); Empty Flip Cap Purse-Size, Travel Size, Clear Plastic Containers for Lotion, Shampoo, Etc. ‘

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I just purchased it recently today, and it’s only about $9 with Prime shipping available. I’m using it to put my mouthwash in to take to work. And this is the mouthwash I am using:

‘ Listerine Original Antiseptic Oral Care Mouthwash to Kill 99% of Germs That Cause Bad Breath, Plaque and Gingivitis, ADA-Accepted Mouthwash, Original Flavored Oral Rinse, 1 L ‘

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Amazon.com offers it for about $6 with Prime shipping available, but I purchased mine from the supermarket I normally shop in. It’s the yellow one. For some time, I don’t know how long, I’ve been purchasing the travel size mouthwashes Amazon.com would offer, but they all have the same flavor that I can find, normally the ‘green’ flavor. So, for a change of pace, I recently decided to try a different flavor, and I decided to use ‘Listerine Original’, the ‘yellow’ flavor. I think that’s understandable. Since Amazon.com doesn’t sell the travel size version for their original ‘yellow’ flavor, earlier today, I was looking for a travel size bottle to take to work. I’ll just pour that ‘yellow’ mouthwash into it. If you choose to look at the Amazon.com link, one of the images shows you the travel size item with an affixed label that it comes with the word ‘Mouthwash’ written on it. If you think that 2 oz is too small, you can always bring 2 ‘2 oz’ bottles to work. That way, if you are not able to use the mouthwash for the 1st bottle, you can always bring it to work the next day you go to work. The idea is to have a travel size bottle to take to work. That is why I eventually chose the ‘2 oz’ size bottle, instead of, let’s say, a 4 oz bottle. You can always bring to work 2 ‘2 oz’ size bottles if you want to use more mouthwash.

[It is now 6:21AM EST for me. I’m not going to use all 24 bottles. It’s only about $9 for 24 bottles, so I plan to just keep 10 bottles, and to put the rest in the recycle bin. Maybe I’ll keep 2 more bottles. I’ll prepare a few in advance, and then see how that goes, but I won’t keep all 24 bottles. I don’t need all of them.]

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I have this idea that I invented in the past week called ‘Attention effort’. In my opinion, for many expectations, it is the best idea that I have ever invented. By intent, if you choose to use it, contemplationally say ‘Attention effort’, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you choose to use it, you should notice that it will be an obvious change in your strategy. I want to explain that idea next week, so that I can give you other ideas today/tomorrow. I’ll only have time to explain maybe 3 of them today/tomorrow. I want to explain these ideas before explaining idea ‘Attention effort’. And based on past performance, it’s very likely that I will invent another idea before next week arrives, an idea that’s even better than idea ‘Attention effort’! That happens a lot to me. I always invent new ideas that I choose to replace previously invented ideas to explain in this blog. So, we’ll? see what happens.

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It is now 11:51PM EST for me.

Since I’m not going to do my laundry tomorrow morning, I’ll have more time to type in this blog. (That reminds me from history class that short moment when America actually had a surplus, compared to the deficit the government(and who else?) is regularly paying the interest on.) In my opinion, it is a rare thing for me to have this much extra time, a few more extra hours, to type for a blog. I will try to give you at least 3 whole ideas in this blog. I am going to look for that music video and trailer to recommend. To find and prepare, that usually takes about an hour and a half. As a bonus, but not a recommendation, As I was looking in www.youtube.com within that past week, I found out that Ben Affleck made another Dunkin Donuts commercial. I didn’t watch it. I only looked at it for like 20 seconds. I don’t want to recommend it because I don’t think it will be ‘as good’, so to speak, as the commercial that I recommended in the past list. The people that visited Dunkin Donuts in the commercial looked genuine, and I don’t think that genuine feeling will be in the recent commercial. I still think you may want to watch it, but I’m not recommending it for this blog. So, if you are going to be here? in an hour and a half, I’ll see you then.

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It is now 2:09AM EST for me.

It’s been over 2 hours until I was finished. I found the music video very quickly. It was looking for a trailer that took me so long. Anyway, the music video that I watched for the 1st time and recommend for this advice is called ‘Dancing with Myself’ by Maren Morris. Here is a quote from link www.rollingstone.com about the music video:

‘ Maren Morris reimagines Billy Idol’s classic “Dancing With Myself” as a new wave bop in a video celebrating Singles Awareness Day.

The visual finds Morris alone (naturally) in Nashville’s famed Grimey’s record store, where the singer peruses the shelves and performs a New Order-ed take on the 1981 hit to an audience of no one.

