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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.”πŸ˜ͺ 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 πŸ’’ 1986-1991 college educator 🏫 year 52 retired but didn’t know it 🧐 1999-2018 chased family πŸ§‘‍πŸ§‘‍πŸ§’‍πŸ§’ year 86 2024-2025 SELF expression and publish πŸ€ͺ year 87 2025 began RETIREMENT Tx πŸ˜‰ year 88 πŸ“– πŸš†πŸ§‘‍🦼‍➡️🚢 (26oct2025) πŸ’‘ — 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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See each THIS WEEK for Harv’s curate clips of WE-SELF news headlines with links to original source — AP CNN C-SPAN video etc. You can choose to explore this website HarvOtto.com using the above grid, left to right by row. Or, skip around — your click choice. “Beware,” construction is everywhere — a mess to some — but to the author it’s just stuff to edit and rewrite — FOREVER ❗️ An “*” in any grid box title indicates a separate micro blog (with different header, etc).

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 ?“ πŸ™„ ? 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, πŸ˜‰ ie, I-self, Me-self, We-self. πŸ€ͺ BE HAPPY with your own brain-mind-self as a JOB-mess πŸ€ͺ. (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-timeπŸ€₯) — Harv laughs at his EXTERIOR SELF while at his daily-picnic-in-the-county-park [he is now TRESPASSED there πŸ˜•] — 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.

self key words

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.

GOAL — free.calendar, car.living, easy.flow zFLO

🧐 website front page CRUX πŸ§
express the reasons that underlay human choices — his choices and others — especially the exercise of HIS choice updated 2025oct22
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Harv’s June 2025 blog updates (v.9/2025) — they witness another actualization event of Harv’s lifetime, ie., seeing a 

(1) REAL RETIREMENT  life view 
(now 35y in “progress”) [“THIS LIFETIME”]

added to 

(2) the DEGREES’ life view  
PhD the best he could do and publish CMA  MBA  BSME  HIGH SCHOOL creativity artist job offer  ELEMENTARY  life-long learning

and 

(3) the JOBS’ life view  
EMERSON (peer of Frederic Taylor, father of scientific management)  
CONSULTANT Conrail+  VICE.PRESIDENT  MFG.DIRECTOR  CONTROLLER   MANUFACTURING ENGINEER ;

perhaps now he can retire from all 
of the three or more life view projections, 
specifically — 
eight-week whole blood donations ?
next news cycle ? 
daily blog updates ? 
next illness / breakdown ? 
next travel
next hobby ? 
next partner ? 
next residence ? 
next degree
next career
next job
next publication ? 
next choice what? whence? why? when? who? 
write something ? “W” theory anyone ? 
why do men die early ?  One lady responded matter-of-factly to Harv without hesitation, “Well, that’s the way it should be,” she related nonchalantly [having an air of easy unconcern or indifference(MW)]
In hindsight, Harv smiles and thinks, “Aah.”  [to exclaim in amazement, joy, or surprise(MW)]

He has long speculated about the reasons that underlay human choices — his choices and others — especially the exercise of HIS choice. Some choices have been given to him as tradition, much has come from defaulted action, and a few choices exercised on HIS own reasoning.

His daily use of Blogger, as his writing tool, continues to speculate about the human self and its choices within his invented context of ‘self expressed fulfillment’ and Theory W.  He points his blog’s writ into the future — perhaps a book of some sort.  The Book Flecks web site front page grid box link collects the future-oriented fragments.

Today’s Book Title — 

https://whollyspirittome.blogspot.com/2024/06/tome-table-of-contents-publication-buds.html

R U free ? 
am I lost ?
case study surrounding reasoned choice(s).
Why, what, who, where, when, wise, worldwide, we, wonder, wander, watch, wait, won-now (win the now and just be), … —> theory W in general.




  Yesterday’s Book Title — 2025aug29F                                       “   W
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πŸ€₯ an 87y tinkered ‘perversion unforgiven.


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Yesterday’s Book Title — pre 2025aug06W 

EXPANDing the SELF — 

— a tinkered 87y life flow.”

cover material

I-self p.x

ME-self p.y

WE-self p.z

SELF-SPECIFICITY 

FOR ROUST vs ROOST


previously:  GOAL 2029

 LIFE GOAL SUM = Harv’s statistical death was projected in four years at y91 [now 2025jun24 it’s y99 (https://media.nmfn.com/tnetwork/lifespan/index.html#13) that CHALLENGES HARV’S PLANNING further into the future] ; his PLAN — WAS/IS quality car-living ‘forever’ ; TO promptly confront/ameliorate elder-dependency ; TO pursue OPQ (OPTIMUM PATH QUALITY) life tasks (Theory W) for his lifetime planning ; [OPQ turns CPM (Critical Path Method) of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) from project engineering “quickerness” to lifetime “quality longevity.”].

