I ALWAYS "go/give 100%-EFFORT" ... at my "JOB"!

... (The "Occupational-DIVISION":
17%- Monday, 19%-Tuesday, 18%-Wednesday, 21%-Thursday, 7%-Friday, 13%-Saturday, 5%-Sunday)


-- "That's been one of my mantras - FOCUS & SIMPLICITY. 'SIMPLE' CAN-be hardER than 'COMPLEX': You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
(--Steve Jobs)
(... I'm ALL-about "Establishing 'GOALS'", in-order to ACHIEVE 'em.)


-- 'Tis a DELAYED-"celebration" of "Global 'Belly-LAUGH' Day"!  
(... 'Twas January 24, at 1:24 pm.)
... So, in HONOR-of THAT day, be ... FUNNY ... EACH & EVERY day!)



-- So, I guess there's a SLIGHT-delay to my BEGINNING my "PROGRAMMING"-class at Miami-Dade.
(... APPARENTLY, there is NO "Weekly-REVIEW" for the FIRST-week.)
SHUCKS!  

... THAT allows/gives ME more-time to LEARN (MORE) "Binary" & "ASCII-coding"*.

... In lieu of my NOT-attending my 'FAUX'/NON-existent "REVIEW" today, I JUST kinda-"hung-OUT" today. 

((... I, MAINLY, "shot the (proverbial) 'SHIT'".
... 'Twas "MESSY".
... It's okay.  ... I've got a MAID-service!))

... Seriously though, I DID watch PARTS-of a couple SPOOKY-flicks--'Joy Ride' & Swim Fan'--NEITHER of which I'd ever-SEEN!
(... "NOICE!")


-- In a way, this blog is KINDA-like "MY-Memoirs--tentatively entitled: 'You're WELCOME, Mankind'.
(--EGOTISTICAL-Sheldon, 'The Big Bang Theory')


-- GOTTA "practice":

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... TRANSLATION:
"I am AMAZING & INSPIRING!"

(... I tell MYSELF that EVERY-morning, ... as I START my blog-post.)





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...

My-OWN 'Pursuit of HAPPY-ness':

...
UUUGGGHHH!  AAARRRGGGHHH!  Oh, sweet I-RONY!
So, UN-fortunately, "that URINARY-urge" "DISTURBED my SLUMBER" at ~2:15 am.  So, I "SIGNALED" to my Caregiver that I NEEDED-to URINATE.  DESPITE my URGENCY & pleaS for "HURRIED-attention", he "took his PRECIOUS-time" in putting-ON my shoes.  
(AUDIBLE-sigh)  
... SURE-enough, he SEMI-tied my RIGHT-shoe WAY-too LOOSE, & I SEMI-stumbled during my "TREK".  
("Fool me ONCE --> SHAME on YOU.
Fool me TWICE --> SHAME on ME."
--ORIGINAL-author UNKNOWN)


-- IF I say, "FIRST of all,"
... RUN-AWAY, 'cuz I have prepared RESEARCH, DATA, CHARTS & WILL 'DESTROY you'.
(... Case-CLOSED.)

-- I am "at a LOSS" ... of WHAT to do.
I recently-discovered that I'm quite GOOD-at "TWIDDLING my THUMBS".  My mom's ARDENT-DISapproval of SAID-"boredom" ASIDE, I'm VERY-HAPPY with my MANUAL-dexterity & -flexibility.
(... Find the "GOOD-side" of a "BAD-situation".)

... In lieu OF my STRUGGLES to determine a PRODUCTIVE-/BENEFICIAL-activity, I went to a NEARBY-"Convenience store" & asked,  
"May I have TEN THOUSAND marbles please?"
(--Flounder, 'Animal House')

... I USED-to ... & STILL-DO ... have some "RATHER-unorthodox" (Read as "REALLY f---in' STRANGE".) ways of "ENTERTAINING-myself": 
-- I would--RANDOMLY--act-out "MARTIAL ARTS"-techniques.  NOW, I "VISUALIZE"--in my-HEAD--HOW I would REACT-to various STRIKES, & "record" the techniques to TEACH.
-- RATHER-than "TWIDDLE my THUMBS", I would--MENTALLY--design MATHEMATICAL-"conundrums" ... to SOLVE 'em.  I "THINK--in NUMBERS--even-MORE NOW!
-- I USED-to "convert ANYTHING into a "GAME" or "PATTERN".  NOW, I HAFTA-determine the PROBABILITY/STATISTICS of ALL-deeds I do, in order-to ENSURE "REPETITIVE-satisfaction".        


