Circle of One

Fell asleep at 4:30 am, I don’t know why I do this to myself.

Self-induced chronic Sleep deprivation (-3 hours)

Failure to plan personal meals

Failure to exercise

Failure to seek medical assistance

Tendency to ignore my personal health

Failure to focus on personal grooming

Failure to listen to my music

Failure to take some quiet time during the day

Note to self:  Stop damaging yourself and get some “actual” deep sleep every night.

60mg today, running low.  Time for a prescription refill.

On the upside, I have no knee pains and can run up stairs again.

It’s NOT you, it’s me

I’ve decided to go with single player Horizon Zero Dawn™ over the co-op title Ghost Recon® Wildlands.

Despite experiencing absolutely no playing time, the simple fact is that I don’t have enough dedicated time to run with a squad.

Sometimes, running solo is the best and most enjoyable option.

I’m always in awe of the “10-hours a day” gamers who have the actual talent and resources to push a game to its limits.

Got an alert today that made me pay attention.

End-user exploitation: £100 to set up a stand-alone printer….WTF

I have no choice but to step in.

Phase One > ISO27001 Audit

Phase Two > Small Office LAN re-design

Phase Three > Reconfigure and documentation

Phase Four > maintenance and alerts

Probably take me 2-5 hours to sort it all out.

Home Office owners are easy targets

Female Small Office Home Office (SoHo) users are easy targets for ethically blind IT Pros as well as miscreants.

Why? Typically the SoHo user is

  1. Seriously busy with other stuff
  2. Less technical
  3. Overly trusting of any bloke that speaks tech
  4. Just wants “stuff” to work
  5. Not interested in the detail

….well they messed with the wrong CISSP today.

FALLBACK

Myasthenia Gravis strategy means have an early-warning system

16:25: It kinda happened mid-sentence, a sudden surge of weakness behind the right eye socket rendering me temporarily stunned and unable to think and function.

The rest of my body is fine but looks on unable to help.

Myasthenia can be a Son of a Bitch for timing and for me, it often hits during times of intense personal emotion pressure from those close to me.

Standard Operating Procedure kicks in and I head to the nearest bed to administer nature’s cure….PURE SLEEP.

21:12: Things are back to “normal” and I’m feeling strong and alert. Checking digital messages to see what happened while I was missing in action.

60mg of Pyridostigmine sit on my desk, I haven’t taken any today.

I should hit the gym but think I’ll just finish up in the office, leave around 11 pm and then hit the PS4 till 2 or 3 am.

Love is not Free

Today Ghost Recon® Wildlands Open Beta goes Live to the general public for 120 hours.

It’s a standard strategic move to grow the community before the game goes on sale and for the most part an excellent experience for all types of players.

You can tame her but careful, she bites

Open Beta’s is a boost of Oxytocin or a School Boy Crush 10 times the normal levels.

The downer comes pretty fast as you realise you haven’t got the resources to play the game for any extended period of time.

No dedicated time

No enough money to buy the game in the first place

….and no one to play with.

It sucks and you wonder,  why play the Beta in the first place?

Well, like Love, better to have a neurotransmitter dopamine rush for a short time than nothing at all.

Dopamine is commonly associated with the ‘pleasure system’ of the brain

 

Stop Look Listen (To Your Heart)

One of the things that make BioShock such a great title is the sound design.

As you wonder through the first level you can hear Fitzgerald’s God Bless the Child in the background and can easily eavesdrop on the conversations of your enemies around every corner.

Destination this summer – Daytona Beach

Pretty early on, you are faced with critical moral decisions – rescue or kill.

It’s at this point you really have to get your head straight.

Got a bit stressed out last night. Back to usual dosage 60mg today.

 

Diana and Marvin sang it well in 1971

You’re alone all the time
Does it ever puzzle you, have you asked why
You seem to fall in Love and out again
Do you ever really Love or just Pretend
Why fool yourself

Don’t be afraid to help yourself
It’s never too late, too late to

Stop, Look
Listen to your heart, hear what it’s saying