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ZedLeg wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 12:21 pm You gotta rise and grind dinny

The thing with my work is that it's project based, so I keep telling myself that the next project will be the good one. In truth though fundamentally the structure isn't going to change, the things I'm telling my bosses need doing at their level get ignored so won't change, and the numerous bits of the job that I don't like are not going to go away.

On the other hand, we're more financially secure than we've ever been... and that is good. However, is life too short to spend your days being miserable for a bit more security? Almost certainly.

Gavster wrote: Fri May 05, 2023 11:32 am Last night I had a very vivid dream that I had been chosen to die on Monday and I was spending the remainder of my time running around upset about that fact. I reckon the stuff on this forum this week has really got into my subconscious

Dream? No, I called you about this - you're my sacrifice to the Youtube Algorithm for the success of my new Youtube channel

Cooking with Beany

Where I explain the multitude, magical and myriad ways to do heroin and meth.

See you Monday!

There is an awful lot of good sense being spoken in this thread.

Especially about happiness not being a destination - it's what happens when you're on the way somewhere else! Once one has satisfied the basic requirements of food, shelter, safety, a relationship that provides personal validation, and security in all those things, everything else is up for grabs, but none of it is the secret to the "best life" or has any true durability.

In fact, I think I'd go as far as to say that the very concept of a "best life" is just another mechanism for inducing the kind of envy that keeps the consumerist roundabout spinning!

Nefarious wrote: Sun May 07, 2023 3:23 pm In fact, I think I'd go as far as to say that the very concept of a "best life" is just another mechanism for inducing the kind of envy that keeps the consumerist roundabout spinning!

Without a shadow of a doubt.

Without wanting to reopen the debate about what "best life" was/is/should be, today was a corker on my scale.

I spent a good chunk of the morning volunteering with the eldest's class (Y5), just listening to them read and ask questions about the books, then pottered about a bit before repeating with the middle one's class (Y2).

I've then cooked and consumed a lovely meal, had some wine, remembered my mum, and now the boys are playing together on the Switch (youngest is asleep), while Counting Crows are on, and things are just great.

Enjoy. It's lovely when you have one of those really nice days and you sit back at the end of it with a smile and think "that was a great day".

DeskJockey wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:28 pm Counting Crows

- I thought I was the only one…

dinny_g wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 8:15 pm

DeskJockey wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:28 pm Counting Crows

- I thought I was the only one…

Oh no. They're a favourite, moreso of the fairer half, but I've come to appreciate them more and more over the years.

This week started with a nasty health scare (which after finally seeing a consultant ended with nothing), and ended with making a lass 15 years my junior laugh like a drain over a rollup and confirm that she prefers me over the dorks she works with, so I suppose I shouldn't grumble too much.

Her boyfriend would probably find me hilarious too

DeskJockey wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 8:24 pm

dinny_g wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 8:15 pm

DeskJockey wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:28 pm Counting Crows

- I thought I was the only one…

Oh no. They're a favourite, moreso of the fairer half, but I've come to appreciate them more and more over the years.

I saw them live in the courtyard of Dublin Castle in the mid 90’s.

Raining in Baltimore is my party trick. Even better when my sister accompanies on the piano.

Nice!

You counting crows fans might appreciate this then.

@Beany hopefully nothing too serious, GWSYC

The symptoms I had can be connected to 'nothing really' to 'three months to live' so quite glad it turned out to be far closer to the nothing serious side of things!

Beany wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 5:23 pm The symptoms I had can be connected to 'nothing really' to 'three months to live' so quite glad it turned out to be far closer to the nothing serious side of things!

Good to hear

Nicely done, DeskJockey
Good news, Beany

I fell down the stairs in a slip-on-a-banana-skin style a couple of hours ago. Didn't break owt, feel fine*. I'll take that as a positive.
*<Tomorrow lurks in the shadows, laughing...>

Beany wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 12:05 am This week started with a nasty health scare (which after finally seeing a consultant ended with nothing), and ended with making a lass 15 years my junior laugh like a drain over a rollup and confirm that she prefers me over the dorks she works with, so I suppose I shouldn't grumble too much.

Her boyfriend would probably find me hilarious too

Good news !

My health scare was sudden weight loss and swollen glands and nodes... after rapid set of scans and tests at Hospital, then a few weeks of head scratching and change of medicine worked out I had developed a reaction to rampiril.
Since then I've developed issues with other groups of blood pressure pills, which is why I have had to move onto beta blockers.

TRT is going really well, I had my bloods done again last week and the results say I’m exactly where I should be.

It’s a game changer, sleep is better, drive is better, energy is better, weight is coming off with no dietary changes, I enjoy hard physical work again and it feels like if the house exploded then I’d palm it off and easily deal with it all.

So, even if you can hang a wet duffel coat off your knob every morning and break your wife’s spirit 3 times a week, still get checked as it’s the best I’ve felt in years.

Dave!

V8Granite wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 1:01 pm TRT is going really well, I had my bloods done again last week and the results say I’m exactly where I should be.

It’s a game changer, sleep is better, drive is better, energy is better, weight is coming off with no dietary changes, I enjoy hard physical work again and it feels like if the house exploded then I’d palm it off and easily deal with it all.

So, even if you can hang a wet duffel coat off your knob every morning and break your wife’s spirit 3 times a week, still get checked as it’s the best I’ve felt in years.

Dave!

Was that NHS? I had mine done 18 months ago and it was low average (14.1), which means they said "see ya later". Any ideas if that would be considered low if I went private?