Hello All,

I suffered a massive heart attack last Thursday (they call the type I had called a widowmaker) and spent four days in the hospital. Luckily, no damage to my heart but I will be undergoing a triple bypass surgery sometime within the next three months due to three blockages in my heart. I have to be careful with stress levels lest I have another heart attack that will kill me though I'm sure Wilfred and Bjorn would celebrate if I dropped dead.

-- Sean

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Go on 'NOT THE MOD'...make a joke now, ya bastard!

McDoob
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Hello Shaun,

03 Apr 22 21:26, you wrote to me:

Go on 'NOT THE MOD'...make a joke now, ya bastard!

I don't need to make any jokes. We have enough fools in here to do it for me.

-- Sean

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Hello Shaun,

03 Apr 22 21:26, you wrote to me:

Go on 'NOT THE MOD'...make a joke now, ya bastard!

I don't need to make any jokes. We have enough fools in here to do it
for me.

To be clear, that message wasn't intended for you...I screwed up...again...

McDoob
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Hello Sean!

03 Apr 22 20:27, you wrote to All:

Luckily, no damage to my heart but I will be undergoing a triple
bypass surgery sometime within the next three months due to three

Get well soon.

Karel

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Hello Karel,

04 Apr 22 08:50, you wrote to me:

Get well soon.

Thank you. It's not going to be easy but I am making some huge changes in my life to try to avoid having another heart attack.

-- Sean

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Hello Sean!

Sunday April 03 2022 20:27, you wrote to All:

Hello All,

I suffered a massive heart attack last Thursday (they call the type I
had called a widowmaker) and spent four days in the hospital.
Luckily, no damage to my heart but I will be undergoing a triple
bypass surgery sometime within the next three months due to three
blockages in my heart. I have to be careful with stress levels lest I
have another heart attack that will kill me though I'm sure Wilfred
and Bjorn would celebrate if I dropped dead.

You need to do light exercise - suggest walking on the spot when at then keyboard.

No it is not the walking, it's the fixing the typo's :)

Get better, take it easy and ignore the crap !

I have had two batches of stents a 4 and a 3 the last one over 10 years ago. Yes they wanted to opened me up but I suggested that as I suffer from a painful
back from time to time that stents was the way to go unless they had a good reason - they did not, but I was warned that after the last set it would be a no option situation so I am not doing a jogging or 10 km running.

Mind you I wasn't doing so before, but now drink a glass of red wine with my evening meal at least 3 times a week with the occasional swap to white as fish really does not taste so good with the red.

Vincent

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Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

You need to do light exercise - suggest walking on the spot when at
then keyboard.

Back in 2016, I worked in an office where treadmill desks were a thing -
in an office in Boston, there was a line of them looking out over the river.

People called them "zombie desks", because you sort of shambled at a slow speed while conferenced in and not paying attention to what's around you.


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Hello Kurt!

Tuesday April 05 2022 08:38, you wrote to me:

Vincent Coen wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

You need to do light exercise - suggest walking on the spot when
at then keyboard.

Back in 2016, I worked in an office where treadmill desks were a thing
- in an office in Boston, there was a line of them looking out over
the river.

People called them "zombie desks", because you sort of shambled at a
slow speed while conferenced in and not paying attention to what's
around you.

In the US, that I can easily believe and as a programmer I could see how more efficient you could be programming - or at least making more mistakes :)

I do seem to recall that some companies even did hot desking? in the UK but I think that they had chairs and no never came across it as about that time I
was a commercial pilot, with only the occasional bout for programming or in those days Test management when not on schedules.
The change was a nice break.

My back hurts thinking about doing that :(


Vincent

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Hello Kurt,

05 Apr 22 08:38, you wrote to Vincent Coen:

People called them "zombie desks", because you sort of shambled at a
slow speed while conferenced in and not paying attention to what's
around you.

I want to get one of those devices that allow me to pedal like on a stationary bike while sitting at my desk. That would be some very good exercise.

-- Sean

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Vincent Coen wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I do seem to recall that some companies even did hot desking? in the UK but I think that they had chairs and no never came across it as about
that time I was a commercial pilot, with only the occasional bout for programming or in those days Test management when not on schedules.
The change was a nice break.

With hybrid remote offices, hot desking makes sense. If you have a
percentage of your workforce working remotely at any time, you can shrink
your office footprint commensurately.

Come in, pick a desk -- or reserve a desk before you come in online.

The problems arise when you have someone who has their potted plants,
pictures of their cats, pictures of their kids, *their* personal laser
printer so they don't need to walk 20 feet to the shared printer, and so on
- you end up with a whole office that rotates in and out around them.

I worked at a company that ramped up their VPN solution and offered remote work. Part of the deal was that you had to give up your desk space. Out of
100 users, 90 desks went back to people who needed to be onsite, and the
other 10 were turned into hot desks for remote workers to use when they came into the office. It worked out well, as we'd just started rolling out Skype for Business phones, and people were reachable by their desk phone numbers wherever they were.

At another branch, it failed miserably because the users wanted "their"
desks waiting for them when they came into the office.

Mind you, these were in two of the most impacted and costly real estate
areas - San Jose and San Francisco.

Post-covid, I'm not sure how hot-desking will fly, unless you have stringent cleaning protocols.




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