Boston's Man with Van has been working on his web site. If you need help with a small move or delivery, experience, equipment and prompt arrival spells convenience. Prices are timed or flat rates. Equipment includes dollies, furniture blankets, tie-downs and more. Check out the link to yelp then give him a call.

Delving back into the book Caffeine Blues brought an IFIC brochure to
my attention, What You Should Know About Caffeine. Before reading an
IFIC brochure consider what you should know about the IFIC (the food
industry's International Food Information Council).

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q4/truth.html

IFIC sponsers have included Monsanto Agricultural Company, NutraSweet,
Kraft General Foods, Ajinomoto, Du Pont and Calgene, Frito-Lay,
Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and M&M/Mars.

Note that in regard to food biotechnology and genetic research their
priority is to "develop actionable strategies, messages, and language
that will express information positively about the process and
products--without stirring fears or negative connotations."

The IFIC is mentioned online at
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/WhoRuns.html --a site dedicated to
making people aware of the dangers of MSG. Find out what MSG toxicity
does to you. Learn how to avoid MSG.

What about aspertame? The IFIC has a publication entitled Everything
You Need to Know About Aspertame. Here's some info about aspertame
you're not likely to find in an IFIC publication:
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/

Take a look at this page:
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/aspart.p17 for some insight into
the Monsanto/NutrSweet strategy that resembles tobacco company
strategy. Note the roles of the IFIC and FDA that are presented.

When I first stop watching TV it was awkward, "what do I do now?" How could I turn my back on TV, my friend who waits patiently with endless hours of entertainment and sales messages? What happens if you turn off the TV and just do nothing? You might be surprised. Try it.

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/

Scrambling for my other Pilot G-2 07 fine tip red ink pen, the coolest highlighter ever. Am I reading too much?

iPab helps me remember Don Miguel Ruiz's Four Agreements

Why am I a minimalist? Because I have no choice. I'm sure that given
my druthers having a private jet and beachfront property in all the
popular destinations would be preferred. Given that I drive the Hoopty
Van with an attitude of gratitude, it makes sense to focus on the raw
materials at my disposal.

Photo: Mom and Jeff in the kitchen of her house in Brockton.

Patricia Amanda Lindahl was born on Old County Road in Thomaston, Maine on January 28th, 1941. I was born in Rockland, Maine on January 15th two weeks shy of her 17th birthday. My father, Dennis Collins was 21 years old, infamous, yet charming in a way that worked with my mother. We moved to Waltham, Massachusetts when I was five. It was me and Pete, Carol was born shortly thereafter and a year later Jeff was born.  

My parents were divorced shortly after Jeff came along. The burden of four small children was a heavy one but she always managed to keep a clean, presentable place with all well-fed and suitably clothed. We even took vacations and if there was something we really wanted or needed, it always seemed to come through.

She did the best she could. And we had a lot of fun. Trips to the beach. Trips to Maine. Riding in the Rambler. Mom was generous, forgiving, hardworking, good-natured, fun-loving and possessed of yankee ingenuinity. The absolute best thing about Mom was her family, the Lindahls. We were closest to Grampy, Uncle David, Uncle Dick and Aunt Judy, Aunt Nancy and Dick Leonard, Aunt Maggie and Rick, Uncle Hank, Uncle Jimmy and Uncle George. Great stories and sweet memories associated with all. Her family was her greatest blessing and made her rich in ways that most people can't imagine.  

What Mom loved most were her grandkids. And they loved her. She was great with kids. She loved her cat Tigger. She loved her family and friends. She had many friends. She loved her kids. She loved Laura, my ex-wife. Here's to the memory of a woman who, despite many bitter and harsh realities never stopped trying, never stopped giving, and never stopped loving.

I've written about my excitement over 4-Hour Body but I wish to express my need to go deeper. The China Study exposes slow carb as defective due to high protein intake and exclusion of beneficial fruits, vegetables and grains which is illogical and a good indicator of an unbalanced approach. The kettlebell routine I like. Eating large quantities of meat and excluding natural unprocessed foods? Does not compute.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

“The part of life we really live is small.” For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/24/on-the-shortness-of-life-an-introduction-to-seneca/