law of unintended consequences New Years edition

If you have read my blog for a while you might realize that I have ADD.  If you are following along just fine you might have ADD as well.  Of course, it could also be that my medication is working.  It's not working today due to New Years.  See we are changing insurance and the new copays are lower on my medication.  I still have some, but I'm trying to wait till next year to save some money.  I'm sure that was an unintended consequence of switching insurance.

This is especially true since I get my insurance from work and I just spent an hour or so of work time looking for information about how the moon is leaving the earth's orbit because it came up on Google news.  The internet is frustrating on this point.  You can easily find out that the moon is moving away from the earth at 1.6 inches a year, but I can't find anywhere that mentions how much this increases from year to year.  Since gravity gets weaker as distance increases this 1.6 inches should be an exponential increase instead of a linear one.  In other words the 1.6 inches this year should be 1.600000000000001 next year and 1.600000000000003 the next  and so on.  My great *10^34 grandchildren need to be ready.  Did I mention the ADD?

Here is another example of  an unintended consequence.  My wife's family has decided to have a weight loss contest starting tomorrow.  Everyone who is participating is supposed to bring $10 to the reunion in March and see who has lost the most.  The unintended consequence of this is that I have been eating everything I can since I heard about it just to weigh more before I start loosing.  That way the first few pounds are that much easier.  Cheating?  I haven't seen any real rules yet so that makes it hard to cheat.  Definitely an unintended consequence.

By the way Happy New Year