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1940 — Harv’s I-SELF story starts here ======== Junior, as shown in pic, he is already an in-mind FOCUSED OBSERVER thanks to being ‘alone’ in the big-city growth POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE named “sewer socialism” (circa 1850-1950 Milwaukee WI). The pic portrays central Wisconsin ‘vacation’ for Senior (he NEVER went back to farm nor marriage) — mother Connie is shown with or without sister Gloria who lived one day as a ‘blue baby’ — urbanite tavern-owner-son, Senior (Rh+), shown not yet into the full stupor as a functioning alcoholic (he lived to 78y through six dry-up cures until drink made him really sick due to an exhausted liver). Connie [the “sewer socialist” not politically active] lived into her 102nd year at her Milwaukee retirement home — the ‘not-good-enough’ son driving cross country to visit at least yearly, staying in a home guest room taking meals with the residents (Connie did not socialize with her fellow residents ☹️) — until maybe 2005 when he was departing in the retirement home hallway she announced, “Harvey, I don’t think we should see each other again.”😪 Harv, without hesitation responded, “Ma, I agree,” walking off — we never spoke again, or corresponded. Harv was the shotgun pregnancy not aborted. We three were the culmination of generations of what Harv labels as NO-TALK❗️Grand daughter Susan was afforded some Connie TALK and memorabilia before Connie’s death. The years tumbled on, with Harv’s I-SELF subconsciously still driven by his parochial education and his sewer-socialist tradition. He was a latch key kid — the best mother Connie could do in her life-circumstance — as an elementary student he traveled alone to spend summers spread among the mid WI relatives — the last year spent doing substantial 50-head farming work for one aunt/uncle who also owned a ‘hot’ dance hall — Harv worked both. Harv was left to his own devices in getting on in his ME-SELF life, yet he/Connie could be loosely described as a family of two. In 1961 Harv splintered off into marriage with Elaine. Connie alone then coped with her retirement with some Harv assist, focusing in on a life-end retirement home. Harv looked to his future as a SEWER SOCIALIST child — but did not know it then ❗️ That historical awareness came via life-long retro study in October 2025. Continued study aims at making the ‘correct’ choices for Harv’s Real Retirement 2025 status growth. ♠️ P.S. he retired from Bridge play with a one-quarter Masters‘ point.

dance combo

dance combo
2002 — Mother Connie and son Harv danced their lives together under the auspices of life-long NO-TALK parochialism, to whom she relegated Junior’s education and a life style basis. NOTE WELL — NO MALES SURVIVE FOR THE ABOVE OLD-AGE PARTYING❗️ From youth on Harv UNBELIEVED MANY TEACHINGS and TRADITIONS.

life 2026

2026 lifetime view of Harv — YEAR 88 still a YOUTHFUL SPIRIT 😏 1960-1997 chased life partner ideation 💒 1986-1991 college educator 🏫 year 52 retired but didn’t know it 🧐 1999-2018 chased family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 year 86 2024-2025 SELF expression and publish 🤪 year 87 2025 began RETIREMENT Tx 😉 year 88 📖 🚆🧑‍🦼‍➡️🚶 (26oct2025) 💡 — he sees himself [at the nano-blog level (NB)] an ELDER CONSULTANT (EC) with one student, ie, himself … … … He is a philosopher of individual lives — his own equal in quality to all functional others — his challenge is to express that ideation (via a sliver of a ‘we’whole-hour) to anybody interested [currently counted with just the index finger and by too many with just the ring finger] — He is ‘EC’ only AS HE HAS ANY FUNCTIONAL LIFETIME REMAINING — he works at maximizing his longevity via cooperation with health-care-industry and minimizing other distractions, inclusive of car-living — he is reclusive as a STUDENT-IN-STUDY but not a recluse.

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to Milwaukee

1937 ? — Connie bolted from Marshfield live-in domestic work (indentured since grade five), to Milwaukee to mother’s-side south-Milwaukee relatives and perhaps domestic work for an east-side Milwaukee dentist.

