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“The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in the American idiom, ‘right now.’ ” – Arnold Toynbee<\/a> <\/p>\n A long time ago I read how Arnold Toynbee worked when writing his history of the world.\u00a0 He did the research in the morning and early afternoon, then wrote into the evening.\u00a0 You’d have to be pretty organized to have the right material handy, but it does cut down on short term memory loss.<\/p>\n Forgot to mention here that I had a Richard Nixon dream last night.\u00a0 I spent several dream hours chasing, catching, securing and locking away old Tricky Dick.\u00a0 Have no idea what that was about, but it did have\u00a0a recurring theme:\u00a0 I’m in a hotel, it’s check out time and I’m not gonna make it.\u00a0 Have no idea what that’s about either.\u00a0 It did occur to me that Nixon has entered the national bank of archetypes.\u00a0 He’s the all purpose bad guy, the psychopath who made it to the Big House.\u00a0 It felt good defeating him.\u00a0 Maybe that was the point.<\/p>\n Off to the MIA today to get my photo taken for a new security badge.\u00a0 I need to do this since the last time I had one was in 2001, when I still had hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 25\u00a0 70%\u00a0 19%\u00a0 omph SWS bar29.89 steady\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Winter Moon “The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in the American idiom, ‘right now.’ ” – Arnold Toynbee A long time ago I read how Arnold Toynbee worked when writing his … Continue reading A Richard Nixon Dream<\/span>