Morris added of the song in a behind-the-scenes video, “‘Dancing With Myself’ to me is about enjoying the pleasure of your own company and celebrating that and not stigmatizing it, and being righteously selfish. I think that more people should do that; I think you exist better to your loved ones when you prioritize yourself.” ‘

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I believe that many adults have experiences with relationship break-ups, and that watching this music video may help you cope with such experiences, focusing on the women, since the lead singer is a woman in this music video.

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Age verification:

Born Maren Larae Morris
April 10, 1990 (age 33)
Arlington, Texas, U.S.

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I found the music video by selecting in www.youtube.com publisher ‘InMusic Official’, select ‘Videos’, then select category ‘Title: New Songs Of The Week (February 16, 2024) | New Music Friday’. According to the link I’m using, it was published 7 hours ago. A video clip of the music video starts 1 minute and 10 seconds into that video clip collection.

Here is a quote from the lyrics:

Oh, oh, dancing with myself
Oh, oh, dancing with myself
When there’s nothing to lose, and there’s nothing to prove
And I’m dancing with myself, oh, oh, uh-oh

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To watch the music video, search in www.youtube.com for phrase ‘dancing with myself maren morris’, and it should be one of the 1st selections offered, with 1.2M views. It was published 3 days ago by publisher ‘Maren Morris’.

Like the Rolling Stone review quote said, ‘Maren Morris reimagines Billy Idol’s classic “Dancing With Myself” as a new wave bop in a video celebrating Singles Awareness Day.’ . So, I’m presenting that ‘reimagining’, that refurbished use from Billy Idol’s classic ‘Dancing With Myself’. In my opinion, it is my belief that people in general already re-purpose music played on the radio. Seeing it done by another music video can be a refreshing experience, without needing to re-purpose it yourself, to have someone else do it.

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And now, to the movie trailer that took me so long to find. I looked through my normal references, but I couldn’t find one. I considered the others, but there were elements in them that caused me to not choose them. For example, even though the 2nd Ben Affleck Dunkin Donuts commercial would probably be incredibly entertaining to watch, if you compared it to the 1st commercial, I don’t think it would be as good as the1st commercial. That’s why I didn’t use it as a reference.

I just tried to change that trailer, but I couldn’t do it. I guess I could use a commercial instead.

It is now 2:52AM EST for me.

I just changed the trailer choice. I now choose a hotel commercial, one that I recently found. I went to www.youtube.com, searched for phrase ‘hotel commercial 2023’, I selected in the upper right hand corner ‘Filters’, then selected from ‘SORT BY’, ‘View count’. I then selected from that selection a hotel commercial that I watched before. I’m going to watch it again now for this advice:

It is now 2:57AM EST for me.

I just watched it again. The hotel commercial that I watched again and recommend for this advice is called ‘Where Travels Come True :30 | Choice Hotels’. It has 14M views, and was published 10 months ago by publisher ‘Choice Hotels’.

In my opinion, the best part of the commercial was when the wife, with her husband’s support, chose to wave the wand, and some sort of magic light came out of it. They both reacted surprised when the light came out of that wand. The woman instantly showed up and said ‘What did I say?’, and the wife said ‘Sorry.’

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It is now 3:03AM EST for me.

Even though I have more time than normal to type these ideas in, I also used up a lot of that time. I have at least 4 hours as of now, so I’m going to take a quick eating break before I begin. See you soon.

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It is now 3:17AM EST for me.

I am going to prepare the illustration references, to make it easier to quote. That should take me only a few minutes. There are 2 of them.

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It is now 3:29AM EST for me.

Opportunity:

I call this 1st idea ‘Opportunity’. I just chose the name less than a minute ago. Here’s the definition I’m using for this advice from www.dictionary.com:

a situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal.

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Idea ‘Opportunity’ primarily uses a scene from episode 3.12 ‘Injustice’ from sci-fi tv series ‘Superman & Lois(2023)’. I haven’t watched the show in general. I ‘fast-forward’ through one season, only watching certain highlights, so I’m not sure about the accuracy of my interpretation of that scene. Based on my interpretation, it is when Lex Luthor(Michael Cudlitz) meets Lois Lane(Elizabeth Tulloch) and Clark Kent(Tyler Hoechlin) after being in jail for 17 years. The episode is available streaming from Amazon.com, and according to Amazon Video, that meeting starts about 32 minutes and 53 seconds into the episode. The scene I’m actually going to quote starts 34 minutes and 29 seconds into the episode:

Lex Luthor: ‘I was innocent! 17 years of my life, gone! And you think I want words?’

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To continue with explaining idea ‘Opportunity’, I’ll use a scene from episode 5.13 ‘Goldfaced’ from sci-fi tv series ‘The Flash(2019)’. The episode is available streaming from Amazon.com, and according to Amazon Video, that scene starts 20 minutes and 18 seconds into the episode. Here is a quote:

Nora West-Allen(Jessica Parker Kennedy): ‘I didn’t think any of them would agree, but four of them actually jumped at the chance.’

