The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Thomas Ware:

Sharing some of my experience with Ritalin over at Suzie's place:

I was dosed with that crap when I was a ‘hyperactive’, fifties speak for ADD, five year old. Prescribed later in life for over ten years to counteract my narcolopsy, until I figured out it was actually making it worse - it may be funny to watch someone fall asleep while lifting their coffee cup from the table to their lips, it ain’t when it’s you. Falling asleep is a relief compared to the catatonia - try explaining to a cop, a Rez cop no less, that you ran off the road when you swerved to avoid a sand worm straight out of Frank Herbert’s Dune.

No Drugs*. No alcohol*, no caffeine (I’m working on the nicotine thing). Hydrate, green tea, very little if no red meat. Schedule not only sleep but activities for when unable (you have no idea how funny I, personally, find the pajama clad blogger stereotype).

No detraction, Ms Hayden, my uncle had it so bad we (my sons and I, the only caregivers) eventually had to put him in a home (something my children will not, can not, afford to do). I still have some problems - any longer than an hour in a staff meeting listening to some Reichwing administrator blovate starts a catatonia that can take hours to overcome; so to I cannot drive for more than a couple of hours - I've already been run off the road once by a sand worm, not 'gonna go there again. Just sayin', fifteen years aago I found away to get a handle on it without big pharma.

*I do enjoy an occasional toke now and then, and each afternoon my buds' and I meet down at The Group W Bench** for a single pint of Bachelor Bitter. **It's a VFW thing, got nothing to do with and in fact predates Our Mad King George.

We've deployed four AEDs on campus this year - one to the security vehicle and the others in relatively centralized location across 50 sq/acres. We'll also deploy AEDs to each of our outlying centers, five across ten thousand sq/miles, and I am to begin carrying one in my service vehicle. None of it free.

Which begs the question: in our fifty-six year history we've never had a heart attack on campus. Why spend the money? Grant, 'tis better to err on the side of caution, I'd far rather take the five percent chance of it happening than follow NOLA's example of gambling on the five percent chance it wouldn't. But still...

Limited in location, limited in knowledgable users, both to training and location... I guess my concern is we'll have these resources on hand and Murphy's Law will weigh in and we'll experience a fatal simply due to the aforementioned limitations.

Oh well, great piece, and thanks for reminding us not so old farts it's time to start paying attention to our tickers.

Cocaine? What sensible person does cocaine (anymore)?

I do believe the scoop was here, though over the course of a day it's hard to keep track. And to think that when we were kids the notion of a catastrophic event unfolding via text scrolling across a video screen, of obsorbing information in real time, moving from page to page of information in an exponential pursuit of answers, was thought to be fiction.

[my second amendment is behind the seat of the pickup]

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