Matisyahu's Blog

I woke up today at around 9am, I was deciding whether I should lay in bed for another half hour but I thought I may as well get out of bed because I’ll end up feeling more tired the more I hang around in bed. I got changed, warmed up with some stretching and then went for my morning walk – I was able to get down to 9 minute and 54 second for 1km meaning I was able to do 8km in under an 1 hour and 20 minutes which is around 6km per hour. Although my Apple Watch does keep track of the calories, the problem with the calories counter is that it isn’t always accurate but I tend to operator on 70 calories per kilometre so in a normal 8km walk I’m burning around 560 calories. The one thing I don’t do is include the calories burnt as part of my calories intake for the day because as I’ve noted in the past there isn’t a guarantee of always being able to get out for a walk especially during winter.

The mobile phone carrier I’m with had a nationwide outage, nothing was updated on the outage page nor was it updated after the issue had been resolved. There appears to be a habit by businesses who think if they ignore a problem it’ll go away, if they hide the status of their service on their website then that ia good business practice because god forbid being transparent. As someone who works in a call centre, so many calls could be avoided if there was proper communication with the public which would avoid people from having to ring up to find out what is going on – whether it is an issue on their end or whether the organisation is having technical difficulties. I sometimes wonder why a business have a communications team given how often things are poorly communication or requiring those on the front line having to traverse through layers of bureaucracy just to get the information out there to customers. I’ve said it once and I’ll again – just because you ignore a problem doesn’t mean that it’ll go away.

I’ve been having a look at the latest polls and it appears that there is potential for a centre left government but that is assuming the upswing in support for the Greens holds through to the election, The problem is at the moment is the fact that there are so many variables, there is the 60 day ceasefire where there is negotiations taking place but one thing to keep in mind is that even if an agreement is signed that agreement has to be submitted to congress, pass both houses and then signed by the president. There is also the uncertainty about whether Israel will abide by it given that if they do start attacking Iran or Lebanon that I don’t see the United States doing anything to bring Israel to heel meaning that the treaty maybe over as quickly as it was signed. Then there is the unclogging of the Strait of Hormuz which may take months or possibly years but that is assuming that in the meantime there isn’t a shift towards electric cars, hybrids and greater investment into public transportation so that there is greater resilience to future energy shocks and the industries that depend on that energy.