-- "Do NOT 'judge', lest YE be 'judged'."
(--Matthew 7:1, Bible)

... "For a 'SEED' to achieve its 'GREATEST-expression', it MUST-come 'COMPLETELY-UNdone'.  The 'shell' CRACKS, its 'insides' come-OUT & EVERYTHING CHANGES.  To someone who doesN'T understand 'GROWTH', it would LOOK-like 'COMPLETE-DESTRUCTION'."
(--Cynthia Occelli)   

... IMAGERY: My HEAD is my "SHELL".  My societal-OBSERVATIONS/recommended-CHANGES are my "INSIDES".  My intuitive-SOLUTIONS are OFTEN-"MIS-understood" as DESTRUCTIVE.      


-- To CONTINUE my PREP-work for my STARTING my "CS50 -- Programming"-class TOMORROW at Miami-Dade College, I printed-OUT seven pages of the "ASCII-Code"* ... to ASSIST my LEARNING the "LETTERS-aspect" of "BINARY".

-- "'HAPPINESS' is NOT something 'Ready-MADE'.  
... It comes from YOUR-own ACTIONS."
(--Dalai Lama)

... Happiness and love are what you MAKE of 'em.
The more you MAKE, the more you HAVE.  ...
(... AM I advocating/SUPPORTING "Socialism"?!
... No, no, ... NO!  I am merely-PROMOTING "SOCIAL/NON-'hermit' activitIES".)
(... A.J., .... "PRACTICE what you PREACH.") 

... Regarding MY suspension--in high school--

ME: "I still maintain that he kicked-HIMSELF in the balls."
(--Kat Strafford, '10 Things I Hate About You')

(... I was--PROBABLY--"HATED" at St Thomas Aquinas High School--for my UNIQUE-combination of ACADEMIC-excellence, HILARIOUS-reparte', ATHLETIC-prowess & kind-DISRESPECT of/for authority.)

But, ALAS!
"You doN'T ALWAYS-HAFTA-be what everyone WANTS you to be, ya know."
(--Kat, '10 T.I.H.A.Y.')

(... Can I get an "AMEN!"?)

... My "high school"-principal WANTED me to be "someone I'm NOT"--e.g. an UN-funny, "STRAIGHT-as-an-ARROW", NON-sarcastic, "Neo-MAXI Zoom-DWEEBIE".
(--'The Breakfast Club')  Completely-AGHAST & -OFFENDED by her--INDIRECTLY--telling ME HOW-to "VOICE MY words", I "FILLED" MY VALEDICTORY with HUMOROUS-comments, SMARTass-remarks & "Insubordinate-remarks" ... as MY KINDA-"F--- you" to her.
(... "Stick THAT in your PIPE, & smoke it!")      

... My brother--to/about ME:

"WHAT are YOU gonna do about MY-foot lodged-SQUARELY' up YOUR ass'?!"
...
MY reply: 
"Well, it really DEPENDS-on DEPTH.  
... I'd EITHER see a PROCTOLOGIST or a general-SURGEON.
... And, of-COURSE, I'd CRY."

HIM: ... "Like a lil' BITCH! Ha ha HA!"
... 
ME: "Speaking of HILARITY, how COMEDIC would it be, if/WHEN a 'CRIPPLE' 'REARRANGES your KNEES' ... & LAUGHS?!"

-- THIS song TRUKY-inspires me:  

'I Want You To Want Me'

by Cheap Tick

"I want you to want me

I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me

I'll shine up the old brown shoes
Put on a brand new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Feeling all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me

I'll shine up the old brown shoes
Put on a brand-new shirt
I'll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?
Feeling all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?

Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you crying?

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm begging you to beg me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me

                               I want you to want me"  

(... MY-version -- 'I'll Lead You to Lead Me')

(... My-BRAIN TO my-LEGS:)

"I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!
I NEED you to NEED me!
I'll 'FEEL-you' to 'FEEL-me'!
I'm YEARNING'-for you to YEARN-for me!
"I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!
I NEED you to NEED me!
I'll 'FEEL-you' to 'FEEL-me'!

I'll lift-UP my IN-jured LEGS,
Shift my weight through my HIPS
And applYYYYY some bio-PHYSICS,
To ah-SIST in your 'WAH-KING'!

DidN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?!

Oh, didN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?!

Feelin' all-ALONE with-OUT a means-of-transportation ... but WTH a HEART!

Oh, didN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?! 

"I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!

