First world problems 2017!!

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  1. Bran

    Bran Well-Known Member

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    {Note - thread continued from here: First world problems 2016!!}


    I want to go to gym today, but don't want everyone to think I'm going because it's a New Years resolution.
     
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    Flip it the other way, people at the gym are thinking the same way, they might not show up and then you'll get the whole place to yourself.
     
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    With THAT body they will know you have been going to the gym for a while now
     
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    If you've been there before not an issue.

    If you're considering signing up today it's a bit obvious ;)
     
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    I'll keep you around :)
     
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    It would be better if you buy a round.
     
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    It's so much more difficult to shop for presents these days- Christmas and birthdays.

    I used to buy the old standbys of books, music or DVDs-- but with all of that available cheaply online, it's not worth buying for people.
     
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    We got a letter today (I almost fainted)....dated 23/12/16...from Medicare saying that we're xlose to reaching some theeshold for the 2016 calendar year. :eek:
     
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    Too bad they're late. It's 2017 now...
    What's the threshold by the way? And what did you do to yourself to almost reach the threshold?
     
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    It's about $1,500 - linky

    Other than a hospital visit, operation, copious xrays, physio etc & all the usual meds, nothing unusual.
     
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    I forgot to use my Medibank extras at the podiatrist. Resets in January
     
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    After travelling to Nepal, Singapore, Chile, Argentina, Peru, India, UK and Cuba in the last 12 months I have 4 days of leave left no firm travel plans for 12 months (yet).
     
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    After upgrading the old media server with a heap of new storage capacity, I now have to move about 20TB of media from the file server across. The only problem is that the parity calculations limit the write-speed to around 30MB/s which will make that over a week and I can't do it by sneaker-net (copy onto a hard drive then walk it over to the media server and copy it off again).
     
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    Of course, being back at work now, there is the problem of a gajillion emails and support tickets to deal with.
     
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    ... and then there is the added distraction of the email from Australia Post:

    "Your shipment from Amazon is due for delivery today"

    ... and I be like:

    [​IMG]
     
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    Do they have post offices in the Amazon? :confused:


    Hmmmm. I suppose they wood (sic) considering that they keep cutting down trees.
     
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    He's waiting for his kindle books to be delivered.

    Which is shameful really. Books made from Amazon rainforest trees when he could have used his own furniture for kindling.
     
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    I booked an Imax movie a week in advance and chose the ideal middle seats and went on to complain how far they were from the exits and it'll be forever to get out after the movie. The attendant rolled her eyes.
     
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    My nespresso pods have not arrived now I have to have a decaf.... my world is totally shattered.
     
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    Sacrilege!!! That's just not coffee.
     
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