GOAL 2029 is CONTINUE CAR-LIVING ‘FOREVER’ thus COMPENSATE OLD AGE DEBILITATION with USE OF OPTIMUM PATH QUALITY (OPQ of Theory W) ______________________________________ (2025 hours) =17+=43=32=31=31=50=26= 31 22 23 35 =18= 39 24 32 28 34 30 30 45 44 43 46 50 58 34 (2024=>) 46 58 =14=00=00= 53 69 60 53 58 69 70  78 78 70 69 79 74 39=29 48 77 52 81 66 74LIFE.BIGGIES_ =SADcycle=EYE=PATCH= _________ =WEAKcycle= ___________________________ _________ =seriousFRAILTY= ___________website_WRIT_Disney_World_QUALITY _(via_train) 65 63 31=43=28=42 60 45 59 43 58 63 62 53 42 47 30 26 20 16 22 09 27 00=06 (2023=>) 23 13 _ _w48 (2022=>)w52depression _________________________________________________________ =2023“COA_old_people”and_personal_wifi_connection~QUALITY= iPadPro= ____________________________________________________ _______________________ _______________________ =2022 BROKEN-FOOT boot first half= ____ fifth PHYSICAL FALL avoided via age awareness ____________________________________________________ ___________________ __________ (2021)COA (2018)Disney World walker annual pass PHYSICAL REJUVENATION (2017)daughter Susan (2015,2005,2000)son Chris (1999)daughter Susan (1998)home-share PaulineKS MartinKS (1997-1984)singles’ marketplace EdwinKS SueKS JeanMO Opark rough MinetteDE adult studentWV Nanette, Nancy, Karen (1984-1960)Elaine marriage Msgr.Zuern no talk tradition (1956-1938birth01dec)parochial education (1938)shotgun wedding 8 months pregnant (1937)Connie in Milwaukee with Ken’s ring. (1936-1926.post.grade5)Marshfield live-in domestic Roddis pay collected by Stanley/Stanislaus came through Ellis Island (1938)Harvey Senior’s father Armand Ott(Otto)hung (1936)tavern owner’s son grad Pulaski high graphic arts guitar theater (1933)prohibition ended

acts — publish, ride.train, Disney Lodge Wilderness,

JUNE 26w24 cardio EKG,

DECEMBER 25w52  DDS exam and fluoride,

 25w45  # Tx, eye Tx, in-car battery, 

NOW  25w44  eye vax3, PCP nix -#, blood?, bins ok,

for more of I-SELF — scroll down past eclectics

— eclectics ‘WE HEADLINES’ from this week’s media — 
eclectic deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources

A theologian and poet raised in the Church of England, Newman is best known for his writings and sermons on the development of doctrine, truth and the nature of a university. He is admired by conservatives and progressives alike, because he followed his conscience at great personal cost when he decided to convert to Catholicism in 1845.  https://apnews.com/article/vatican-newman-saint-doctor-pope-education-a180cfb0b494119bc5adc5418ef4bb18

“The filibuster forces us to find common ground in the Senate,” Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, elected in 2024, said on social media on Friday. “Power changes hands, but principles shouldn’t. I’m a firm no on eliminating it.”
Oftentimes, House Republicans weigh in on Senate strategy, urging GOP senators to follow Trump’s wishes to eliminate the filibuster. But House members — unfortunately for them — have no influence on what the Senate does. https://apnews.com/article/trump-filibuster-shutdown-congress-2b46e610460d1c2448c3c7c816454de6

That Trump would call for this is not terribly surprising; he has spent years occasionally urging Republican leaders to scrap the filibuster. Nor is it particularly likely to provide an actual offramp in the shutdown; those same GOP leaders have steadfastly declined Trump’s entreaties before and rejected this idea repeatedly in recent weeks. It’s not even clear whether enough senators would vote for such a change if GOP leaders went along with it.
So practically speaking, it’s a pointless interjection from the president.
But it does matter in one way: It’s Trump yet again inserting himself into these kinds of talks in ways that are thoroughly unhelpful to his party. And this has become a trend. 
Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in early 2018 practically pleaded with Trump to engage in the process and provide some direction. “As soon as we figure out what he is for, then I would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels,” the Kentucky Republican said at the time. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/31/politics/donald-trump-end-shutdown-filibuster

