Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6th January, 2022.

6th January, 2022.

Yep, I’ve got a blood test, today: after the last set I had, missed something!

Apparently?   It’s tracking both my liver and kidney function.

This will show they’re (comparatively) fine.

Or, at least, what’s going on for them, and what treatment may be needed as a result.

Here’s hoping!

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As an extra point … ?

I had a Reboot your CV course, yesterday: something arranged by the Restart programme I’m on.

I think it was helpful enough for me to make minor improvements to my CV.

I have to admit, though … an hour and a half’s worth of MS teams meeting … ?

Didn’t half drag … !

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JUST as a minor point … ?

You’ve heard of cryptocurrencies, yes?

In case you haven’t, they’re a kind of digital currencies: then — these days — need a lot of computing power in order to run.

Each unit of a cryptocurrency has a digital serial number on something called a block chain: working that serial number out, and verifying it and its owner, and where it is on the chain, is what takes the energy.

The process is called mining, so you know.

There’s been a lot of discussion of that energy usage: especially as, the last I knew, the energy used was roughly equal to Iceland’s annual electricity output.

Something game changing may have happened, though.

As Kosovo banned cryptocurrency mining, yesterday.

Global energy prices — and the blackouts that mining is contributing to — helped make that decision.

Personally … ?

I’m wondering what that will mean for the future of cryptocurrencies: and when or if we’ll start talking about a cryptocurrency bubble.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6th January, 2019.

6th January, 2019.

Thank GOD for that!

I posted the letter!

JUST so you know … ?

I’ve put in for a provisional driving license: to use as ID for job interviews.

Except of course, me being me?   I forgot to sign the bloody form, before I originally sent it off.

Which got sent back to me, on Friday, and reposted, yesterday … 

Oy … 

Veh … !

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I have to admit, this piece floated across my timeline, this morning: catching my attention with it.

The piece tells us that Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, is to delay a vote putting more people onto Universal Credit — the benefit I’m on — for an unspecified amount of time.

Personally?

I’m … mostly grateful to hear that.

I’m very aware — having been receiving it for a few years, now — that it’s means tested … 

But also paid monthly.

For those of us, like me, used to being paid weekly, the monthly paid Universal Credit is awkward to juggle.

Having had a quick look at Jobseeker’s Allowance, the benefit I would have been on, had I not been shifted to UC?

I’m about ten to twenty pounds worse off a month.

And the Housing Benefit component is paid directly to me: rather than directly to my landlords, as had previously been the case.

NOT something I’m comfortable with.

And yes: I’ve a few arrears that need paying.

The initial delay I faced, in receiving it, when I left the Brentwood branch of KFC?   Didn’t help.

So, seeing the delay is in place?

Is interesting.

But I can’t help think that improvements need doing … 

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