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[Kagus]

My labs came back with high cholesterol.  Now I get to see if my PCP will let me try to adjust diet & exercise or if they are going to put me on meds immediately. 

Well I was about to say something about them hopefully being fine with the diet and exercise approach, what with the changing views on cholesterol and potentially harmful side effects of the meds, but Google tells me the whole "Statins lead to heart failure" thing from years ago appears to have been total bunk. So hey.

I'm not sure PCP is really the best medication with which to lower cholesterol, but who knows...

You'll certainly get your exercise in!

[Iduno]

Forgot to save my progress on a document. Computer crashed. 10 pages of homebrew tabletop info gone.

Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S Ctrl+S

Great, now I'm remembering back in school when we'd have to save to floppy disks, because there was no network storage. This was a bad idea, because floppy disks are shit. You'd save your document to two different floppy disks, check in another computer to see if one of them still worked, then you were usually good. Sometimes when you went to print, the new computer broke the floppy or it had corrupted at some point, but that's just one of the risks of using media that actively hates working.

Oh right, like a GP.

Sort of. It's an insurance thing. You can only ever see one doctor (your Primary Care Pdoctor), unless they sign off on you seeing someone else. It's designed to prevent the insurance company having to pay for people seeing specialists for minor things like heart problems and cancer.

[nenjin]

My go-to hoodie went missing yesterday.

Was nice, one of those athletic hoodies that's form fitting instead of loose. Had a nice sort of quilted fabric across the shoulders. Snug and warm while still letting your torso breathe. Thick fabric without looking very thick.

It's less that I lost a good hoodie that bugs me, and more that I don't know how I lost it. I took it off when I changed for the gym after work, had it hanging up in the gym, remember bringing it back to the bathroom with me to change back in to regular clothes, then......? It was so warm last night I didn't put it back on, I assume I just slung it under my backpack strap like I usually do, and think I remember throwing it in to my car along with my backpack before I went and got dinner. Didn't touch it during the rest of my movements that night. Went out to check my car later for it while at a friend's house because it started to get colder and in the dark I couldn't seem to find it so I said fuck it, it's probably in there. Got home later and really looked for it....couldn't find it.

It was like not having skin the whole of today >.> No one in the building has turned it in, and the restaurant I went to last night didn't have it. Not that I remember taking it in there, but it never hurts to cover your bases.

So I went shopping after work and bought another from the same brand but a different model I guess. It's a WarmTek hoodie versus my old DryTek hoodie....and somehow the "WarmTek" is thinner and less warm than the WetTek, which maybe they don't even make anymore, cause I got it as a gift more than a few years ago. The new hoodie is more fashionable, but less functional.

The thought of my hoodie maybe like, laying out on the street somewhere getting wet and muddy and tore up makes me feel bad. If someone swiped it while I forgot it somewhere, I hope they treat it well. If I did leave it somewhere and no one has taken it.....this feels like a serious senior moment. It's weird, I shouldn't feel this anxious about something like this, but I am for some reason.

Cool story bro, I know.

My labs came back with high cholesterol.  Now I get to see if my PCP will let me try to adjust diet & exercise or if they are going to put me on meds immediately. 

In my humble non-medical opinion, if they want to put you on meds I would really seriously advise trying diet and exercise first. Cholesterol in and of itself is not bad. Your body uses it to produce testosterone, and even produces some (I think actually a large percentage of your daily needs) of its own by itself. And there has been some findings and studies done around men's health and the issue of cholesterol*, and the focus on getting guys' cholesterol down through medication and low cholesterol diets has some links to aspects of low testosterone in aging (as in 30+) men. Weight gain, depression, low energy, muscle loss, stuff like that. As you get older you naturally produce less testosterone, so that combined with drugs and a diet that that reduce your cholesterol, and you sort of take a double hit to your testosterone levels.

So yeah. Maybe diet and exercise before drugs. Just some non-professional, unsolicited advice.

* There's been some looking back at the "heart health" science of the last ~40 years, and the impact of the whole low fat craze of American food stuffs, and it's calling into question a lot of now medically accepted truths about cholesterol levels and the possible unintended consequences of trying to treat them. It's definitely worth doing some research on.

[Loud Whispers]

Unironically cool story. I felt the same way after I left my favourite umbrella at a bus stand - I just hoped someone out there appreciated it as much as I did, because it got me through a fair few stormy nights (literal and metaphorical)

[Eric Blank]

Sometimes I can barely contain my contempt for customers. Especially the ones that are deliberately rude. Like today.

I wish I could just claim disability and not have to waste my life on the whims of assholes. At least a little less.

[Iduno]

Sometimes I can barely contain my contempt for customers. Especially the ones that are deliberately rude. Like today.

I wish I could just claim disability and not have to waste my life on the whims of assholes. At least a little less.