Jassy explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations and lines of business in recent years, “you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers … sometimes without realizing it, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work.”
Amazon’s headcount peaked at more than 1.6 million in 2021; it ended last year with around 1.5 million employees, according to SEC filings.  https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/30/tech/amazon-layoffs-andy-jassy-ai-culture

“Most evolutionary biologists would reject evolution as a forward process, it is more of a tinkering process that frequently takes detours and reversions,” Agrawal said in an email.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/science/tomatoes-reverse-evolution-galapagos      tweak
Nutrient Daily Requirements
 https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrition-calculators/daily-nutrient-requirements-calculator#results
Harv’s taste
Protein 81 g/day*
McD scrambled eggs
9 grain slice 3g x1
peanut butter 7g x2
protein bar 1
Fluids
(Including plain water, milk and other drinks) 2.6 L/day**  90 ounces
a gallon at 280#
Fibre 30 g/day**
Vitamin A 900 ΞΌg/day of retinol equivalents
Thiamin 1.2 mg/day*
Riboflavin 1.6 mg/day*
Niacin 16 mg/day of niacin equivalents
Vitamin B6 1.7 mg/day*
Vitamin B12 2.4 ΞΌg/day*   ΞΌg is microgram (mcmg)
water soluble CKD toxic
B12 1000 mcmg pill on hold again
Folate 400 ΞΌg/day as dietary folate equivalents
Vitamin C 45 mg/day*
Calcium 1300 mg/day*
Iodine 150 ΞΌg/day*
Iron 8 mg/day*
Magnesium 420 mg/day*
Potassium 3800 mg/day*
Harv shakes NoSalt potassium chloride on everything
Sodium 460-920 mg/day*
Zinc 14 mg/day*
Please note that Vitamin D is mostly obtained from sunlight exposure, not food.
*Recommended Dietary Intake (RDI): The average daily dietary intake level that is sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97–98 per cent) healthy individuals in a particular life stage and gender group.
**Adequate Intake (AI) - used when an RDI cannot be determined: The average daily nutrient intake level based on observed or experimentally-determined approximations or estimates of nutrient intake by a group (or groups) of apparently healthy people that are assumed to be adequate.


shutdown day 30 heats up

The recent twists and turns in the relationship offer lessons for the U.S. and China, Xi said. The U.S. and China should have positive interactions on the global stage that demonstrate their responsibility as major powers to achieve positive results for their countries and the world, he said.
“Both sides should take the long-term perspective into account, focusing on the benefits of cooperation rather than falling into a vicious cycle of mutual retaliation,” he said, according to the report.
Stressing that dialogue is better than confrontation, Xi listed a range of issues where China and the U.S. could work together, including combating illegal immigration and telecom fraud, anti-money laundering efforts, artificial intelligence and handling infectious diseases.  https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-trade-tiktok-tariffs-semiconductors-7934c7772af030ba246ba200adf7bf8b

UPS said in a regulatory filing that it has cut about 34,000 positions and closed daily operations at 93 leased and owned buildings during the first nine months of this year as part of its turnaround plan. The company said that it is still looking to identify additional buildings to close.  https://apnews.com/article/ups-amazon-layoffs-turnaround-85afc1c459883f41a2283c8394ce1eaf

China signed an expanded version of a free trade agreement Tuesday with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with Premier Li Qiang pitching expanded economic ties with Beijing as an alternative to the protectionist policies of U.S. President Donald Trump.  https://apnews.com/article/asean-china-free-trade-trump-


Amazon has over 350,000 corporate employees, according to a 2024 survey filed to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/business/amazon-corporate-layoffs      Harv got a $50mo ‘raise’.  He enters illegal alien driver’s license status.  Already trespassed fro Gemini Springs.
The Trump administration is planning another shakeup at Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid frustrations over lagging immigration arrests, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/politics/trump-ice-shakeup-border-patrol-immigration

The incident took place as Israeli strikes over Lebanon intensify amid scrambles to hold a tense ceasefire that ended Israel’s war with Hezbollah last November, and mounting pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm the powerful group.
Israel’s latest conflict with Hezbollah began the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. The militant group Hezbollah, largely based in southern Lebanon, began firing rockets into Israel in support of Hamas and the Palestinians.  https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-unifil-drone-3352c555e3c93b60619b4eada8e20028    
Who does Harv ‘war’ against ?  Kim ousted with un-no-talk from McD crony chat at Harv’s table.

Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.
A doomsday outlook has led the climate community to focus too much on near-term goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause warming, diverting resources from the most effective things that can be done to improve life in a warming world, Gates said. In a memo released Tuesday, Gates said the world’s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.
If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”  https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007      Does Harv have suffering or opportunity — PCP overall medical or health advice ?

Maine’s test scores on a national standardized test have taken a staggering tumble since the 2000s, when Maine was hailed as one of the higher-performing states in the country.
Now Maine fourth graders rank in the bottom 15 states on standardized test performance in math and reading, and eighth graders have fallen to at or below average performance.
A Maine Monitor analysis of 20 years of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card — showed that low-income students and those with disabilities have seen the biggest losses in their test results since performance peaked in the 2000s.
But Maine leaders have struggled to react with a comprehensive effort to improve results due to a lack of consensus over what issues to address, as well as hesitancy to trust or use the test scores as a way to measure how Maine students are performing.  https://apnews.com/article/maine-susan-collins-janet-mills-schools-mathematics-5600dc5b79fb70cc9ceff7223757f4b1     Harv’s comprehensive HarvOtto.com effort.

The C919 has 48 major suppliers from the U.S. -- including GE, Honeywell and Collins -- 26 from Europe and 14 from China, according to analysts at the Bank of America. Trump threatened to impose new export controls on “critical” software to China after Beijing imposed stricter export controls on rare earths.  https://apnews.com/article/china-us-aircraft-trade-comac-8eaf0e9f235b989cd8100152bd5c3f66

The United Nations chief delivered a strong defense of science and meteorology on Wednesday, praising the U.N. weather agency for helping save lives by keeping watch for climate disasters around the world.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to the World Meteorological Organization as science faces an assault in the United States: President Donald Trump’s administration has led an anti-science push, and Trump has called climate change “ a con job.”
A longtime advocate for the fight against global warming, Guterres spoke at a special WMO meeting aimed to promote early-warning systems that help countries rich and poor brace for floods, storms, forest fires and heat waves.  https://apnews.com/article/guterres-climate-trump-wmo-meteorology-science-f729579dcae6a1b577eb5831310baf09

    Ford said. “My intention was to inform the American people this is serious. And it is going to cost jobs if we don’t get a fair-trade deal with your closest friend and ally.”
Ford said Republicans are too afraid to speak up against Trump.
“They are too scared of President Trump. When was the last a time a Republican governor was scared of a Republican president? They are scared of ramifications which is really sad,” Ford said.
Trump said he’s very happy with the deal he has now with Canada, saying “We’re going to let it ride.”
Trump said the ad misrepresented the position of Reagan, a two-term president and a beloved figure in the Republican Party. But Reagan was wary of tariffs and used much of the 1987 address featured in Ontario’s ad spelling out the case against tariffs.
Most goods are exempted from tariffs by the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement. That trade agreement is slated for review. Trump negotiated the deal in his first term but has since soured on it.  https://apnews.com/article/canada-trump-tariffs-ontario-ford-reagan-ad-b8da66e059a718927ae36ef05da4e987

“We pool from international graduates, and if we’re going to take away the H-1Bs from that, it’s going to shrink our pool of choices,” said Lundry, who selects 16 internal medicine residents a year for St. Luke’s.
More than 64% of international medical graduates were practicing in medically underserved areas or health professional shortage areas, with more than 45% practicing in rural areas, according to a 2021 study published by the National Institutes of Health.
And the United States needs an additional 13,075 physicians just to fill shortages, according to a 2024 report from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The HRSA forecasts that by 2037, the US will be short of 87,150 full-time equivalent (FTE) primary care physicians.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/business/h1b-visa-fee-rural-hospitals

“Friends, I can’t sugar coat any of this. These are dark days” Biden said. He then predicted the country would “find our true compass again” and “emerge as we always have — stronger, wiser and more resilient, more just, so long as we keep the faith.”    No reference to Jeffries.
Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness using what is known as a Gleason score. The scores range from 6 to 10, with 8, 9 and 10 prostate cancers behaving more aggressively. Biden’s office said his score was 9.  

