I think I've figured out what initiative is.

Initiative is the purpose that you give yourself where you decide what you're thinking about is important enough that it needs to be done.

It might be done wrong, but it'll still be done.

That feeling of willingness to do stuff is initiative.

Yes, Google Chrome is lightning fast. Yes, it is amazingly stable, fun, and has games and such it installs instantly. Still, I will not be using it except in very specific occasions ( Read more... )

And thus it was that at 3 in the morning, a lone, imaginary voice piped up to say, "Go to bed, idiot."

The ultimate gaming controller!

So, does modeling brainwave patterns produce behavioral and psychological results?

How long before this technology is considered such a part of your basic working environment, it's taught in grade school? How long before that will kids be mimicking each other's brainwave patterns for fun?

I went to sleep at 10pm and awoke at 11pm, unable to sleep. No REM sleep at all, just BOOM, awake. Obviously, this isn't good. Apparently Strattera is not the medication for me if this is what it's doing. Mind you, this is on 50mg (two 25mg capsules ( Read more... )

1) I'm flea bombing today and the house isn't ready.
2) Sweetie isn't here to help out or to calm me down.
3) I got three hours of sleep last night.

Ergo - Things aren't good right now.

PS:
4) I'm hysterical part of the time.
I don't know if this last part is implied or not by the previous three, but...
well...

She's gone to Florida for a three-week training session. Last time she did this it wasn't a good thing, and Mom had to come over and kick me into shape after the first week. Mom is now in Ohio with my brother, his wife and their kids, so that's not an option ( Read more... )

Changing the time I take my medication from evening before bed to morning turns out to be non-trivial. First I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack in another second, then I feel panicky over the slightest things, and now I'm waiting to see what happens next. Sweetie is the only thing in this entire house keeping me from freaking out ( Read more... )

In the list of side effects insomnia is listed, but this is the other way around ( Read more... )

Can't seem to concentrate today. I spent half an hour trying to concentrate on an article about attention.
Couldn't even remember to ask Sweetie for Ginkgo.

Meanwhile, the march toward a future with our Robot Overlords continues. Assuming it isn't already here in the form of handheld games and Netbooks.
Warehouse of the present.

Pictures of the ( Read more... )