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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.”😪 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.

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2026 lifetime view of Harv — YEAR 88 still a YOUTHFUL SPIRIT 😏 1960-1997 chased life partner ideation 💒 1986-1991 college educator 🏫 year 52 retired but didn’t know it 🧐 1999-2018 chased family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 year 86 2024-2025 SELF expression and publish 🤪 year 87 2025 began RETIREMENT Tx 😉 year 88 📖 🚆🧑‍🦼‍➡️🚶 (26oct2025) 💡 — 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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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 ?“ 🙄 ? 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, 😉 ie, I-self, Me-self, We-self. 🤪 BE HAPPY with your own brain-mind-self as a JOB-mess 🤪. (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-time🤥) — Harv laughs at his EXTERIOR SELF while at his daily-picnic-in-the-county-park [he is now TRESPASSED there 😕] — 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.

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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.

2021 August 29 bucket #2 for week 36 —  gym multiples, aim dental, hand/back aches,  

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: Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), immune rest-gym-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806,

36 - U gym multiples, CHCfl is communication constrained (only callbacks into nurse desk), no emails/texts, 

36 - “business by appointment only” if more issue info is needed make another appointment, zinc drop, 

36 - gym/rest stop daily multiples, f.yogurt celebration culture U&M&T&W&R&F, 

36 - arthritis salve heals right backhand/back aches, lost credit card not quit fall #5, found it, 

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:Niceties routine:  smile, sweet dreams, study -www- -slides- -papers- /read/

:awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN), smerconish.com, washingtonpost.com/people/fareed-zakaria/

:self/RIM declutter, melodic, freeing v fear choice, family calls challenge, emotions stable, intellect active, 

:Air4 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms), 

36 - U Chris/text prayers to Susan Editor calls/texts, T Erin eggs x2, snake drops on car from tree, Greg M. Epstein book,

36 - Harvey Cox book, Humanism study, closed study of books with Blogger uplift, F house sit @ Erin, 

36 - better Blogger theme handles paragraph structure and ESC search “wow” meant a Triple,

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:As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) routine:   spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s expectancy, minimalism, 

36 - Script Editor dead end, zip tied Air4 brick to power strip, iPhone charge would not connect,

36 - Best Buy iPhone repair new glass and clean,  decided not to recycle MacBook Air3 yet, repaired shoebox adhesive,

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2021 August 22 bucket #2 for week 35 —   Greg Epstein book, Spironolactone, gave blood,

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: Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), immune rest-gym-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806,

35 - M&T Rx followup, end-time disquiet emphasize blog/tome thought, wet-bulb temp, W maxed at 12 min,

35 - W four hours rest after root beer Frosty, A easy gym, buy Greg Epstein book, wet-bulb temp, 

35 - with Rx refill smoothed Spironolactone dose one daily for PCP November review, A give blood, 

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:Niceties routine:  smile, sweet dreams, study -www- -slides- -papers- /read/

:awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN), smerconish.com, washingtonpost.com/people/fareed-zakaria/

:self/RIM declutter, melodic, freeing v fear choice, family calls challenge, emotions stable, intellect active, 

:Air4 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms),

35 - U mex with Erin/Bob, T&R Erin eggs R w/Bob Biker, F laundry,

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:As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) routine:   spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s expectancy, minimalism, 

35 - M ordered xtra Air4

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2021 August 15 bucket #2 for week 34 —  diet reset, mental-fall#2, flu shot, 

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: Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), immune rest-gym-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806,

34 - W F 30 min A1c cardio, Luisa Aug health review no help on used-up blood draw, she put BP stats into her notes, 

34 - no CHC emails because there would be too many, T Harv went to Jueng one month early mental-fall#2,  

34 - began again no-salt-added canned veg Velveeta cheese chunks requiring no refrigeration albacore tuna nuts,  

34 - general diet review using current articles and hopefully article notes, Activia yogurt vomit smell burp, 

34 - protein shake quells hunger, flu shot, foot pain goes away, 

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:Niceties routine:  smile, sweet dreams, study -www- -slides- -papers- /read/

:awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN), smerconish.com, washingtonpost.com/people/fareed-zakaria/

:self/RIM declutter, melodic, freeing v fear choice, family calls challenge, emotions stable, intellect active, 