day 28

shutdown day 24

The New York City mayoral election’s political typology is very 2026. It features Andrew Cuomo, 67, a scandalized former governor and established center-left Democrat; Zohran Mamdani, 34, an avowed democratic-socialist state Assembly member; and Curtis Sliwa, 71, the activist and Guardian Angels founder who has focused almost exclusively on urban crime since 1979.
Mamdani, who leads in polls, has rocketed to fame. His young age and his criticism of Israel’s war effort in Gaza have drawn attention. Mamdani has declined to condemn the controversial phrase “globalize the intifada” when asked (though he has said he will not use it, himself). The conservative National Review has called him a “public menace” for it.
Mamdani’s democratic socialism, however, is the main point of fascination. Plans for free buses, frozen rent in rent-stabilized apartments, and city-run grocery stores are viewed by many as implausible. Writing in the conservative City Journal, Manhattan Institute fellow Ken Girardin warns: “A review of [Mamdani’s] statements fails to reveal any sort of limiting principle with respect to private property or the extent to which Mamdani thinks the economy should be market-driven, if at all.” Not everyone is afraid. At Politico Magazine, Brookings Turkey Project Director Asli Aydintasbas writes that publicly funded grocery stores seemed to work in Istanbul, recounting a visit to one. The store was available only to families with low-enough incomes, and its shelves were stocked mostly with items from “cheaper brands sourced from small manufacturers that I had never heard of—companies happy to donate goods to the city stores because they could write them off their taxes.” In that neighborhood, at least, the store was popular.
Moreover, Aydintasbas points out that Trump is conducting his own experiments with statist economic management, e.g. directing the sale of TikTok and taking a government stake in Intel. Politically, “[m]aybe the answer to right-wing populism isn’t cautious centrism, but a more daring form of left-wing populism,” Aydintasbas suggests. “Mamdani’s municipal populism may or may not work in New York. But the idea behind it is hardly fringe.”
Still, Mamdani is sparking both hope and fear, as the longtime national political columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in a New York Times guest essay. His “charm and intelligence” are helping him win, for now, the argument over whether his policies would bring improvement or devastation. And yet, Dionne writes: “For history buffs, Mr. Mamdani has done the service of rekindling an interest in a largely forgotten American tradition, the ‘sewer socialists’ who ran a significant list of cities in the last century.” They were mostly concerned with “repairing the grubbiest of urban amenities because doing so underscored their aim of running corruption-free governments that did whatever they could to improve the lives of working-class people in their jurisdictions,” Dionne notes. They enjoyed a run of success: “The most durable among them was Daniel Hoan, the socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1916 to 1940. You don’t get re-elected that often by being a failure.”  https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1761481894155c9e7c2674016/raw?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cnn_Fareed%27s+Global+Briefing%2C+Oct.+25%2C+2025&bt_ee=xy3RYQejsieIdwBANbVKNPpwCQ%2F0jelzSWtFvxC47ofRIhFnAKuyTmO0MB40LCgz&bt_ts=1761481894158     Milwaukee politics https://www.mpl.org/local_history/milwaukeessocialisthistory.php#:~:text=Milwaukee's%20socialist%20history%20began%20in%20the%20early,1973%20thru%20the%20mid%20to%20late%201980s.


— life.flow.productivity of 168 hours available this week 44 —

— into Saturday —
  
                           used 35 hours  to  
study/build website.life.flow expression
           used 20 hours 
 to 
 
cooperate intellectually sociality                       
 to self-interest and 
absorb snags / stumbles
vs measure of self expired via birthday celebrations, ie 86 years1
yet not be surprised at the unprepared 
worst of an unprepared death day
SELF-GROWTH    —  55 — 
hours invested
 so far this week
 — 
self-warehouse QUALITY
 

BIGGIE 
TASKS 
this week  
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curate toto
  
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230 zFlo ZfloOPQvCPM tasks** n  
::
  trespassed Kim
   
:: 
 recouped SUPER feeling
   
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 blood draw info
  
:: 
 LOST iPAD FOCUS
   
:: un NO Talk
  
:: 
 SUPER PCP MEET nutrition 
::  fired ophthalmologist follow-on
  
:: 48F47F46F45Fselk pant backward?
  
