The first day of November 2012 was an active day spoiled by eating lots of the chocs from last night abortive Halloween. I am now in control of the Sleep Apnoea Treatment and completed 10 successive days of Wii Fit plus exercise, still not getting the average of 30 mins but getting closer and also hitting the 265 calorie mark so that I begin to contemplate moving up to 300 after this weekend. However given these two achievements and moving into Artman 101 activity I must reflect on getting the weight down and the reasons why I cannot sustain the effort. It requires decidedness and the same determination and I suggest reflects a lack of confidence in being able to achieve the objectives.
In addition to finishing and completing the recording process of another 45 sets also sorted most of the loose papers into a number of sub piles with the personal history mementos back in the filing cabinet but in some order for further use when I am satisfied that all the associated papers have been located and which will involved going through all the various boxes and folders and other storage containers before completing.
I have a box of papers relating to professional and managerial activities in the past which will go up tomorrow to place on the single bed in the main storage room containing the majority of the records to be processed so that I can add when I find the main items. I also discovered a quantity of materials related to my birth and care mothers which I will process tomorrow as I would be surprised if there is more material to uncover having undertaken what I thought was all the available records in the past and which fill two of a four drawer filing cabinets. There is also a miscellaneous box to go upstairs and a couple of other small piles in the room ready for process.
Since first couple of years I have had these bursts of 101 project activity but this time the intention is to continue active work unless I substantially complete the project which is likely to take a further 12 to 24 months.
I watched the greater part of the Electric Horseman which in many respects foreshadows the Horse Whisperer one of thee best of several first class films starring Robert Redford (Butch Cassidy, The Sting, The Great Gatsby, Three Days of Condor, The War We were, The Candidate, All The President’s Men, Brubacker, A Bridge too Far, Out of Africa, Havana, Indecent proposal, Up Close and Personal) He is active politically supporting environmental candidates of either USA major political parties and created the Sundance Film Festival. He has been married twice and has several children and grand children. In others words an all round likeable person on and off the screen by fellow liberals and socialists.
In the Electric Horseman he plays a former Westerner who now in his forties has sold out to a major corporation promoting their product using a thoroughbred horse. When he discovers the animal is being drugged and ill treated he determined to free the creature into the wild. Jane Fonda is a city TV journalist who travels wherever there is a good story and devises a means to engage his interests and travel with him as outlaws alleging stealing a camping trailer while giving messages to her employers where he will release the horse in some secret valley where he knows there is still a wild group.... Do they still exist I wonder? When the corporation realise that the news story is increasing sales they do a join em if they cant beat em and go to the release point with the camera crew only to find Redford is taking the girl across country, when the camper breaks down to another valley ninety miles away. Understandably the two develop a relationship although the nature of this is never fully revealed.
There is a good moment when the horse is released to the wild with the assumption that he will fit in but no happy after for the couple. Redford goes off hitching travel, broke and in search for the free and anonymous life he lived before fame although it is difficult to believe this is possible even in the USA given that Fonda is instantly recognisable regardless of the isolated store she uses to pass on a message. She is tempted to go with him but going back to file her story and then off to Paris on another assignment are lures which she is not prepared to give up. An enjoyable couple of hours but not likely to remembered.
In the evening I also watched Questions time after the News and then most of This Week and earlier Haunted where the story is getting better and more interesting although there is no one with any redeeming qualities as apart from MI6 people in the background everyone else appears ruthless operatives working for an International security firm murdering innocent people who get in the way, unscrupulous murdering and torturing business people with their separate force of torturing murderers and you common every day criminal thugs doing some of the leg work.
Local Member of Parliament older brother of Labour Leader Ed, David, was on Question time last night with Jerry Springer and the former chairman of Republican abroad, a formidable female Colleen Graffy, Kwasi Kwarteng The Tory Black MP who went to Eton and the wonderful always consistent and worth listening with attention Shami Chakarbarti the head of Liberty who posed all the right questions which needed to be asked about the future of Europe and are place in it. The case for and against Obama being given a second term was well made by members of the panel and in the audience. For some unexplained reason David Dimbleby avoided interventions from audience members. On This week Tess Jowell, Michael P and Andrew N all agreed that none fo the main parties will never put an in or out referendum to the Electorate which will add hundreds of thousands more votes to UKIP.
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