Grumpy Old Man
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kiwiwomble I was the opposite. I went through my uni years averaging three hours sleep a night. Or so I'm told. They're a bit of a blur ....
didn't say when i went to sleep
@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
How do you physically do that. Like there were times in my past where I slept into 11am pretty regularly, it's a choice you make. Your body knows what's happening and once it's light I could wake up at any point and know what was happening.
**** So strange to be THAT dead to the world that you can get to 11am without having any clue what's happening**.**
I’d be on my 4th or 5th piss by 11am
the more i think about it the more im wondering if @antipodean is correct and not actually asleep...just couldnt get to his phone
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@MN5 that is something that plagued me for years, although I do drink alot of fluids.
Didnt matter when I stopped drinking, I'd need to get up 2 or 3 times in the night (this has been the case for as long as I can remember)
But I had always been someone who went for a piss pretty much when I felt I needed one (almost always the first to break the seal when having beers with the boys) a very bad habit to get into.
So changing that habit, and I started taking a prostate supplement with saw palmetto in it, now, I get up once, sometimes not at all.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MN5 that is something that plagued me for years, although I do drink alot of fluids.
Didnt matter when I stopped drinking, I'd need to get up 2 or 3 times in the night (this has been the case for as long as I can remember)
But I had always been someone who went for a piss pretty much when I felt I needed one (almost always the first to break the seal when having beers with the boys) a very bad habit to get into.
So changing that habit, and I started taking a prostate supplement with saw palmetto in it, now, I get up once, sometimes not at all.
Yeah a slightly more recent thing for me, I’ve always been a late starter.
As I recall it started last summer on holiday in the bay when I was sleeping in the garage as the house was full of other family. The garden got a few impromptu 2am waterings……
Will look into something like you’ve mentioned because as I get older ( as we all are ) I crave a good nights sleep more than ever.
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So much of needing to go for a piss is in yr head. My partner was a bed wetter as a child so she was sent to hypnosis to stop it. Works so well that the moment she even thinks about needing to piss or feels the slightest bladder pressure she has to go. IMMEDIATELY. Then pisses a teaspoon. Fucking annoying
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@dogmeat absolutely, that was part of my problem....I would be lying there about to go to sleep, went for a piss 20 mins before, but I'd lie awake thinking, "I should have a piss" and then I'd try to squeeze out the last drops, or I'd wake in the night for whatever reason, not really needing to go, but I'd get up and go, thinking if I dont I will wake in an hour needing to go, or lie awake thinking about if I should get up....
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My problem is that if I ever wake up during the night then I need a piss. So the combination of very loud Australian wildlife (possums fark em) and my son routinely coming home from a night out means Im woken multiple times and thus need to piss multiple times.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
the combination of very loud Australian wildlife (possums fark em) and my son routinely coming home from a night out
...but you repeat yourself
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for actual fucks sake, this dude is only casual so told him to give it a couple of days for the corporate machine to finish his onboarding, call back in today for the team meeting (9am) so i can introduce him to the rest of the team and then finish all his HSE stuff, came by my desk at 830 and said he wasnt sure if he should come in on call in so played it safe and came in, cool.....then i couldnt find him and i text him to ask where he was and he said he'd left his computer in his car.....just came back at 930...completely missed the team meeting...seemed to have no idea what i was talking about....
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@Kiwiwomble Is he an engineer? And if so, how on earth did he finish a degree?
If you're operating on a three strikes policy, then he's got one chance left...
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@antipodean he's an undergrad, works around study....where as most undergrad we kind of assume they'll graduate on time....im starting to wonder about this guy
literally what i just told him, you cant just miss appointments, you need to listen when i tell you there is a team meeting...but also clear your email/check your calendar
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
My son is in his third year of Uni so potentially he's in the workforce next year.... which reminds me: I need to grump about something else...
The Boy will be graduating Uni this year - the subject he failed might need to be made up between semesters
This is Sydney in the 21st century, so he's unlikely to move out any time soon because real estate here is mental. That's fine as he has a fairly decent space in our house, access to public transport, and no plans to get a gf by the looks. And his Mum would freak out if he left too
His degree is in Communications with his major streams in entertainment tech e.g. video editing, special effects, stage craft etc. so I don't know what the future holds. If he's working gigs etc. and maybe transporting gear, he's probably going to need a car.
I have the perfect candidate: my current 2012 X-Trail.
Economic to run or service. Stands up to punishment. Can get to locations that your average hatch back might struggle with. Serious transport capacity. And I've replaced the main stuff that needed replacing so it is about as roadworthy as anything out there with ~150,000 on the clock.
The strategy would be to make him save up for it and do a full purchase once he's got a job. I will even give him a discount on market rate
It's a win for everyone: I go get my Kia EV5. He gets a car, learns how to save, and my mortgage offset gets a little boost 
I/we also have a dirt-road capable vehicle in case I/we need to go camping 
Mrs TA thinks we should instead trade my car on the Kia EV5 and then go buy The Boy something for $12k-$15k.
Bah humbug.
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@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
Sometimes I wish I was a farmer or a builder, someone who delivers real value to the world. But then I realise that would actually entail hard work, something I've steadfastly avoided for all of my 36 years on earth.
As the son of a farmer, let me say:
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You made the right decision on that.
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There is something primal and mentally very powerful about producing something physical. I rebuilt my garage shelving into something a lot better so I could fit a home gym, and it was very satisfying (except painting which is great for the first 55 minutes and/or serious mis-step with the roller). Same feeling I got when building my pool deck, even tho most chippies would laugh at it.
You can see why men's sheds exist.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
Can't say the same about the 50 plus year old "floaters" though. Not sure if they switched their brains off at 40 or whether they've always been like that and coasted the entire time.
A colleague and I - both in our 40s
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Anyway, we're having a coffee because we only see each other every couple of months, and we were talking about some of the mouth-breathers in the building, particularly the "ways of working" types and such. I quipped:
"I've noticed that most of these Agile Facilitators appear to be middle aged women with no discernible skills"
She snorted coffee.
