Recently I have had many things going on in my life. Everything from school to kids to work. In addition my house has had to be cleaned and a myriad of many other details taken care of. As a result of too many things going on at once I've been sick more often than ever. I am yet again home sick with a sinus thing and a sore throat. I have to ask myself why? Why am I yet again sick? What is it in my life that is causing this?
I've taken a semester off from school to study for my MOS. Not too terribly hard as far as educational endeavors go at least for me. I am fairly sure I'll pass both Excel and Power Point fairly easily. After that it's a simple matter of learning a bit more about Access and boning up for the Expert Excel & Word tests. I have until mid-November so no big deal. Scratch school and homework and term papers off as a stressor.
Work... I love what I do. I teach computer skills to people. Anyone and everyone who walks in my door is welcome to learn whatever they want to all they have to do is ask and I'll teach. Projects for the boss... I have roughly 30 but nothing truly time critical. I have a new routine for some old tasks and now those old tasks take even less time than they did a couple weeks ago. Scratch work off the list as a stressor.
Eating habits.... these have drastically improved as well. I'm eating much better both in quantity and quality of foods. Lots of veggies and fruit with meat and grains thrown in for good measure. I live on stir fry veggies with chicken and my favorite fruit smoothies. My only issue here is liquid intake..perhaps my main issue is in dehydration... I'm going to explore that more but overall not a major stressor.
The apartment.... kitchen is overall much cleaner than it has been, my desk is almost always a disaster--stressor, the laundry is always a big pile--stressor but otherwise the house is fairly well maintained for one with 2 children and a disabled cat... ok so the cat is a stressor too.
Finances.... usually a big one for most people... not true really, I have the funds to do what I need to and am actually getting ahead. I am about to shut down some community programs as I have stabilized my life to a point that I can ditch programs that cause stress in the form of paperwork. Not a stressor... well once I close things down it won't be as the programs cause more stress than supporting myself.
Old issues-- now here is where I think my root problem is. I have unresolved issues with an ex. I think this is the place I need to now focus on and resolve things. My question is how? Counseling is one option and is my likely one but here's a kicker with that I have a distrust and dislike of counselors as a past issue... so how do I seek a counselor when I don't like counselors? My answer... talk to my doctor and call for appointments for a counselor. Why haven't I done this yet? Because I need to get past procrastination and it's just time.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Thursday, August 9, 2007
8.2 Environment
Surviving Chronic E-Mail Fatigue... why should I survive it I've had it since 1995 when I was one of 600 seniors in high school who had home internet access and a home PC. I have been addicted to e-mail a long time. Yes, it is incredibly addictive. I obsessively check 2-3 accounts about every 20 minutes during the day while working and only 1 is for work the other 2 are my personal accounts!
I will wholeheartedly agree that it is completely addictive. When I was without it from Sept 10, 2001 to March 1, 2002 I was a disaster. I was cranky and out of touch with a number of people I had become close to or spent hours communicating with including my family in another state and my best friends from high school. I will also state for the record that it is incredibly addictive as are things like instant messaging which gave me the skill of typing quickly with only one hand as I was busy holding and breast feeding my child with the other one. I learned to use shortcut keys that way as well.
I wholeheartedly now trust my spam filters on my Gmail accounts and my Outlook accounts to save me from the headaches and hassles of SPAM. I now lecture in the mornings on the evils of SPAM and how to protect your accounts as well.
I am, well, completely, totally, unabashedly addicted to e-mail. It is one of the best tools I have to "get 'er done"!
I will wholeheartedly agree that it is completely addictive. When I was without it from Sept 10, 2001 to March 1, 2002 I was a disaster. I was cranky and out of touch with a number of people I had become close to or spent hours communicating with including my family in another state and my best friends from high school. I will also state for the record that it is incredibly addictive as are things like instant messaging which gave me the skill of typing quickly with only one hand as I was busy holding and breast feeding my child with the other one. I learned to use shortcut keys that way as well.
I wholeheartedly now trust my spam filters on my Gmail accounts and my Outlook accounts to save me from the headaches and hassles of SPAM. I now lecture in the mornings on the evils of SPAM and how to protect your accounts as well.
I am, well, completely, totally, unabashedly addicted to e-mail. It is one of the best tools I have to "get 'er done"!
8.1 National Identity
Now this has a special place for me as it encompasses several issues in one blow, which is why I chose the essay, "Why Fear National ID Cards" to comment on.
I fear the national ID card and RFID and ID chips implanted in the body because it is another way our civil liberties can be reduced and minimized. It is how we can be controlled especially financially and how we can be tracked globally with GPS systems. I object to it because I am in a national database that I can not control the security of the computer system. All it takes is one unethical hacking employee to start changing information in the database under someone else's user ID or to plainly back door exploit and hack the system in the first place, to really mess things up for someone.
I half way favor it because it can track dangerous things such as guns. I do feel that if you need a license to drive a car you should have to register your gun so that police and FBI investigators can track it easier to find killers or to find out if it was stolen and help locate it for the owner. I favor a national ID card for all immigrants as it will tell employers who is eligible to work in the country and who is not and help reduce the illegal status of our immigrants (which by the way is another tangent and rant for another day as I do not believe in using the term "Illegal" to refer to an immigrant after all we are all immigrants with the exception of the Native Americans).
I do not favor the ID Card because it takes away our anonymity and a right to privacy. Anyone who swipes your card can find out everything from your credit report to how many traffic tickets you have to if you're possibly cheating on your spouse... well maybe not that but if you have other things in your background that no one else really needs to know.
I can see it for a passport or for government buildings, but for the general public I like sticking with my simple, everyday State Driver's License... well mine is still a learner's permit but I won't go there.
I fear the national ID card and RFID and ID chips implanted in the body because it is another way our civil liberties can be reduced and minimized. It is how we can be controlled especially financially and how we can be tracked globally with GPS systems. I object to it because I am in a national database that I can not control the security of the computer system. All it takes is one unethical hacking employee to start changing information in the database under someone else's user ID or to plainly back door exploit and hack the system in the first place, to really mess things up for someone.
I half way favor it because it can track dangerous things such as guns. I do feel that if you need a license to drive a car you should have to register your gun so that police and FBI investigators can track it easier to find killers or to find out if it was stolen and help locate it for the owner. I favor a national ID card for all immigrants as it will tell employers who is eligible to work in the country and who is not and help reduce the illegal status of our immigrants (which by the way is another tangent and rant for another day as I do not believe in using the term "Illegal" to refer to an immigrant after all we are all immigrants with the exception of the Native Americans).
I do not favor the ID Card because it takes away our anonymity and a right to privacy. Anyone who swipes your card can find out everything from your credit report to how many traffic tickets you have to if you're possibly cheating on your spouse... well maybe not that but if you have other things in your background that no one else really needs to know.
I can see it for a passport or for government buildings, but for the general public I like sticking with my simple, everyday State Driver's License... well mine is still a learner's permit but I won't go there.
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