What went wrong?

20/03/2007

09:03
Been up an hour, having only had seven hours in bed.
Was a wild night, ( weather wise ). Strong wind lashing rain against the windows.
Feeling a little unwell this morning, nothing too bad just feel yeuk.

Not a medical diagnosis, but describes the feeling.
America.

One birth every.................................. 8 seconds


One death every.................................. 12 seconds


One international migrant (net) every............ 27 seconds


Net gain of one person every..................... 12 seconds

SOURCES:
http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/

Drugs Most Harmful Effects

Alcohol
Liver damage, birth defects, kills brain cells, intoxication, can induce violent behaviour
Addiction: As addictive as cocaine!
Overdose: Possible.
Deaths/year (U.S.): 100,000 (Not counting drunk driving or crimes caused while intoxicated.)



Tobacco
Lung, throat, and mouth cancer, emphysema, heart damage, premature aging of skin, underdeveloped newborn babies.
Addiction: As addicting as heroin or cocaine!
Overdose: Possible, but extremely unlikely.
Deaths/year (U.S.): 400,000



Marijuana
Slight chance of bronchitis in some users.
Possible minor sperm count reduction, but unproven.
Lung cancer remotely possible with extremely heavy use, but unproven.
Short-term memory loss only while intoxicated--Not permanent!
Addiction: less addicting than coffee, soda, meat, or sugar!
Overdose: Impossible!
Deaths/year (U.S.): 0 (Zero!)



Prohibitionists claim drugs must be illegal because they harm people.
Why are prohibitionists so concerned about what other people do to themselves?
Why do they feel it is their responsibility and right to control the lifestyles of other adults?


The prohibitionists tell stories of people who hurt themselves with illegal drugs. So what?


For every one person who has been harmed with illegal drugs, there are dozens of people who have used illegal drugs and were not harmed.


For every one person who has been harmed by illegal drugs, there are 1,000 people who harm/kill themselves by deliberately choosing these harmful lifestyles...



Being overweight
Smoking cigarettes
Watching too much TV
Eating high-fat/high-cholesterol diets
Eating too much meat
Participating in dangerous sports/activities
Drinking alcohol
Eating too much sugar
Eating too few fruits/vegetables
Drinking too much coffee
Getting little/no exercise






She frequently questioned what she had done to deserve the punishment of being mentally ill, and why she had to take drugs the rest of her life just to be "normal" like everyone else.
Read more at.
http://www.catchingadarkness.com/essay7.html

Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.

I’m without a job.
This doesn’t mean I’m idle. It just means I spend my time doing what I freely choose to do instead of what others would have me do. I require this level of flexibility to do my best work.

Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy.

All you really need is the courage to be yourself.


Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do.
The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world.

Remember that without goals even if you work hard you are like a ship without a rudder.

Living consciously requires keeping yourself centred in the present moment,


which is actually the most secure, safe, protected place for you to be,


free of regrets about past or future.

As you can guess I’ve spent most of the day simply surfing, mainly at random but with an underlying thread of gathering information about Blogging and keeping myself amused with other sites along the way.
I care not for the destination but enjoy the travelling.

Let circumstances dictate your priorities; let priorities determine your actions.

Failure can be productive, but only if we do not focus on it as an unproductive result.
Do not ask the question "Why have I failed?", but rather "What have I done?"

"There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland), they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train).


The economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.'


The logician says, 'No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.'


The mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown,'


and this is funny because economists are not real scientists


and because logicians think more clearly,

but mathematicians are best."

All nature is a circle of moods and you are a part of nature and so, like the tides, your moods will rise; your moods will fall.

Hard work spotlights the character of people:

some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
Sam Ewing

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.”
John Andrew Holmes

Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile. And treasure it.”
Christine M. Huppert

One for the young uns.

http://www.crayola.com/ECE/index.cfm

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

- Theodore Sturgeon

"The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper pictures of the garbage." - George Carlin

"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you always do what you have always done then you'll always have what you've already got." - Unknown

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

-Elbert Hubbard

"Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare or well done."

-Ernie Kovacs

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Always drink up-stream from the herd.
More at http://web.mit.edu/rdd/www/quotes.html


Another day passed without even a thought of doing course work, the idea of spreadsheets today didn’t appeal.