I NEED you to NEED me!

I'll 'FEEL-you' to 'FEEL-me'!

I'm YEARNING'-for you to YEARN-for me!

I'll lift-UP my IN-jured LEGS,

Shift my weight through my HIPS

And applYYYYY some bio-PHYSICS,

To ah-SIST in your 'WAH-KING'!

DidN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?!

Oh, didN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?!

Feelin' all-ALONE with-OUT a means-of-transportation, ya KNOW you FEEL-like CRYIN'!

Oh, didN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?! 

Feelin' all-ALONE with-OUT a means-of-transportation, ya KNOW you FEEL-like CRYIN'!

Oh, didN'T I, didN'T I, didN'T I feel you TRYIN'?! 

I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!

I NEED you to NEED me!

I'll 'FEEL-you' to 'FEEL-me'!

I'm YEARNING'-for you to YEARN-for me!

I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!

I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!

I'll LEAD you to LEAD me!

I'll LEEEEAD you to LEAD me!"

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-- "NO amount of 'SMILING at a flight of STAIRS' has EVER made it turn-INTO a RAMP.  EVER."
(--Stella Young)

... Regarding the saying, "The ONLY 'disability' in LIFE is ... a 'BAD-attitude'.":
THAT is ... (HHHMMM, HOW do I say this?) ... BULLSHIT.
I've RECOGNIZED ALL I CAN & CAN'T do.

... I've spent the last ... ~11,253 days DIS-proving CYNICS & DOUBTERS.

-- I've GOTTA allocate my TIME & FOCUS BETTER!
There are (FREQUENT) times, when I'm devoting MUCH/ALL of my ATTENTION to/on "BLOGGING".

... NOW that I've RE-STARTED school, I've REALIZED that I've GOTTA concentrate MORE-on my ACADEMIC-pursuits than on my PUBLIC-updates.

... Even though this class is PURELY/ONLY/JUST for FUN, MY-personality "creates" the MINDSET of "I LIKE-to FINISH what I START."








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...

I DO what I DO, 'cuz I kinda-HAVE-to!

... --Personification of MY-HEART


-- UUUGGGHHH!
"You know what I did last night?
... I DRANK a LAVA-LAMP & FUCKED a GERMAN SHEPERD."
(--Dirty Mike & the Boys, 'The Other Guys'-Gag Reel)


-- (WARNING) I had a GREAT-start to my way!
At ~6:09 am, I "Dumped a Deluge of Deafening-Dung".

... "Alliteration aside."
'Tis ENCOURAGING/"REWARDING" when my "Bio-PHYSICAL calculations" prove CORRECT!  
(... KNOWING I "EAT" ... via peg-tube ... at ~6:00 am on weekdays, IF my stomach "SIGNALS-to me", I'll get-in my wheelchair EARLY to BETTER "stimulate my BOWEL-activity".
... Ergo, I REPEATED my "Excretory-EXTRAVAGANZA" at ~11:25 am.


-- Last night I "took a BIT of a" REMARKABLE-"step" in my "RECOVERY"!  As a TRIBUTE-to SAID-"feat", I thought I'd RE-design the SONG in-question:

"High Dive"
(by Andrew McMahon)

I took the train home, facing backwards
Another hopeless chase
Echo Park, Indian Summer

I wrote a new song
About your new life
Like steps I retrace
Block letters in your little black notebook

Yeah

Flashbacks get me close
I'm almost there

Headlight in the driveway
You stand in the window waiting
The stars are out tonight
One million fires burning

Out there on the high dive
You dance with your headphones on
And I could watch you all night long
Dancing to someone else's song

Oh, dancing to someone else's song
Oh, dancing to someone else's

Black jacket, a blue motorbike
Pass the mission in the moonlight
Teenagers in the alley kissing

Smell the gas burn, saw your street sign
Doing 80 in a 45
Throwing shadows you could hear if you listen

Flashbacks get me close
I'm almost there

Headlight in the driveway
You stand in the window waiting
The stars are out tonight
One million fires burning

Out there on the high dive
You dance with your headphones on
And I could watch you all night long
Dancing to someone else's song

Oh, dancing to someone else's song
Oh, dancing to someone else's

Oh
Oh, oh

Oh
Oh, oh

Flashbacks get me close
But I'm staring at someone else's

Headlights in your driveway
You stand in the window waiting
The stars are out tonight
One million fires burning

Meet me on the high dive
You dance with your headphones on
So I could watch you all night long
Dancing to someone else's song

Oh, dancing to someone else's song
Oh, dancing to someone else's song

Someone else's song
To someone else's song
To someone else's
Someone else's
Someone else's
Song

(MY-version, 'Strong-WALK':)

"I practice at home, with my back-STRAIGHT.
Another hope-FULL STRIDE
Davie, South-Flohr-IHDA

I TAKE a SHORT-STRIDE
To be more STAY-BUHL.
Small-steps I must TAKE
To maintain STAH-BIHL-IH-TEE in my GAIT.

