Rambling Thoughts
Jun. 3rd, 2003 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanHo hum. Apparently my assistance in liberating "11,000,000.00 million dollars" from a bank account in Ghana would be invaluable. Amazing really, the amount of times unfeasibly large sums of money go missing in Africa. Actually it isn't, but that's a slightly different and more depressing issue. First time I've had a 419 in a while, 6/10 for this one I think. They lose points for having insufficient random capitalisation and for the fund being quite so unfeasibly large.
I note the Labour party is thinking about having treatment agreements between the NHS and patients, including such things as having a decent diet and stopping smoking. This is precisely the kind of thing that leads me to rant about the nanny state and end up declaring that I shall be voting conservative at the next election and/or developing apoplexy, but I am resisting the temptation. Suffice it to say that the excise Gordon collects on cigarettes is more than three times the highest ever estimate of what smoking costs the NHS before factoring in the fact we die sooner and therefore claim less pension, and that being so I don't see why the state gets any right to put restrictions on the healthcare I'm entitled to or to otherwise penalise me. My personal choices are not their business. (Subject to the passive smoking issue I grant, which is more a matter of factual than principled debate in my mind.)
One wonders whether these agreements will also include an agreement to stop skiing. For instance.
Frankly I doubt any such agreement would be legally enforceable, but then it simply becomes vacuous posturing, which is possibly even more irritating.
Oh and in marginally related news the hospital concluded there is nothing fundamentally wrong with me. Apparently I just don't treat my body as a temple, unless it's a temple to Yog Soggoth. Apparently chain smoking and drinking excessive amounts of coffee, lots of whisky and very little water is bad for you. Who knew?
Right. I've got to work out if somebody can claim a lien, and it's proving difficult. Laters.
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Date: 2003-06-03 06:34 am (UTC)So are you planning to change your chain smoking and coffee/whisky drinking ways? Presumably drinking more water at least is an option. What's your diet like?
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Date: 2003-06-03 06:42 am (UTC)Actually, I do eat a proper meal, what's cooked by me from proper food and includes green stuff almost every night. V. rarely eat pre-packed or prepared stuff. Lots of pasta during the week 'cos I'm usually exhausted when I get in.
I blame Channel 4 for putting the good TV on so late.
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Date: 2003-06-03 06:47 am (UTC)Currently trying to cut down on / give up caffeine.
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Date: 2003-06-03 06:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 07:06 am (UTC)Good to hear the news from the hospital.
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Date: 2003-06-03 07:09 am (UTC)Up your water intake. That can make a collosal difference. I take 1.5l bottle everywhere with me, and drink/refill it constantly. Get through at least 4.5ls a day.
Upside: I'm always properly hydrated. Downside: I end up pissing like a witch.
Swings and roundabouts I guess.
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Date: 2003-06-03 07:42 am (UTC)Yes, I should drink more water, I know. I manage it when I'm in hot places, but lets face it, water is deathly dull.
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Date: 2003-06-03 07:59 am (UTC)A word of warning though - you *really* need a bathroom after 40 minutes or so and you tend to feel queasy the first few days. Also, it is a bad idea to eat anything during the first hour.
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Date: 2003-06-03 08:36 am (UTC)