I don’t watch Baseball, but good jorb on them.
What’s a “jorb”? 
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Glad to report that the PC’s at the regional office is clean - no malware detected. (we got hit by locky).
Just for kicks I ran malwarebytes’ anti malware scanner on my laptop - found 0 PUPs and no nasties.
And I was active on the internet - but very careful in which sites I visit…
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I accepted a new position and put in my notice today. In two weeks I will no longer have a public facing job! I am excited and scared to start a new position with a new organization. It’s been time for a change and this role is more in line with where I want my career to go. It still doesn’t feel real yet, but it will soon.
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Congrats! Make sure to tell us how the new job is going once you get there. 
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Congrats, and all for the best!
It is nice not to be dealing with the public - the more I read on notalwaysright.com and notalwaysworking.com the more I’m glad for not working in retail… although you will still get “special” users 
You’re right with that it doesn’t feel real - it was also the case with myself after handing in my resignation.
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Thank you Ook! Fortunately, Retail Banking isn’t as bad as pure retail most of the time. Unfortunately, since we deal with peoples finances, it can sometimes be worse; especially if they’ve never been taught how to manage money. There are a few regular customers that I will miss, but there are more that I won’t miss at all.
I don’t think it’ll feel completely real until I hand in my keys in two weeks.
I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea (and apparently a pretty severe case too from the test results). I’ve been sleeping with a CPAP machine for the past week and it’s freaking amazing. I forgot what it’s like to be awake in the morning and have energy. My fiancee is now back to sleeping in the bed with me since I’m not snoring anymore.
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@Force10: Dude, you totally fail at sleep.
(Seriously, good to hear you’ve found a fix. Didn’t you have long-term problems sleeping at all years ago?)
I know what you mean, @Force10 . I was in bed for 10 hrs and always sleepy. Got it under control and I slept 7 hrs and rarely tired.
But I pushed back hard when the doc just defaulted to “Here’s CPAP.” I was able to go with an oral appliance that holds my lower jaw forward. That’s it… whole lot easier to sleep with, maintain, travel with… love it.
YYMV, of course. Lots of different causes, so not everyone can be fixed by the same thing.
Great to hear, @Force10—glad you’re sleeping okay.
I accidentally discovered my own shortcut to sleep about 4 weeks ago, and, fingers crossed, I think I’ve licked my insomnia issues. I’ve been having trouble sleeping for ~5 years now, and I’ve just gotten used to laying down at night and tossing and turning for ~3-4 hours. Ambien sort of helped in that it would make me forget laying down, but I’d wake up feeling dead. Couldn’t figure out what was wrong and just chalked it up to being about to turn 40 and getting old (or at least “old”).
But a few weeks ago, we had a bunch of people on vacation and I had to do several days in a row of early AM work. I had to roll out of bed at 7am and get online immediately, and I ended up being so busy in the AM that I skipped my usual 2 cups of wonderful french press coffee (well “cups,” at least—one full one of these). I had a pounding caffeine headache for two days that I fought off with ibuprofen, but I got four nights of perfect, uninterrupted, head-hit-pillow-immediately-go-unconscious sleep.
After those four days were up, I continued skipping coffee, and I swear, for the past four weeks I’ve slept like I haven’t slept in 10 years. It’s incredible. I’m off coffee forever. The grogginess in the morning still sucks, but this is just…amazing. I can go to bed at 9 or 10pm and fall asleep in minutes. It feels like I’ve suddenly discovered a new mutant superpower—though, honestly, I think I’m more thrilled by this than I would be by being able to fly. Being able to fly is cool and all, but being able to fall asleep instantly? That’s godlike.
PSA: if you just can’t fall asleep, try cutting out caffeine cold turkey. It seems to have worked for me, and it might help you. Mornings aren’t as hard as you might think they would be.
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If I remember right, you’re not really supposed to drink anything with caffeine after about 6 or 7 pm if you want to be able to get to sleep at a good time.
I can attest that cutting out caffeine helps. That and the CPAP machine have helped me a lot, though I found a particular brand of sweet tea that I really like, so that’s what I usually drink if I want something sweet. There are times when I’ll start feeling a bit odd and I’ll realize it’s because I’ve had a lot of tea that particular day. It’s the same kind of effect I’d get before I got diagnosed with sleep apnea and would try taking a B vitamin complex pill to help me stay awake. Didn’t like that feeling, so I stopped trying to compensate for a lack of energy and slep with B vitamins.
My usual routine was to have my coffee first thing in the AM, usually no later than 07:30 or 08:00. Some cursory googling seems to indicate that the effects from caffeine can linger for anywhere from 12-16 hours, which IME rings true, at least for me and my dumb body.
Correlation != causation, I know, and the plural of “anecdote” isn’t “data.” Nonetheless, for me, cutting out all caffeine about a month ago has coincided with me sleeping every night for a month better than I have in 10+ years.
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I quit most caffeine 5 years ago when I kicked the soda habit too. My sleep patterns improved, but I also started working out then. I still had the occasional iced tea, but over time I dialed that back as well, to the point now where a plain unsweetened iced tea makes me twitchy and churns my stomach.
I’ve never been a coffee person/addict, and once I was off the caffeine (which was a fun 6 weeks for my co-workers) and had a few conversations w/ my GP, realized that I had been using caffeine to self-medicate borderline ADHD.
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I drink Dew by the gallon, and usually sleep like the dead.
I went on a CPAP last year, got cancer, lost weight, stopped using the CPAP and gained the weight back but still sleep well again.
OTOH, I’d really like to quick drinking soda, because I know it’s bad for me. I’d like to switch to more coffee.
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That’s almost a motto at my office. Maybe a mantra?
Energy drinks are also loaded with caffeine and other happy-go-lucky substances.
But I digress.
It is weekend, time to relax. Happy happy.
I love coffee. It would be very hard to give up. But I’ve known the semi-waking horror that is not being able to sleep, too, and even for me there’s no contest if that’s the choice.
I may give up habitual coffee for a while just because it’s all so incredibly awful here. Between that and how the office is kept in the mid-60s, I’ve been drinking herbal tea like it’s going out of style.
I hope this movie lives up to the trailer. 
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