Sherloque Wells(Tom Cavanagh): ‘Of course they did.’

Nora: ‘Mm-hmm.’

Wells: ‘Because I owe them money. I’m behind on all the alimony payments, and they don’t know what Earth I’m on, until now.’

Nora: ‘What?’

Wells: ‘That’s right.’

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about 20 minutes and 43 seconds:

Nora: ‘You married the same woman seven times?’

Wells: ‘Well, she’s the one for me.’

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I’m using that ‘Flash’ reference as illustration proof that, pretty much, all of the super villains and superheroes in the DC reality shown in these episodes, all of them at least are aware of alternate realities. Many of them probably directly interact with certain established to be stable alternate realities, like Sherloque Wells obviously does. I don’t think that the general public in that DC universe is officially aware of them, but if all of the super villains and super heroes are aware of them, then in my opinion, a lot of things are still happening. In relation to advice said, you may watch more of that ‘Flash’ episode for more information.

Going back to the ‘Superman & Lois’ episode, that means Lex Luthor, probably the most dangerous super villain in those DC related tv shows, he absolutely knows about those alternate realities. In this idea that I imagined, many businesses and corporations from their reality and from other, alternate realities, they see Lex Luthor being in jail for 17 years as a huge opportunity. They studied what the other Lex Luthors from other realities have done, and when Lex Luthor gets out of jail, they can participate in that situation. Many opportunities that they missed from those other Lex Luthors, including their own Lex Luthors, they can now benefit from the Lex Luthor that is about to get out of jail. So, as soon as Lex Luthor gets out of jail, which just recently occurred in that ‘Superman & Lois’ episode, massive amounts of opportunity will start occurring for the next 20 years, based on their arrangements, and many companies and corporations are heavily invested in Lex Luthor starting his life again.

I recommend that when you watch that ‘Superman & Lois’ scene, you can use that moment as a refurbished example of ‘getting in the beginning’. In an imagined context, there are so many things that the othe Lex Luthors have done. I know that Lex Luthor is usually portrayed as being evil, but if you read some of the comics, his participations are also integrated within the American government. In one comic book, he casually threatened Superman with the help of one of his employees, saying to Superman that if anything happened to him, that the Stock Market would crash! Also, in a few? of those comics books, for the sake of saving humanity itself, Lex Luthor has been known to help Superman. Plus, he is still a human being. He changes from being good to being evil. I imagined sometimes just interacting with Lex Luthor during those moments when he chooses to be good.

Using that ‘Superman & Lois’ scene refurbished, you can use that example to help you interact with certain students in school that you believe are about to begin some sort of promising participation, a little like what Lex Luthor is about to be doing. That one option may help you interact more with certain students.

All right. In my opinion, if you imagine evaluating people based on lists, like ‘who is the smartest in the world’, and Lex Luthor is identified in the DC universe to be the smartest man in the world’, well, in my opinion, the general public should not be exposed to certain list based information. They’re not prepared for it. For example, Lex Luthor is the smartest man in their world, and probably in many other alternate reality worlds, but he gives the general public a bad example with what he does with his intelligence from time to time. In the tv show’s reality, the only person who is able to send Lex Luthor to jail from time to time is Superman. Lois Lane was able to do it, but that is only for certain issues, and with the help of her husband, who happens to be Clark Kent/Superman. He’s the smartes man in the world. There are so many things that he does in his reality that the general public will never be aware of. And if he chooses to ‘get away’ with many crimes, well, he is the smartest man in the world, and is capable of doing that.

To be fair, from time to time, I have noticed from certain comic books and movies that Lex Luthor during certain alternate reality/elseworld calamities, that he does try to save the Earth from such calamities, even though he fails to do so. So, he does have his positive traits.

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It is now 4:39AM EST for me.

I am going to prepare for the 2nd idea. That should take me maybe 5 or so minutes. I’ll see you when I start typing again.

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It is now 4:54AM EST for me.

To also not be reciprocated:

I just created the name for this idea. I call it ‘To also not be reciprocated’. I’ll use the definition of the word ‘unrequited’ from www.dictionary.com:

not returned or reciprocated:
unrequited love.

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In my opinion, there are many things that people should get reciprocations for, whether in school or at work. Reciprocations allow you to do your job well. Reciprocations allow you to do well in school. The intent of idea ‘To also not be reciprocated’ is to give you the option to do many things at work that does not require reciprocations from others. Sure, use and promote reasonable reciprocations, but it can also benefit you a great deal to also do many things without needing reciprocations from others. And so, I imagined an idea/story to illustrate such an idea.

