Saturday Soiree - 2nd August 2025

@Shaz51 please do lol. Love this remote cuppa in tangible ways 🤣🤣

Im currently doing some cycling, thanks to the Sane Tour De Aus! as motivation! Yay! My first 5mins! Oh wait, ive already done 5min!! Yay cos im tired already 😅.

@Cuddlebear tag me anytime in any thread you want to chat about it. Helping others (when im in an energy and mindframe able to) helps me by giving me meaningful purpose, and supports my values of caring and helping others. I know myself how much it can help to have someone to talk to about anything and without fear of judgement or "freaking out".

I have worn a few work hats over the years. A few years ago I moved from Website Development (yeah, the team can hit me up for some forum debugging volunteer hours if they want) into business analysis of IT systems and data in healthcare. For the rest of the year I'll be looking more at the human side of data-entry and definitions/meaning of data pieces (to amke them useful!), rather than the IT-storage-of-data side of things. My coworkers like that I can speak both "business" to the hospital staff, and "techie" to the data developers.

@Shaz51 Those cheeky caterpillars eating your beautiful flowers. Hopefully they have not damaged the plant itself.

Oooh I love the smell of a freshly mowed lawn. Sounds like your hubby has been having a productive Saturday in action.

Well done on cleaning the cupboards but lol on 3 kettles and mixers lol. 😂 It’s so easy to double up isnt it especially if someone gifts them. I live in a small place so wouldn’t have room to store them! Don’t even have a garage lol which is good as it stops me buying things I don’t really need. On the other hand wouldn’t mind some storage space.

@Shaz51 Oooh a nice cuppa. I think I’ll make one to and join you.

Lovely ❤️ @Cuddlebear

still got a lot of my grandmother stuff and my mum's stuff

@AlwaysMyself Oh I really like how you have different areas of IT to work on and in a health care setting. It sounds like the data pieces project is in very safe hands as you are able to communicate and work with a diverse range of stakeholders holders! It’s such an awesome skill to have when in professions like IT. Oh yes SANE does have some IT system gremlins lol! Causing mischief every now and then! What’s a data piece and how can IT make them meaningful and useful? I just love learning new things lol!

Thank you for offering support. I’m honestly here for you too and you can tag me anytime as well. It’s so good to have non judgemental and empathetic people isnt it.

@Shaz51 That’s really special. I have the same as well. Makes me happy when I use them in the kitchen.

@Cuddlebear Data can be anything almost! But what makes it useful is understanding its context and what that means. For example if there is a data field with a Date and Time. What does that mean? What is it the date and time *of*?

Last week I was asked to include in a report the "Emergency Department Admission Date Time". Its a great example because, what is an "admission" at the ED? Its not a term we use (nationally or in my local system). So I chatted to them to find out what they meant from a patient or clinician perspective - the time the patient arrives to the ED? The first time they are given some form of treatment (e.g. painkiller medication, which can be while theyre still in the waiting room), or the time when they get taken to a treatment room? Or did they mean the time if they are moved from ED to be an inpatient?

Part of what i like with my current roles is that in the process I get to learn a lot about how the clinical care works. I learnt a lot about the ED, but I have also learnt a lot about the national standards for quality and safety in hospitals (which unfortunately also means knowing more about what can go wrong too lol)

Hello @AllAboutMissy , @Bec400 , @BlueBay 😊

Yes @AlwaysMyself it is currently too much rain, we are on Floodwatch

Hope my power stays on today. I can't cook on my fire unless I open the glass door and rig up something inside. I have thrown a potato in foil in there before, so I can always do something if I need to.

I am a bit of a bushy so I am prepared, I have my torches and things ready in case of power outage.

The thunder and lightning are pretty bad now.

I also grow native plants for native bees of which I have seen quite a few species in my garden along with european honey bees. I have a huge Teddy Bear bee living in the dirt under my house *they are solitary and live in holes in the ground). I once spent half an hour untangling a bee from a spider web, who went on to survive (at least for a while).

I am very connected to nature and I use it to help with my MH)

I hope you enjoyed your time in the sun @Cuddlebear

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