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Fibromyalgia - complete body pain

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The sleep paradox. I do not sleep well at night yet cannot keep my eyes open during the day. So, do I not sleep at night because I sleep during the day? No. From the time my wonderful wife gets up until around midday (or later) I find it almost impossible to keep my eyes open, no matter what you might threaten me with! To try and stay awake I will play a movie, and have to restart it at least half a dozen times because I keep nodding off. Even loud action movies. So what is the difference? At night when I am lying next to the most wonderful, selfless, caring and beautiful woman in the world it is completely quiet. This enables me to hear clearly the loud ringing tinitis in my ears, and exquisitely feel the pain all over my body (even with prescribed pain medication). It makes sleep very difficult so I lie here and try to rest, and wait until morning when noises begin and sleep can come my way through distraction. The accompanying picture to this post is almost accurate as t
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Centrelink - epic fail!!

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Centrelink is there for the needy, sick and disadvantaged, and yet provides the worst service of any government agency. The top level of management needs to be sacked immediately, along with their middle management that publish outrageously incorrect phone answering statistics. Then, and I know this will cost us, but there needs to be a Royal Commission into the whole Department and the policies currently in place. It could easily be a case of the right people being tied up by stupid beaurocracy. Until such a public, complete investigation is done those most in need of help in our society will continue to be treated with disdain. We should all be ashamed, especially the policy makers who make it so difficult for Centrelink staff to do their job, for treating our people so badly.
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Do it now!!

You never know when your working life will end. This time last year I was looking forward to the next stage of my career, now I am ill and will never go to work again. I say this not for sympathy, as those close to me give me more than I deserve already, but to plead with you to act now on what you want to do, start that study, or knock on doors for that start you crave, or change careers NOW. You have no idea how long you have, and regrets hurt far worse than all the "No's" you'll receive before you get your yes! Go for it, or resign yourself to decades of regret, your choice.
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Why is Common Sense so uncommon?

Studies, Committees, Senate Reports and PhD’s all have one thing in common…99 percent of them are completely irrelevant and produce nothing we did not already know. Politicians and business ‘leaders’ speak in clichés, and when a real answer is demanded escape to ‘as I understand it’ or defer the question entirely to ‘after a Committee has reported on the issue’. One of the reasons Common Sense is so Uncommon is the need to appease every minor voice, dissenting or otherwise. Unless of course it is the vast majority of PhD’s whose sole purpose are to meet quotas and lift University rankings.  Everyone knows Nokia failed because they stopped watching the mobile phone market (now the smartphone market, but they missed the name change) and yet their top executives believe they did nothing wrong, and cry themselves into stupidity at press conferences. Everyone knows that government departments, on the whole, are top heavy and waste millions of dollars on salaries not require
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Location: Adelaide SA, Australia
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Why didn’t Brexit win the Coalition government?

When news of Brexit hit the media almost exactly one week prior to our election last Saturday, my first thought was that this will guarantee a Coalition victory on July 2 nd . But it didn’t. Why not? Why should it have? The first reaction from the world to the Brexit news was to sell shares and buy gold, a very conservative reaction to uncertainty that occurs like clockwork whenever people feel out of control. There was also widespread reporting of wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the populace in the UK at the unheralded uncertainty of it all, increasing the price of gold even further. When uncertainty strikes, people flee to what they know and the status quo wins wherever it exists. So why didn’t the Coalition win last Saturday, as people stuck with ‘certainty’, as I predicted they would by 52 percent to 48 percent? Political apathy and disillusionment. We are now hearing of ‘recriminations’ among the Federal Liberal Party, which is another way of saying
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Location: Adelaide SA, Australia
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Office Of Business Within Government

Office of Business Within Government The common statement “the business of governing” is detrimental, as the focus should be upon providing government with the best efficiencies private business experience, and expertise, has to offer. The statement  should  read “implementing business within government”. This involves implementing within government the best efficiencies of business by identifying process improvements, removing duplication of effort, improving inter-departmental coordination, reviewing and assessing key personnel (always with the goal of ‘best fit’) with positions allocated by merit, and producing budget savings through operational efficiencies, all with a focus on customer (public) outcomes and improved service. Quantifiable achievements would include; Designate and decide on areas of Departmental and Ministerial responsibility where no such responsibility is clear or accepted. To then allocate these responsibilities to ensure the desired and clearly stated
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Business Implications Officer

Business Implications Officer How many times does the government make a decision that unduly affects small business? Most people in government have no business experience, and it shows. This is not a criticism, just a fact. Before implementing any new policy, procedure or amendment that affects small business they should run it past a Business Implications Officer, who can look at it from a business persons point of view and identify all implications for paperwork, compliance and training. The officer would then produce an estimation of the additional time input required to comply, and notify the relevant government department. Changes or allowances can then be made before imposing any extra burden onto businesses. The process should take no more that a week or two, depending upon the changes proposed. If the public service attempt to do this themselves then the process will take 2-3 months. It is therefore essential an external business person is engaged when required,
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