What’s All This Then!

According to reports, not only did the United States warn India about impending attacks on Mumbai but US intelligence also named which buildings were to be the targets. And yet in a recent interview, India’s president Kalam did not blame his government’s lax security for the death of the victims in Mumbai. In true finger-pointing style of a bureaucrat, he said it was the fault of Google for having maps readily available to terrorists. I suppose if Google Earth had not been invented, Mr. Kalam would be blaming AAA for handing out paper maps. Thank goodness cellphones, GPS devices, bullets, guns and an inept government had nothing to do with this tragedy.

Is Google Earth really the weapon of choice among terrorists? If you check out the satellite view around my house, you’ll see a large area under construction — construction was completed in 2002. In front of the plant where I work sits a road that has been there for over 20 years. Google has yet to add it to their maps. Maybe I shouldn’t worry. If our customers and vendors can’t find our building, what chance do terrorists have?

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I am! No, this isn’t about that special blue pill (no need for that … yet). Today was my first visit to a doctor in several years. I had to go. My heartburn was beginning to singe my nose hairs at times. My blood pressure has started surging to dizzying heights all too often … and I do mean dizzying.

When I left the good doctor’s office, I had a bag full of goodies. No candy just a few weeks worth of the purple pill, Nexium, a couple of boxes of Toprol, and a prescription for Sucralfate. Gotta love the Doctors and their pills. His plan is for me to mediate myself for a couple of weeks and see if my peptic ulcer and high blood pressure go away. “Where do you work?” he asked. “RPC”, I replied. “That explains it.” he said and added a few more boxes to my already full bag of pills. It was almost like Trick-Or-Treat except he wasn’t wearing a mask when he gave me the bill and one of the side-effects of the medicine won’t be a sugar rush. Aside from that …

I hate taking pills especially different ones at the same time. Interactions? “If there are any, they should be few,” my doctor said encouragingly. Great! I guess my only alternatives is to put up with that acidic fire that is burning a large hole in my chest. Maybe I can get use to the ringing in my ears that drowns out everything else. Or, when I can hear, maybe it will be ok to look like I’m blushing every time someone says something. Nah, I’ll take my pills. Perhaps it will give me something interesting to blog about — weird hallucinations, growth of a third leg (no need for the blue pill then), you know the usual…

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