The storm today was mostly wind for us only one inch of rain...but the pool was a mess. Thank God for my pool boy!
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as i get older i am becoming my mother
she loves kitchen gadgets
and now so do i |
Photo from Stacy...
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| the grand-children had the day off from school |
Years ago I typed seven hours, five days a week for eight years, I like typing, so for fun I typed up "The 48 Laws of Power" from the book by Robert Greene. See what you think...he cited examples from history to support these laws.
1. Never outshine the master
2. Never put too much trust in friends,
learn how to use enemies
3. Conceal your intentions
4. Always say less than necessary
5. So much depends on reputation—guard it
with your life
6. Court attentions at all cost
7. Get others to do the work for you, but
always take the credit
8. Make other people come to you-use bait
if necessary
9. Win through your actions never through
argument
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you
12. Use selective honesty and generosity
to disarm your victim
13. When asking for help, appeal to people’s
self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy
15. Crush your enemy totally
16. Use absence to increase respect and
honor
17. Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability
18. Do not build fortresses to protect
yourself-isolation is dangerous
19. Know who you’re dealing with-do not
offend the wrong person
20. Do not commit to anyone
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker-seem dumber than your mark
22. Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
23. Concentrate your forces
24. Play the perfect courtier
25. Re-create yourself
26. Keep your hands clean
27. Play on people’s need to believe to
create a cult like following
28. Enter actions with boldness
29. Plan all the way to the end
30. Make your accomplishments seem
effortless
31. Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal
32. Play to people’s fantasies
33. Discover each man’s thumbscrew
34. Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
35. Master the art of timing
36. Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring
them is the best revenge
37. Create compelling spectacles
38. Think as you like but behave like
others
39. Stir up waters to catch fish
40.Despise the free lunch
41. Avoid stepping into a great man’s
shoes
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will
scatter
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others
44.Disarm and infuriate with the mirror
effect
45. Preach the need for change, but never
reform too much at once
46. Never appear too perfect
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed
for: in victory, learn when to stop
48. Assume formlessness
Dinner...
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