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I spent over 2 hours in the garden today wielding my mattock. I've got sore shoulders now. We have something like sea wheat grass in our lawn - I'm not 100% sure what it is. Most of our lawn is this stuff. It's horrible! It grows long, long thick roots with sharp bits, but the roots are shallow and the "grass" grows up out…
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I dream a lot and often wake up feeling like I have just completed a very busy day. Many of my dreams are of war and espionage. I'm usually leading up a team trying to get into/out of a sticky (sometimes quite scary) situation. Bicycles factor heavily in a lot of my dreams. Sometimes I'm just doing long distance rides,…
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Exercise today ... Nice warm lunch walk. Nice fairly calm evening bicycle ride. Plus 22 flights of 20 stairs = 440 steps. Machka in Oz
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Happy Birthday 🎂
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Weird day yesterday. Big truck broke down on the bridge and blocked traffic for over an hour. Stood at the bus stop for an hour. Got to work an hour late. Frustrations with data submissions. Then my husband told me the power went out at home and it was off for 4 hours. A bird strike. Dentist cleaning appointment.…
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I just cannot fathom the idea of willingly waking up at any point between 1 am and 7 am ... and getting up to start my day. I do get up a couple times in the night for the Toilet Trek, but I'm half asleep when that happens and I have actually fallen back to sleep on the toilet. And about 7 seconds after returning to bed, I…
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The new things don't have to be monumental and extensive. Some of the new things I learn on a day are a word or two in code and how to use them ... just takes a few minutes. Or learning what a difference planting my lilac tree in the ground vs in a barrel makes. Or trying out a different kind of pen for my colouring. As…
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In Canada, where Tracey is, Thanksgiving was in October. There's no Thanksgiving in Australia but I am looking forward to Christmas. I just booked 3 days of recreation leave to get a full 17 days off. We are not going anywhere. My plan is to spend the time unpacking and setting up the house. And if the weather is good I…
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My new thing each work day is delving deeper into SQL code and combining it with Power Query so that it populates Excel. I don't like that our output must be Excel but that's the choice of the Commonwealth. It is what it is. I climb stairs when I get frustrated. M in Oz
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I was looking at it and thinking that it's often a rolling progression for me. My Fear Zone is usually a tiny sliver You're probably right that I feel fairly comfortable in the Learning Zone. Then I accomplish whatever it is I was learning, feel comfortable for a moment, and move into the Growth Zone where I'm setting new…
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I'm not quite sure where my comfort zone is. Machka in Oz
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One of the things I had to do when my husband had his accident was relearning to drive. I had not driven in 10 years except for maybe 3 or 4 times with guidance. Suddenly I had to drive everywhere! I've surprised myself that I can do it ... although I did pass on driving out of and into the Vancouver airport. You may be…
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We have separate beds (but in the same room) and we both use earplugs. Works well for us! M in Oz
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My husband had several carers in the early days after his accident ... our favourite one came to visit us today. We haven't seen her in a few years and it was so incredibly nice to see her again. Then my husband and I went cycling ... I'm still sorting, decluttering, unpacking, etc. Machka in Oz
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About doctors missing things ... I went to a particular clinic and saw one doctor there, but also had a back-up doctor. Then all at once both left the clinic and I was scrambling to find someone new. My first option was to find someone else within the clinic. I chose the one I thought would be the best but she was getting…
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https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-ranked-third-for-worlds-cleanest-air-in-global-pollution-study/ Worked from home today! :smiley: Successfully finished a Uni course I was taking for work. :smiley: Made some progress on my work project. :smiley: And got out for a bicycle ride at lunch. :smiley: Machka in Oz
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Thursday -- Had 2 wins with my SQL code. I'm venturing into much more complicated code and it's a bit of trial and error, and googling, and if nothing seems to work, then I ask someone. One bit of code, I got about 90% of it and finally asked someone about the last little bit. I did the other bit of code entirely myself.…
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The only thing that's been suggested is listening to videos like the ones I posted. I also have the Relief app on my phone: https://www.resound.com/en-au/hearing-aids/apps/relief They do help somewhat. I'm going deaf and evidently my tinnitus is a very common precursor to this type of deafness. Eventually, I will need a…
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Generally, bees will leave you alone if you leave them alone ... and if you don't get between them and flowers. :) Wasps are another story. A few wasp species can be pollinators too, but most aren't. They will drink the nectar of flowers, but they'll also often attack other insects (including bees), spiders and so on. And…
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I'll happily pass on being a world citizen ... I don't have the time or energy to take on that level of stress. :open_mouth: I pour my time, energy, and intelligence into my career, the learning I do related to my career, and the learning I do in my personal areas of interest. :) I also don't trust "the news" to get it…
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Happily, I am seeing no US news here. If I look at news, I focus on Tasmanian news. The rest of it doesn't really matter. Machka in Oz
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@PennyinTX ... I think you mentioned Achilles tendon issues. I tore both my Achilles tendons a number of years ago, and was discouraged from walking or cycling for about 6 months. Because I wanted to maintain some semblance of fitness, I focused on doing a lot of crunches and other abdominal exercises, and upper body…
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Bridges?
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On bees ... "According to bee experts at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, a third of the world’s food production depends on bees. When animals and insects pick up the pollen of flowers and spread it, they allow plants, including many food crops, to reproduce. Birds, rodents, monkeys and…
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If you spray something in there, it might kill them which would be terrible. No bees, no food! Find an experienced bee-keeper to deal with them. Small bees are usually precious native bees. Machka in Oz
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Call your local bee-keeping association and ask them if they can do an extraction or if they can direct you to someone who can. Do you know what the bees look like? Machka in Oz
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