:Air4 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms),

34 - restart earbuds for CNN at gym, six eggs at Erin discussing her career, 

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:As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) routine:   spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s expectancy, minimalism, 

34 - began notes on keyboarding mysteries, 


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2021 August 08 bucket #2 for week 33 —  diet reset, normalize BP, 

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: Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), immune rest-gym-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806,

33 - aim to normalize BP, W lower sodium no caffeine soda, more fiber, U fudge tracks celebrate binge forgot why,

33 - U frozen cherries, M 4am vomit both ends, T napped all day cancelled eggs w Erin frozen cherries unfinished, 

33 - foot pain from bark stab back all week after many weeks, 

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:Niceties routine:  smile, sweet dreams, study -www- -slides- -papers- /read/

:awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN), smerconish.com, washingtonpost.com/people/fareed-zakaria/

:self/RIM declutter, melodic, freeing v fear choice, family calls challenge, emotions stable, intellect active, 

:Air4 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms),

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:As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) routine:   spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s expectancy, minimalism, 

33 - update 11.5.2


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2021 August 01 bucket #2 for week 32 —   PCP hip shot, Happiness write, w/o DDS no pain, BP monitor, 

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: Health routine:  awareness (wholesomeness), gym cardio, immune rest-gym-diet, LOFt, wellness a1767 a1806,

32 - Wam reset Spironolactone w/half Metoprolol, W one McD ocean fish double (400c), W began 6-day MethylPredNisOlone,

32 - W 30 min. cardio, W optimistically 1500c, bought waist belt and resistance bands, Wpm. reset Olmesartan by half,

32 - stiff posture avoids sacroiliac pain, bought fruit, PCP ignored no-fast lab report, cut cardio in half but did two days, 

32 - U wrote argument for Spironolactone-return by PCP, got two big issues solved by PCP w/proper prep/attitude,

32 - PCP claims that Jodi called as appointment reminder BUT three other people do that! maybe she read notes in advance,

32 - PCP praise for improvement in lab results i.e. A1c 5.9 in 5.7 - 6.4 pre-diabetes due to gym/diet actions no fast impact,

32 - W caffeine coffee all-nighter, big chunk of tooth filling lost, W  for sacroiliac took two acetaminophen other NOT,

32 - W bought yet another pill splitter, A1c drop may be due to non-fast blood draw, R slept 6 h many GERD pills, 

32 - hacked new pills initial routine with new Rx, R unearthed BP monitor on charger but instructions are lost yet, 

32 - bought belt and bands for gym, F sorted renewed Rx pills for cold turkey retro routine back to beginning 2021, 

32 - F decided Sonny’s sweet potato, R gym 2 stretch sets, R gym cardio settles at drawback to 5.3 load 40 rpm 30 min,

32 - F cuff operational diastolic 79R 30 min cardio 2 stretch sets pulse <50 cut Met. to 25mg night only forgot gym mask, 

32 - F many coffees one caffeine, skipped Met. at night, trainer Nick off for belt/bands instruction,

32 - on wait list for HBP virtual visit Signify, also kidney followup, 

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:Niceties routine: smile, sweet dreams, scan www-slides-papers/read/awareness (BBC NPR NYT WaPo CNN), 

:smerconish.com, washingtonpost.com/people/fareed-zakaria/

:self/RIM declutter, melodic, freeing v fear choice, family calls challenge, emotions stable, intellect active, 

Air4 surf/write/stream (connects to television of youth), sound/light shows (storms),

32 - U breakup breakfast for Erin/Bob, W happiness report for Blog, body trim shower for PCP, F wrote Blog,

32 - R dinner Erin offer of home share, data.www seems ok, kicked out of Wawa no compromise assume homeless,

32 - loosed life restrictions into 90s RIM: +sodium +caffeine +butter  +posture +alcohol +car idle +write +fruit, 

32 - clear-weeks ahead for write, lost Blog last week with pall of sadness tears on F last, W all-niter for write,

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:As-set Residence In Motion routine:   spiff, OSs, self/RIM LOFt, future RIM in 90s if living, minimalism, 

32 - A painted grill, procrastination vacuum, buy new AutoZone battery for electrical ease, clean windows, glean,

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