Armand

1937? 1938? 1939? 1940? — Armand Otto south-Milwaukee-tavern-owner hung himself (cancer?).

sailor stand-up

sailor stand-up
1941 - THIS KID, today, still works his lifetime as a JOB! “Huh ?“ 🙄 ? RETIRED ? Contrarily, HarvOtto.com exists as a work of SELF study evidential narration challenge. Likely, it is a psychiatric COMPLEXITY CHALLENGE to understand SELF (effectualness navigation required). SELF IDEATION begins in the brain, develops in mind, via tasks chosen by a faceted self, 😉 ie, I-self, Me-self, We-self. 🤪 BE HAPPY with your own brain-mind-self as a JOB-mess 🤪. (Background pic represents Harv’s inherent tradition of being-aside, ie, ALONE.) His SELF study began in the 1970s as THEORY W.

beard in-car

beard in-car
2025 — looking ‘into’ his ‘magic-window’ iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard connected to “in-car home” internet, Harv jokingly laughs, (when he can get his keys LIT all-the-time🤥) — Harv laughs at his EXTERIOR SELF while at his daily-picnic-in-the-county-park [he is now TRESPASSED there 😕] — HARV is forever curious of his INNER SELF related to world-wariness via his curated “FREE” CHOICES. Local-yokel modernity-reality — if Harv does not behave he takes responsibility for his own chosen life-way — continually adjusting as he has perceived being trespassed from many places by many individuals — Harv respects them all, although he moves on his life-time path-way.

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Before Harv’s INNER SELF study seriously took over his whole-hour lifetime interest in 2025. Harv had his “chasing-family’ lifetime-phase 1999-2018 — well worth the time spent, but that chase was not the crux for KNOWING HIS SELF (his two preliminary SELF-keyword's are ALONE and TWEAK — perhaps MINIMALISM is another). A fairly comfortable book title has snuck out — NOT to be available soon in book stores near you.

2021 December 05 bucket #2 for week 50 — fans/battery replaced, work misfire, Blog book parts, pantry restructured

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Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), immune rest-gym-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806, avoid overreach, use drip pad and spat clean routine, pill sort, COA lunches, two dumps daily, 

50 - 8” gym, f.yogurt celebration slippage, finished renal diet spreadsheet, 11“gym, Frosty celebration slippage, 7”rip,

50 - Dec captain’s health discussion no new  encouragement, added can peas fiber/protein, cookies slippage, 12”gym,

50 - barley/peas/tuna for fiber/protein, Frosty slippage, 7up shortage, 7”, grapes/cheese, 13 hr sleep then nap, 6” gym,

50 - Frosty crate celebration, new cabin battery disassembled pantry then reassembled another Frosty, 

50 - new lost pillow, 7”gym, sorted pills standing = exhausted to naps/slippage, 9”park, 

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Niceties routine:  smile, sweet dreams, study www- slides- papers-/awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN), smerconish.com, self/RIM declutter, melodic, J-L-F v s-h-f choice, family calls challenge, emotions stable, intellect active, Air4 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms), COA lunches, 

50 - Erin house sit T 10-1pm, cash back big card, Gary AutoZone chatted lifetime experience at 65, laundry including sweats,

50 - nix daylight light to Goodwill with eye goggles, emotionally adjusted to $90/hour+parts gouge, shower,

50 - published “Fulfillment Of Growth” Blog page aimed at book, eggs to Erin called to cancel COA candies slippage, 

50 - Thursday house sit eggs to Erin, water refills at gym habit, cleaned up barley spill added tie to restrain cooker,

50 - $90 went $0 unnecessarily unable to negotiate cooperatively plus bob’s $20 parts profits unnecessarily refunded INSANE,

50 - I committed pay bob thru Erin via Mexican food on me=spent 45 min on phone=maybe next week, followup at home sit,

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As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) routine:  spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s expectancy, minimalism, 

50 - AutoZone free engine light check, left of driver #4 misfires bought plug as probable fix coil analysis would involve switching,

50 - gleaned big tools bin, gleaned small tools bin, loop to pills catch, electrical grease grounded ceiling light, bob pay in full,

50 - gleaned away one shoebox, shimmed front passenger table leveled, provided two S-hooks, cleaned shake spill clutter, 

50 - gas advertises injector cleaner added to remaining Sea Foam blend, Peugeot pliers may be lost, chose another Sea Foam,

50 - gleaned three tool boxes, small debits review living within annuity, Erin hints at freon top off, replaced lost pillow, 

50 - anchor pantry shelf, coat door fan storage, ‘milk’ crate stabilized pantry, shifted pantry storage added shim, 

50 - air runs idles rough air on idles better after minutes idle misses? knocks under power air off idles rough again, 

50 - air ‘knock’ similar to overfill experience years ago but that went away with non fouled plugs? work #4 misfire analysis,

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