All right. Here’s the new, revised story: In the early 80s, a company hired Artie Nielsen(Saul Rubinek), a character based on the sci-fi tv series ‘Warehouse 13(2009-2014)’. In this story, he’s a computer specialist. Here’s a quote that I found by searching in www.google.com for phrase ‘warehouse 13 wiki’, from link warehouse13.fandom.com:

Skills
Cryptography: Artie was a skilled cryptographer for the NSA.[1] When hired by the Warehouse, after its computer database was created by Hugo Miller, Artie personally designed its encryption.[17]
Extensive Knowledge: Artie has a vast range of knowledge on various subjects, ranging from language to history to literature to science.

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This happened in the early 80s: The company that hired Artie Nielsen already knows that the computer industry is expanding. And so, to make an obvious preparation for it, they hired Artie Nielsen, a certain computer specialist. Even though they are paying him a lot of money per year to work for them, even though they’re approving practically every proposal that he submits to him, even though, in a manner of speaking, within the company’s abilities, he can sit on any chair in the world, he can only do all of those things by himself. The company is already initiating obvious changes, but since it’s a new integration, they don’t want to have any obvious computer structure integration to occur for at least a decade. However, even though Artie Nielsen is getting approval for practically all of his proposals, he can only initiate those proposals by himself. And that means for the next 10 years of his career with that company, he is going to do many things ‘by himself’ that will not be reciprocated. And that’s what happened. He attended the social functions, made his presence known, submitted a lot of publications using the resources of the company, but much of what he did he did by himself, without being reciprocated for most of those things. It wasn’t until 10 of that did he finally get more people to work in his division, with more noticeable computer infrastructure for the company.

Now, even though it’s still the 80s in the story I’m still explaining, let’s imagine Artie Nielsen watching the movie ‘Heart of Stone(2023)’ starring Gal Gadot as Rachel Stone. As far as I’m aware of, it’s only available streaming from the streaming service Netflix. Here’s a quote from the movie, about 5 minutes and 40 seconds into it.

Man:(I don’t know who the actor is in the movie): ‘May I take this seat?’

Rachel Stone: (Rachel moves the chair with her foot towards him.) ‘Take it anywhere you like.’

Man: [chuckles] ‘Okay. Maybe later.’

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When Artie Nielsen laughed when he watched that scene, he also indicated a partical reciprocation from some of the things that he was doing for the company that he wasn’t being reciprocated for. Based on that imagined laughter, it is my belief that certain action movies help give people who are doing many things at work that are not being reciprocated, certain movies allow such people to vicariously imagine being reciprocated for those certain things, like the way the movie ‘Heart of Stone(2023)’ is allowing Artie Nielsen to feel like he’s being reciprocated for those certain things. Movie ‘Heart of Stone(2023)’ is an action movie. When that man was not being reciprocated by Rachel Stone, it created an opposite interpretation effect, if you watched more of the movie, not just that scene. Let me try to explain that effect: The protagonist, Rachel Stone, is being reciprocated in many ways, as being the hero, the action sequences that also accommodate her, saving life as we know it from a major villain. When you watch it, it is like she is re-defining what intelligence actually means. She’s very entertaining to watch. (Of course, if you choose to watch ‘Heart of Stone(2023)’ for this advice, watch it with inapproprieities removed.

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So, when using idea ‘To also not be reciprocated’, yes, it’s useful to have reciprocations. It is also useful to do many things without needing to be reciprocated, like the many things Artie Nielsen was doing for his job in the story, yet not being reciprocated for those many things. He really enjoyed watching the movie ‘Heart of Stone(2023)’ because it felt like he was being reciprocated for certain things he did that were not being reciprocated.

As almost always, this is the 1st time that I explained those ideas, that I put them into words. I only ‘talk’ about these ideas specifically in this blog. Maybe knowing this may help you understand why the explanations look the way it looks.

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It is now 5:44AM EST for me.

I am going to close this list now. Like I said before, I will explain idea ‘Attention effort’ next Monday night/Tuesday morning, an idea that I am currently actively using and that I invented less than a week ago, unless I change my mind. I think that’s 2/26/2024, Monday night. So, if you are there at that time, I’ll see you then.

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Rated TV-PG sci-fi violence, language, viewer discretion for tv series ‘Superman & Lois’. Rated TV-PG mature themes, sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for tv series ‘The Flash’. Rated TV-14 mature themes, sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for tv series ‘Warehouse 13’. Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, and some language, viewer discretion for movie ‘Heart of Stone’. Use only refurbished for advice references recommended. Throw away rest of episode, series, and movie. [Use mental bookmarks ‘Opportunity’ and ‘To also not be reciprocated’ for reference, allocation and prevention when needed.