Tag: Unforgiving

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The school run is a killer

9th March 2021 prediction

Infection rates rise sharply as schools re-open spreading the dreadful virus to all.  Thankfully, the rise is an acceptable infection rate, and the death rate is below 100 per day which is pretty good for a population of 69+ million people.

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Lifestyles of the Bored and Restless

The Lock-down lifestyle is a thing that just creeps up on you…the negatives can be overwhelming, but scraps of good stuff can emerge from your captivity.

Here’s my Top-10 Lockdown issue list

  1. Lack of real exercise or movement
    • Unless you are the healthy type or just have a nice home with a great garden or field then it’s natural to just meander from room to room with no real purpose.
  2. Lack of routine
    • This lack of purpose is just a headshrinker…. Why I am here? What is my purpose?
  3. Lack of real face-to-face social connection
    • So, what if you have 500+ LinkedIn. Body language makes up over 50% of our comms.
  4. Perpetual Snacking
    • I’m a grazer and can’t help but wonder in the kitchen every hour or so for a snack. Even when I’m not hungry
  5. Zoomed Out – Screen time Obesity
    • If our effort to become productive we use ever screen possible and this obsession pushes up to 10 hours a day on various devices.
  6. Trapped on a wheel
    • So, you walk from your home office to the dining room then to the kitchen then back to your home office…been here before.  Yes, you have.
  7. Losing your talent
    • I’m a creature of habit and routine and this is where my craft blossoms.  Without that routine, my talents are at risk…
  8. Filing Time with gibberish
    • Fooling yourself you are actually being productive is pretty common. Let’s have pointless Zoom meetings and phone calls whilst goofing off.
  9. The plague of interruptions
    • The perception that you are “available” at home is annoying and probably my number problem….Yes, I am busy and Yes you are interrupting me.
  10. Lost of Risk
    • From the time you step out of your house you are risking something to gain something. Without that Risk, there is nothing to gain and without that gain, you are just a cardboard cutout of your true self.

Creating my own certainty out of nothing, grind some labs and re-inventing my your own purpose.

Lifestyle of a job-hunter

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Zombie flights

Any fan of AMC’s original series The Walking Dead will be taking note of the parallels to our current lockdown state. Restricted travel is bad enough but travel docs are now more critical than ever. From tomorrow, additional clearance is needed for anyone returning to the UK whether you are a National or Visitor. You are greeted by a horrendous warning if you try to renew your UK Passport from outside the country.

Normal service standards are currently suspended. We cannot confirm when a passport will be received, or when documents provided in support of an application will be returned.

Sunday 7th June 2020 UK Government – Passport renewals

Like the The Walking Dead we do not know the root cause of the outbreak and do not have a cure or vaccine….just don’t get bitten.

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Do you know something I don’t know?

It’s kinda worrying when a health workers turns up to your house after you’ve called medical services for a C-19 test.

I’m not panicking yet as at least this way I will know either way why I feel so bad over the past few days. Is it Myasthenia gravis kicking my ass again or something else?

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Gaming As a Therapeutic method (GAT)

This is not the time or place to be broken-hearted or wounded.  Condolences are often followed with a mild barrage of stories about how “they lost someone also” and whilst this is fine and therapeutic for them it does nothing for me.  Anyhow, it all said with the best of intentions, so I listen and smile and pivot onto another topic.

Using my own self craft Gaming As a Therapeutic method (GAT) I dived back into the Divison 2 for the Chapter 3 content and of course, my absolute best killing style of burning things to a crisp was boasted by the Firewall Specialist. This is very appropriate for Firewall Specialist.

Trying to remain upbeat in a onslaught of negative news is beast especially Division 2 glitches my out of the game every few hours . This is annoying in an otherwise smooth online service but users and gamers expected 99.999% uptime nowadays and I know how tough that is to maintain.

Real World mirrors Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
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Holidays Survival

Sundays, Christmas holidays and meetings all have traits that make me want to head to an isolated beach and a snack.

The stealth poison of being busy contaminated the quality of all my relationships and I often allow to go unchallenged.

London 11:44 – one of the worst times to travel on the underground

Christmas holidays: The ba humbug of unnecessary overspending.

5 Traits of failed busYness

Failure to plan
Failure to anticipate
Failure to research
Failure to look at lessons learned from previous events
Peer or crowd pressure to follow the popular
Failure to create contingencies
Failure to avoid white noise
I’m busier than you disease
You are so lazy condemnation

No, I don’t want a gift from you