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Posts by scottqmarcus
Most of life is done by rote. For most of us, alarm clocks buzz the same time every morning. The average grocery store stocks over 38,000 items; yet the standard shopper goes to the same store every week, usually on the same day, and chooses from the same few dozen items every outing. We become brand loyal, eating our meals at approximately the same period every day, leave for work at a uniform time,...
6/8/2011 7:49:18 PM
I am a perfect-o-holic. Sure, I know it's folly; yet I can picture that magical happy place where all goes according to plan and everything works out as I imagined. I have a plan. Today, I become the pinnacle of modern workplace efficiency. Without exception, every single solitary item on my to-do list will be accomplished - even those lingering on the pad since '07. Phone calls will be returned in...
5/18/2011 12:53:40 PM
In the end, we are remembered via the relationships we leave behind. I stand five-eight, no one's depiction of "towering giant." Someone of my stature is supposed to tip the scales at no more than 165 pounds. When I was 39 years old, I weighed 250. More frightening was that at such an early age, I experienced chest pains with regularity. As a father for two young sons, I was a ghost. My career was...
5/11/2011 3:30:05 PM
If deprivation was a successful weight loss strategy, obesity would be obliterated. At first blush, sacrificing one's favorites appears like it would blast away those extra pounds, and it does - but only temporarily. Long-term, it's unnatural and ineffective. Oh, sure, we can sacrifice our pet foods for brief periods. However, let's face it, as the joke goes, seven days of bland makes one weak. Without...
5/4/2011 1:48:37 PM
Pop quiz! What did they call "multitasking" in the eighties? Answer: "lack of focus." I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy-duddy (of course, using the term "fuddy-duddy" does tend to portray me as such), but like it or not, I am officially of a "certain age." More times than I care to admit, I have strutted with strong intention into the kitchen, and upon arrival, completely blanked as to why I...
4/13/2011 6:06:25 PM
Until moments ago, I was unaware of the term, "to throw a wobbly." Looking for a more colorful way to declare, "I am annoyed," I stumbled upon the expression at a website devoted entirely to idioms and their etymology. (Fellow word geeks unite! Our time has arrived!) Sure, I guess I could have simply said, "I am annoyed." There's nothing wrong with that. It's clear, simple, to the point. However, fashioning...
3/23/2011 1:22:57 PM
It seems like merely days ago the public dialogue bounced between the skyrocketing price of groceries and gasoline; the rising up of working people in the mid east - as well as our own mid west; and the rambings of a seemingly unstable, implausibly garrulous celebrity whose veins course with "dragon's blood." It seems like just days ago because, well, it was. Time zips by without delay and such topics...
3/16/2011 2:10:40 PM
While watching the news this morning, I was alerted to the practice of "combo-pilling," taking supposedly unrelated medications together to produce more powerful results toward a desired outcome. Combo-pilling diet drugs went mainstream in the 1980s, with the pairing of phentermine and fenfluramine (later known as "fen-phen"). This pairing, as well as a commercial related version, was heralded as the...
3/9/2011 3:18:31 PM
magine what life would be like if we each lived exactly 100 years - to the day. From the moment of birth, barring accidents, you knew the exact minute of your death. One some levels it could be reassuring; however, as the calendar years passed, it might get a little freaky. There would be no doubt about how much time was left on your clock. With that as the backdrop, pretend you are now 99 years and...
2/16/2011 5:29:56 PM
We're six weeks into the year; so, how are those New Year's resolutions workin' for ya? If they're now broken shards lying along the highway shoulder several miles in the rear view mirror, fret not, you stand not alone. According to surveys, as many as 80 percent of people give up their vast and glorious seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time plans by the tail end of January; more alarming is as many...
2/9/2011 7:53:08 PM