"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Personal
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Working through getting ACC sorted out – long story short, on my time off injured my work was still paying me and I assumed that what was happening was that ACC was paying my employer and then my employer was paying me (I have never been on ACC before so this was the first time…
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End of a another day of work, went for for my daily 5.8km walk using the running shoes that I didn’t think I had and afterwards I felt so good. I was watching a video how exercising gives you more energy and that is what I’ve found with going for a walk every day –…
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Back at work today and everything went well – I’m finding that the regular exercise of walking 5.8km each night has really improved not just my health but also my mental health as well. I’ve been having a look around for a healthy substitute for soft drink so I’ve ordered a 24 pack of Remedy…
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Had a very tasty dinner tonight, Mexican salad with some lamb rump baked in the oven and came out absolutely perfect. I don’t want to sound like I’m boasting but I think I got cooking lamb down to an art for – everything else? well, that’s a hit or miss but I am getting better,…
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I got up today and worked from 11:30am to 8:00pm and nos I’ve got two days off. Tonight I went for a power walk – I was going to ‘take it easy’ but I’m one of these people that if I do something I”m either all in or I won’t do it at all, there…
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I had work today from home where I’ve decided to set aside two days, Friday and Saturday, as my fasting days – not a complete absence of food but instead having a meal replacement for both breakfast and dinner. I thought I wouldn’t be able to get through it believing the hunger would become unbearable…
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I’ve got the lifestyle change in terms of what I eat sorted out now I am focusing on fine tuning what I consume – my vice being Pepsi Max (and soft drink in general (the sugar free variety)) and although there are arguments for and against sugar free soft drinks I have found that I…
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Headed down to the local Pak ‘n Save and did my fortnightly grocery shopping and I was quite surprised at the number of people down at the store, a lot more than I expected. Normally when people come back from the Christmas and New Years break there is a bit of an upsurge in spending…
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I’ve been relaxing and reading through Github to see what my favourite projects are up to – WECG discussion minutes are always a good read especially if you have an interest in the development of the Declarative Net Request API. It’ll be interesting to see what will happen between now and June 2025 when enterprise…
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