Nothing yet

First day on Concerta. Took as prescribed. One of the possible side-effects is drowsiness? WTF? That is exactly the condition for which I am taking the damn things.

We will see if I can manage to know feel like sleeping from 9 to 11, and 1 to 3 today. Dammit, I would still prefer the provigil based on the drug information. I wonder if the Dr. office can just f'ing lie to the evil insurance [ insert explicative of choice here - I was thinking of using "dildo" just now, but that would be a grave disservice to sex toys everywhere ] and tell them I have the machine and they should give me my Doctor's first choice in drugs. Perhaps if these do not work I can convince my doctor to get things done via social engineering. Hell, it is how I get half of my work done around here.

More later.

He talks a good game

From various news sources - The Bill is stepping down.

He said he plans to give away most of his fortune, leaving only a small portion to his three sons.

The Gates Foundation, with assets of $29-billion (U.S.), has focused on providing health care services and medicine to the poor in Africa and India, but has also been a major benefactor of public schools in the United States.

“I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility — responsibility to give back to society, responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need,” Mr. Gates said.

And apparently he reads Stan Lee. Maybe now that he is the richest man on the planet and will no longer be focus on world domination it is possible that he is will no longer be evil. Although, I do not like to focus on one person for their companies actions, sometimes it is difficult to separate them. But I shall focus on happy thoughts right now, Bill is giving away money to help people. Nothing wrong with that. History will have to judge whether or not his karma is balanced.

Wonders never cease

I should be headed over to jschmidt's right now, but I saw something on the way home, and I needed to mention it.

I saw two Minneapolis cops on Nicollet Mall. But wait, that is not the exciting part. Wait for it... On Segways. Yep. Black and White Segways. Complete with a front pouch thing, and motorcycle-like hard saddle-bags attached to the center piece. About half the bus turned and looked at them.

Very nifty.

Now I have seen police cars, police motorcycles, police helicopters, police planes, police boats, police horses, police bicycles, and now police segways. And of course police on their feet and police dogs, but since the canines are not for transportation I did not put them on the list.