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**at the beginning and close of each week there are underlined emphasis organized toward self-fulfillment 
NON-BIGGIES 
 
::  
 00 steps   
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 coolant
  
 
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 org Photos videos  
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 COA 
  
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 zFLO gets past ‘curation’ 
::  tweak bins forever 
  
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 haircut
  
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 Vince quells rot
   
::
  
 nose runs away again
   
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  fasting blood draw
  
 
  
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  blood donation required REST after
  
  
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  1000c

NEXTs (if ever in priority order)  
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 zFlo 253 heal current maladies   
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haircut again  
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body haircut 
shower
  
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  finish wallet
 
 
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  integrate GOAL blogger with ERG Scrivener illustration
   
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WELD  
:
:  
163 B-free niceties**  
:
:  153 gracefulrich-death
 y
 
   
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  171 work blog.life.flow HarvOtto.com 168

.55*at the beginning and close of each week there are underlined emphasis organized toward self-fulfillment 

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— variance analysis (VA) notes about prior week 42 into this week 43 — 

Last VA was not finished within that week 42, perhaps mainly because of the greater volume of Harv’s curation.
Betterment focus went to a new Blogger theme — the productivity disadvantage being too many wholly hours spent away from personal sociality, ie, his real retirement Tx of ride.train and subsequently use walker more for weight loss.
Resisted cardio advice to walk more to raise pulse — there must be some more practical reason for the extra walking — weight loss being the best !

— narration — 
Narration generally means any kind of explaining or telling of something. It is usually used in reference to storytelling. Vocabulary.com
A narrative is a story, whether fictional or non-fictional, that tells a series of related events or experiences. Examples include novels, short stories, autobiographies, historical accounts, personal essays, news stories, and even everyday conversations where someone recounts a personal experience. …. Non-fictional:  Google 2025may08Rnoon

 
2025oct15U3am — this wee hour write is placedd here today after montha of anticipation of tis write tidbit.  Thus there is a thread ast Harv-acts that have led here. FINI.
At 3 a.m. I am awake in thought not yet abe to dictate. My brain has kept me awake.  My bogy still reads with one eye permitting this write.
This awake concerns the afterglow/after thought of Harv’s Saturday FaceTime hour with birthday granddaughter Amber.  Their first facetime hour probabe come year’s earlier in the Otto Apex NC bedroom of GP Harv.  Amder was setting up a gp to Amber reading session which never happened — that, Harv counta as facetime one. 
Harv desires FaceTime three and does txt with gatekeeper parent Chris..
Update of published blog draws Harv back into balance, delaying a seemingly rushed over-reaction gush to the Amber FaceTime via txt to Chris.
Four lifetime Amber-FaceTime's for Harv — christening, 5am-walks, afterglows, bedroom read session prep, 
2025oct21T9pm — stabilized self at reminded lower profile.  “SAME COIN — how to live — how to die : should be no surprise there !”
2025oct21W7am — the week before my routine 3-month PCP visit begins with a blood draw — slower and more bureaucratic than even — a temptation for frustration.  Taking my work computer keeps me focused to avoid distraction temptations.  “I hate old people and MUST avoid the distraction by ‘using the facility the way it is NOT the way it ought to be.”

The temptations to be distracted are ‘every where’ — thus Harv encourages his self to focus — thus he looks to an outline of what he wants from his next week’s visit with his 3-month PCP visit. (1) No pain.  (2) Diet / nutrition have morphed as is his usual lifestyle.  Harv’s goal is to lose weight for longevity.
Medications used exhibit EXPRESSION may be current communication priority.
10am — Book title:  Cooperate SELF — quell ur anxiety …  SELF cooperate — you’ll LIKE it❗️

nose runs zertek meds list
teeth ache ameliorated by Vince
periodic right upper arm ligament pain 4 if 6 ameliorated by pain gel
susceptible to muscle cramps
one eye blind limitation — read, night driving, 
dementia limitation — slowdowns, 
longevity — weight v comfort (calories, nutrition)

Harv was born a sewer socialist 1938 in Milwaukee www thwarts MIC
PCP visit reportl
ip gel    anribiotic del    pain gel    little cream back scratchers    
diet    McD    scrambled egg    single c.burger matrix    iced cone   NSA pop top corn    chips    c.corn     diet dr.pepper
100   400    200    200  200+  200+ total 900+
p.chloride finger dipping
lost mental focus toward feck instruction
Prostate cancers are graded for aggressiveness using what is known as a Gleason score. The scores range from 6 to 10, with 8, 9 and 10 prostate cancers behaving more aggressively. Biden’s office said his score was 9.  
PrimierEye subcontractor dor Humana
un-no-talk to whom ?  Broome,