YEAH.

Muscle-memory HELPS
Me to WALK where I NEED-to GO.
My LEGS are strong-ER.
One million nerves 'CLICKING'.

AH-LOHN in my 'CLUH-TERD MIND',
I 'WALK' with BOTH-eyes UP
And, I wanna 'WALK', as my brain 'BEGS':
'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!

Oh, 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!
Oh, 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!

'T.B.I.', severed-NERVES
PRIH-VENT my 'WALKING' sans WALKER.
For 'ANSWERS' my MIND's still-'SEARCHING'!

I watch my FEET, even though I shouldN'T.
'Tis merely 'Force of HABIT'.
Leanin' BACK but I SHOULD-be 'paying-FORWARD' 


'SELF-drive' gets me CLOSE.
I'm ALMOOOST-THERE!

My thighs 'CHURN' as I 'WALK'
I NEED patience as I'm WAITING
For nerves to RE-DEV'LOP.
NUMEROUS 'dead'-NERVES.

As I 'PRACTICE' with my WALKER,
I HAFTA-bend my knees, as I STEP.
I doN'T WANT the EASY-way OUT:
'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!

 Oh, 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!
 Oh, 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's ... 

OH!  Oh, oh.
OH!  Oh, ... oh.  

WILL-power gets me CLOSE.
I doN'T WANNA-be 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's ...

My thighs 'CHURN' as I 'WALK'
I NEED patience as I'm WAITING
For nerves to RE-DEV'LOP.

NUMEROUS 'dead'-NERVES.

SHOW me some REACTION
To my MANY 'neural-NOTES'!
... OTHERWISE, I'd HAFTA--only CON-SIDER--
'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!

Oh, 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!
Oh, 'WALKING' with someone-ELSE's LEGS!

Someone-ELSE's LEGS!
With someone-ELSE's LEGS!
With someone-ELSE's ... 
Someone-ELSE's ... 
Someone-ELSE's ...
LEGS!"
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-- My EX-girlfriend's GOSSIPING with/to her friends:
"You know what's sexIER than a 'BAD-BOY'?  A MAN who 'has his LIFE together'!"

... I may-NOT SEEM WELL-off ... in terms-of "CONTROLLING various-aspects of my 'STATUS', ... but "LOOKS can be DECEIVING".
... MENTALLY: I'm "KICK-ASS"!
... PHYSICALLY: I'm IMPROVING!
... OCCUPATIONALLY: I "WORK"-for ... "the PEOPLE"!
... FINANCIALLY: I'm MORE-than "VERY-COMFORTABLE"!


-- "The ONLY-place where 'SUCCESS' comes BEFORE 'WORK' is ... in the dictionary."
(--NBA-analyst Jalen Rose)
(... My--EVENTUAL--"WALKING"-"SUCCESS" will-ONLY come-from REPETITIVE, RELENTLESS "WORK".)

... The MORE you TRY, the MORE you FAIL. 
The MORE you FAIL, the MORE you LEARN. 
The MORE you LEARN, the MORE you GROW.


-- THANKFULLY, a FRIEND of mine emailed me his GOOD-notes from our "Programming"-class at Miami-Dade College yesterday-evening.
(... I was ABSENT ... from CLASS, 'cuz I CHOSE-to attend my high school's WRESTLING-"dual meet".)


... "Sometimes 'being IGNORED' is WORSE-than 'being BLAMED'."
(--'NUMB3RS')



-- ME, to my YOUNG 'Karateka', as we SPAR:
"Stop THINKING you can hit me, & HIT ME!"
(--Morpheus, 'The Matrix')
(... I did NOT attend "Martial Arts"-CLASS today, 'cuz the weather was ... "POURING!")


-- A friend said she wanted a "Treadmill-powered Netflix-account", so it ONLY plays shows, WHEN she runs.

... HOW 'BOUT a "'WALKING'-fueled 'Medication'"-account?!

(... I get "NUTRITION", when I PRACTICE my "WALKING".)

... Call it "WALK-ification".

...