Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4th September, 2020

4th September, 2020.

Did I ever mention I suffer with depression?

I suffer with depression: usually, something that I cope with, with medication.

The recent funding decision, going against me?

Was definitely a blow.

I have to say, the one thing that does help?

Is quickly admitting I’m struggling: that two years on the dole, and no apparently way out at the moment?

Is getting me down.

Billie Piper’s Because We Want To banging around my head?

Isn’t necessarily helpful!

One bit of advise I do know I’ve found helpful?

Is the old saw we hear at AA meetings: ‘one day at a time.’

Frankly?

I’ve an episode of The Mandalorian, to watch: as it’s Friday?

That gives me something to look forward to.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3-9-2020: Charlie Sheen

3rd September, 2020

Right … 

That’s that idea put paid too!

If you recall?   I’d been trying to get hold of funding to buy a laptop?   So I could do a European Computer Driving license course?

I got turned down by the Shaw Trust, the people who run the Work and Health Programme I’m on.

They can only buy one if I get a conditional job offer.

So … ?

I did a little research: and found I could possibly get help from what’s called the Flexible Support Fund.

Something that I usually access with help from my Job Centre case worker, and that usually pays for fares to interviews.

So I asked the Job Centre about help.

In theory?

According to them … ?

I could get help in the form of a budget advance.

Which wouldn’t cover the costs … and is something I’d rather save for emergencies.

I could possibly have put in for help from the Flexible Support Fund … 

Except — wouldn’t you know it — for two facts.

One?   It can only really be used if I have a conditional job offer.

And two … ?

I can’t use it … as I’m on the Shaw Trust’s Work and Health Programme, and help like that is supposed to come from them.

Ever get the feeling you’ve been had … ?

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 2nd September, 2020.

2nd September, 2020.

Right … 

It’s official: I have another meeting, today.

With my temporary case worker* at the Job Centre: as my regular case worker is on holiday.

I messaged them, yesterday, to find out more about a Department of Work and Pensions scheme called the Flexible Support Fund.

That — in theory — I could use to by a laptop.

I can also see if putting in some sort of complaint about the Shaw Trust would be appropriate.

Or doable … 

We’ll just have to see.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1st September, 2020

1st September, 2020.

Right … 

I’ve officially got another phone meeting, today: with my Shaw Trust case worker.

The people running the Work and Health programme for the Job Centre, in other words.

Given the funding situation?

I think I’m going to want a word … 

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One thing I do know … ?

Is that — apparently — the NHS have started a programme for those of us with type two diabetes.

It’s a series of soups and shakes designed to help those of us who have it — and who are overweight — lose weight: and hopefully put the condition into remission.

It sound similar to something I tried in my early twenties.

It worked, then.

But I’m very aware that it would be a lot more difficult, now.

I’ve some thirty years worth of bad habits built up, since then.

We’d have to see what happens.

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Ever heard of Mr Sin … ?

The character was a robot in Dr Who story, The Talons of Weng Chiang: and was a robot … with the brains of a pig.

It turns out science is imitating art, again.

Tesla boss, Elon Musk is developing what he calls his Neuralink: a brain-computer interface.

Personally, I’m thinking he’s been inspired by something similar in the Culture novels of Iain M. Banks.

The reason I mention Mr Sin … ?

Is that it seems Elon’s used a pig: as an experimental subject for one of his Neuralink chips.

Apparently the pig’s called Gertrude.

Rather than Mrs Sin … 

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