82/81 degrees this morning. Actually felt cooler today than lower temperatures earlier this week. (This was at 3 a.m.) Right now (about 6:30 a.m.) it is cloudy and a light breeze makes it seem even cooler as I sit on may patio in the waning days of Summer.
The middle of a wonderful 3-day weekend, the start of September.
While I enjoy using Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter etc., I am increasingly put off and irritated by the irresponsible abuse of their attempts at adversing, forcing objectable blogs on users et., hiding the fact that much of the information is advertising. I make a deliberate effort to avoid purchasing anything that is advertised in that manner.
I don't think they fully have a grasp of the technology and go back to the TV and radio ways of attempting to intimidate the users with advertising. I greatly reduced my use of twitter when they started their abusive advertising and the Facebook started inserting their junk advertising into the "timeline', I just quit looking at it and use the messaging feature. Tumblr keeps throwing objectable "blogs" (read, heavy handed advertising) at me and it is impossible to delete it. All of them try to trick you into clicking on it so they can charge the advertisers for another click. I expect their behavior will come back to haunt them. It is about like the political candidates who trash up the neighborhood with their signs-enough if enough.
Aliene shopped for a dress for her Grandson's wedding yesterday. She is actually relatively efficient as a shopper.
Listening to "The Willpower Instinct" for a second time. This morning I listened to the part about where the expectation of pleasure is more powerful than pleasure itself for some people and the "expectation" that you will do good in the future will lead one to negative behavior today. (For example, we think there is always more time in the future, so we put off doing things we need to do "until we have time".
What really surprised me was that "doing good" (for example driving a high gas mileage/low polluting car) could lead to excessive behavior in other ways, and a small selection of "healthy food" just being available could lead to unhealthy eating. In one case, persons who thought about a previous contribution to charity gave 60% less etc.
Looking forward to catching up on some work and personal stuff today.
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