The most important part of customer service, is not telling the customers to go service themselves _{loudly enough that they hear.}

[MrRoboto75]

Sometimes I can barely contain my contempt for customers. Especially the ones that are deliberately rude. Like today.

I wish I could just claim disability and not have to waste my life on the whims of assholes. At least a little less.

IME disability sucked and basically never actually payed out.

[Yoink]

Stayed up all night playing Disco Elysium. One of those situations where you glance at the time during a loading screen, think "oh, it's just past three, I'll wrap this up and go to bed at four" and next thing you know it's quarter to five.
Most of the couple hours of sleep I did get were spent having at least moderately exciting dreams, too.

I have stuff I was planning to do today, too. Just social, band-seeing type stuff, but still. In theory I should be getting ready for that now, since it starts at like... 1:30, but it's anyone's guess when I will muster up the energy to drag myself outta this nice, warm, cozy bed.

[Kagus]

This is more of a mild irritation, but uggh... Fuckin' clickbait titles.

I saw a headline about "Latest Windows 10 update filled with ransomware", and filed a mental note to see what that was about the next day, but when I closed the computer down for the night I saw the "Update and shut down" button and clicked it out of habit (I tend to just bite the bullet these days to keep it from nagging me).

Booted up today, confirmed that I had in fact shut down the night before and not just closed the lid, and set out to find the article again to see how bad the damage was gonna be (was thinking they maybe added in some sort of annoying bloat programs that were being sensationalized as "ransomware").


...it's got nothing to fucking do with the update, it's talking about yet another spam mail making the rounds saying to "Please download this important update file" which is a fucking .jpg. Some sites are running the story with "Fake update" in the title, but others are conveniently misplacing that ever-so-important adjective.

Goddamn dishonest of them.

[TD1]

Yea I assumed it was hyped clickbait myself there. But I suppose you never know.

[Iduno]

This is more of a mild irritation, but uggh... Fuckin' clickbait titles.

I saw a headline about "Latest Windows 10 update filled with ransomware",

My immediate response to that was "No it isn't." I've also gotten to where I see that it's clickbait BS, and ignore it.

[Yoink]

Spoiler: Confusing, stressed-out rambling about employment shite (click to show/hide)

It's a long and confusing story which I don't know if I can explain succinctly, but basically I am chronically unemployed and am supposed to be transferring from one government agency that deals with that sort of thing to another (that is more geared towards helping no-hopers get their shit together), but for some reason (I'm guessing clunky automated systems and pointless beaurocracy) an appointment with the old group has been automatically set for me today.

Now, I spoke to the over-arching service that is supposed to oversee both of these smaller companies (called 'providers', though what they provide other than stress and unpleasantness I've no idea) and they said to simply call the first lot and have them postpone the appointment to next month, at which point it would become irrelevant.
Great! That's not such a big deal! What a weight off my mind.

So then I call them, as instructed, sitting through another bout of (somehow even worse) hold music and recorded voices talking shit, finally get ahold of a human employee, and... they flatly refuse to help, saying they can't reschedule it that far away and that I'm still required to attend. They magnaminously offered to reschedule it for tomorrow, as if that would help anything.    
Then they told me I could try calling the other provider to see if they can push their appointment forward. Ugh.

No thank you, two phone calls has already left me feeling stressed enough. There is no way I am setting foot in my old provider's offices again (I'm creeping my way towards a panic attack at the very thought), so I guess I'll just have to miss an appointment and grovel for forgiveness later in the week. It is only Tuesday, after all, and I'm due to be paid on Sunday.

...Fuck, it just occurred to me that they might not reinstate my payment until I actually attend another appointment. Oh gods this just gets worse. I need to pay my gas bill on Sunday. Dx   


Although, silver lining, if memory serves I think the company's "re-engagement" appointments are a lot less painful than their actual full-blown torture sessions, so maybe I can just call them up tomorrow and arrange one of those for later in the week. *shrug*

[Iduno]

For Yoink:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Reelya]

Yeah Yoink, don't skip out on an appointment. If that happens they have to click non-attend in the computer, and the Centerlink computer will *automatically* kick you off payments, then you'll have to have multiple additional appointments before you can get it cleared up and get your payments back.

There used to be warnings and some discretion from the providers, but the current government took that away. Even being sufficiently late to an appointment might mean automatically being kicked off benefits, and they'll tell you they can't fix it that day and you have to go to Centerlink another day to fix it.

This happened to me. I had a good case worker, she let me come in at any time, not necessarily the appointment time, because I was low hassle and got on well with them. But then turns out she was off work one day I was supposed to come in and one of the others marked me as non-attending for being late, Then I had a bunch of hassles to get benefits reinstated.

[hector13]

I’ll plus one attending meetings now.

Sometimes a little hassle now is better than dealing with a shitstorm later, even if it’s due to other people being crap.