"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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First day of my weekend – walked down to my local Dutch bakery and cafe to order an eggs bene and a bowl of caffè mocha for a late brunch (well, technically it was around 3pm between lunch and dinner) – enjoying the good weather after having a week of wild rain and wind. I…
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Last night I started watching ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and now I am up to season 2 – I love a good binge watch while I’m waiting for new seasons to start of the other shows I like to watch. It is scary how close the narrative is to certain groups that appear to have grown…
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I’m feeling a little bit better and I finally had a night of uninterrupted sleep which has enabled me to catch up on 4 days of waking up every couple of hours and rushing to the bathroom in pain. I’m still deciding whether I need an extra day to recover because I don’t want to…
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Tomorrow (I started writing this blog post on Thursday) is Friday or what would be for most people ‘hump day’, the middle of my week then two days more afterwards then I have Monday and Tuesday off for my weekend. Law & Order: Organised Crime Season 5 has started up again – reminds me very…
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As much as I like to relax on my day off I also want to get things done that I can’t or don’t get done during the week when I’m working. The first thing I did today was doing a clean install of all the Apple devices (including my iPhone 16 Pro Max where I…
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Quite a busy week so far in the technology industry – Google released Android 16 beta 4 (link) and it appears that the kernel version has also been updated (not a major version update) and I’ve read reports regarding the Pixel 9 Pro XL showing performance improvements. The expected release is around the middle of…
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On my 30 minute break from work I contacted the medical centre where my doctor operates from and organised the HbA1c blood test and urine test to check for kidney functions. The nurse at the medical centre contacted me back and informed me that my HbA1c has gone from 89 down to 41 which is…
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As mentioned previously I went for a blood test on Monday and the last time I had one 3 months ago it took 3 days to come back so either one of two things – it is taking longer because they’re busy or the answer I’d much rather prefer which is ‘no news is good…
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Well, I went to the Awanui Labs blood testing for my A1C test however I also found that there was an urine test (I saw it on the document my doctor gave me, thought it may have been a mistake) so I guess the reason was to also check my kidney function as well. Normally…
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Busy week and almost Monday, the big day for my A1C blood test, hopefully I’ll get an answer back quickly to see whether all the hard work has paid off. On Thursday I went for a 14.5km walk then on Friday a 8km walk then on Saturday another 8km walk. The walk on Friday was…
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