21/22 July
Total Kilometres: 136 kms (84 miles)
Total Kilometres 2018: 3020 kms (1876 miles)
Day 1 – Burma Road to Holbrook (64 kms)
I think my life has been reduced to a Boolean search or two.
I am responsible for helping 100 or so staff members at work navigate our electronic recordkeeping system. It has a very powerful search engine that searches across all folders and files. Yet staff have been by brainwashed by 30 years of Microsoft and want to find records through Directory structures. When I tell them to just run a search, you’d think I’d just told them the world ended. I am constantly amazed at how little life-long officer workers know about Boolean searching. I am constantly explaining the default “AND” search and what that means when you type in a phrase with seven words.
In my life outside of work, the exhaustion that comes with ME/CFS means my days take on the characteristics of a “NOT” or “OR” search. There is no “AND”. I can ride my bike OR clean the house. I can go to work OR have energy on the weekends NOT both. And so it goes.
This weekend I have decided that I will ride my bike. Read more →