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Quote from chief: “snot - oozing sticky yellowy/browny stuff emanating from a runny nose. yep, perfectly appropriate for Datto's thread. ” You guys aren't gonna shine green lasers on me, right? That just brings out my disco endzone dance. Where's my paint can? appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/7990/ Datto

Heading back to Tip 99: Your Pies Of Life in Datto's Tips v2.0. The Pies Of Life framework allows a person to figure out what they want (in order to Live Fully as a component of being happy) by dealing with smaller, more manageable chunks of life rather than the entirety. It's a much better way of targeting goals and describing what it is you want. The Pies Slices are these: * Financial * Family * Social * Spiritual * Physical * Career * Community * Other The Pie Slices are not freestanding enti…

Quote from jimmyjam: “I read that as guitar snot guns ” Ha, I read it that way too. Meat -- thanks for the info. Datto

Quote from TrafficJam: “I find this overly simplistic, naive, and self-centered. ” I'm not denying my approach may appear self-centered. For a prospective AT thru-hiker after completing an AT thru-hike, it should be. The perspective I present is to make sure you and yours are covered first (your absolute primary responsibility), then think of altruism. Otherwise you can very easily become the pawn of those who manipulate others for personal gain and profit. By the way, I've been Volunteer Of The…

Quote from TrafficJam: “Datto, maybe I misunderstand(?) but it sounds like you assume people have control over what happens to them and that people can choose to only do those things that make them happy. ” That's okay -- we can disagree. Prospective AT thru-hikers should get multiple opinions, judge/assess for themself -- keep what makes sense, discard what doesn't. That's one of the grand advantages of using the Internet. In Datto's Tips v2.0 I say this near the very beginning of the document …

Speaking of that NC/TN line the Trail follows, I'd almost gotten myself stuck out on the ledge just off the side of Charlies Bunion (just south of the NC/TN ridgeline as I remember). Got vertigo bigtime at Charlies Bunion. A heck of a drop-off there at the end of that sidetrail going out to the Bunion -- many hundreds of feet. A past AT thru-hiker had told me about the dropoff so on my own AT thru-hike, I went out to see it. Was very happy to have pulled myself together out of the vertigo, climb…

Quote from Datto: “During my AT thru-hike I did my endzone dance on the Trail whenever I crossed the border into a new state. ” At one of the state lines during my AT thru-hike (can't remember which right now) there were a group of hikers gathered on the Trail at the state line and a Soul Train gauntlet was formed. Even the introverts got involved thinking they could at least outdo me. We sure did know how to have a good time. Datto

Quote from Datto: “emergency construction of five separated chicken coops (for the Crips, Bloods, Mansons, Hamiltons and Buttercups). ” During my AT thru-hike I did my endzone dance on the Trail whenever I crossed the border into a new state. Since the chickens were behaving overnight I showed the chickens how to do a proper endzone dance. This has completely messed up the Mansons. Click the YouTube icon in the lower status bar: youtube.com/watch?v=6h-dkradB6A Datto

The rate of change in Society is accelerating and to their credit (or dismay) most individuals are unable or unwilling to keep up with that rapid pace. Look no further than current events to see how people are digging in heels against the accelerating rate of change that seemingly only benefits a few. This is one of the reasons why the concepts described in Tip 98: Happiness and Tip 99: Your Pies Of Life within Datto's Tips v2.0 are so important. Together those two tips provide a framework to al…

Quote from chief: “wow, 3 rapid-fire responses! Settle down Datto, you'll hurt yourself. ” That was my Cubs impersonation. There was one more watermelon left from the south field so the dog and I had Pam running down the beach. I don't know if you guys know this but those things are hard to hold onto if you're not palming them (probably illegal in these parts). The dog was gnawing it around in a circle, then the woman here came in from breaking up a gang war going on in one of the chicken coops.…

The premise of Datto's Tips v2.0 is based upon the last few tips in the listing -- including the idea that each individual person's purpose on this earth is to be happy. Nothing else. The components of happiness are three: a) Have fun. b) Live fully. c) Peace. Getting two of those components to come together at the same time is a challenge. Getting all three happening concurrently is bliss. Quite a number of people have found completing an AT thru-hike is one of the very few things in life concu…

SAT question 46: Clearwater is to Everyone as Nome is to [blank]? a) Chief b) Pamela Anderson c) Heidi d) The new phonebook is here! Datto

Chief -- how about you read the PDF to which this thread is about. Then get a midnight suntan to have yourself looking alive again. Datto

Quote from chief: “so a thread to help wannabe hikers is really a thread about you. what a surprise! ” Whoops! Executive summary for Chief and Drybones: My buddy Tony and I fell asleep in Wisconsin. Then Wyoming boobs arrived. Datto

Expanding on Tip 79: People Just Graduating From College. There will be no better time in your entire life to take a grand adventure. The Nickel Bar. Near the end of our college-boy careers my buddy Tony and I had decided to hitchhike to the furthest place away from Muncie, IN (our college-boy town) while staying within the lower 48 states.My buddy Tony had deftly determined, with an engineering scale and a bunch of acute measurements on a map retrieved from his acne-mobile glove compartment, th…

For prospective 2017 northbound AT thru-hikers following along here (and reading Tip 63: AT thru-hiking and the Business Cycle of Datto's Tips v2.0), the 4-week moving average of initial jobless claims this morning (11/17/2016) was 253,500 and the one-week delayed number for initial jobless claims was 235,000. The 4-week moving average smooths out the peaks and valleys. Both of these are exceptionally good numbers for the overall economy in America, reflected mostly from the economic situation p…

Quote from Datto: “and rotating out of those areas that are known to be unprofitable in the game's 4th quarter (most types of bonds for instance). ” Guy was probably carrying bonds to the hiking trail as firestarter: foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/15…ator-on-hiking-trail.html Datto

Executive summary for Drybones: Raise hemlines, not rates. Datto

Quote from WanderingStovie: “So financials broke through the upper Bollinger band and trend line. Do they like rising interest rates in general, and a Fed rate hike? ” Rising bank stocks prices mean there's an expectation of rising interest rates (banks make much more money when interest rates are rising). However, rising interest rates/rising bank stock prices can mean the business cycle (recession to growth cycle back to recession period) is in the 4th quarter of the game. Note the 4th quarter…

appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/7959/ Quote from Datto: “As I've mentioned in Tip 63 of Datto's Tips v2.0, you don't want to get yourself in the position of thru-hiking the AT in 2017 and then returning from the AT to find the country has gone into an economic recession. ” For those of you who are prospective 2017 AT thru-hikers who have read Tip 63 of Datto's Tips v2.0 -- the upper circle in this attachment is the most haunting. Again, no one will know where this is going for mont…