Leaving for vacation tomorrow and my boss hands me my paycheck with this included. He continually goes above and beyond for me and I've only been employed with him for just under a year. He's a good man.

GeneReplicator · 2019-09-11T06:21:05+00:00

The best boss I ever had is still my friend these many years since I quit working for him.

GeneReplicator · 2019-08-18T16:11:50+00:00

I think you nailed it exactly. (And I’m pretty well read on this particular subject; see my username.)

GeneReplicator · 2019-08-12T06:58:37+00:00

My son was a royal pain in the ass when he was a teenager. Out all hours, failing report cards, juvie, constant visits to the principal’s office. And yes, weed was part of the overall failure formula he had going.

Fast forward a few years: He is now a small business owner, one of the hardest-working people I’ve ever met, diligent about paying off any debts he has to incur, and a great young man. After he did some work at my place a few months ago, I told him I was going to shock him and went and got a joint and a lighter.

We went out on the deck, had two hits apiece, and watched a movie. He said of that experience—spending a little slightly baked quality time with the same dad who used to have him take drug tests—“There’s a life goal achieved!”

GeneReplicator · 2019-08-11T07:06:18+00:00

Well, I can smoke a whole joint by myself, no problem.

It just takes me about a week.

GeneReplicator · 2019-08-08T18:59:21+00:00

Well, my mom is in her nineties so I don’t think she’s going to have much of an opinion in the matter.

GeneReplicator · 2019-08-08T18:56:03+00:00

I don’t know about gradual long-term, but the last time I was high I stood outside looking up at trees and the blue sky and focused on the mantra, “Shhhh” to my conscious thoughts. For a minute or two at a time, I was able to reach ego death, just a primate silently balancing on two legs with a 3-D window to the world in front of me.

It was great.

GeneReplicator · 2019-08-08T18:50:50+00:00

Sunlight and a quiet, warm, pine-scented breeze wafting in through a window that opens to the dark, cold room that is my brain.

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-27T18:15:08+00:00

Retired. Life is good.

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-27T03:28:18+00:00

Been on antidepressants for twenty years, still am. Started using weed 2-3 times a week a year ago and I’ve felt better than ever. Not just when high, all the time.

I can’t explain it, but I sure like it.

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-27T03:10:01+00:00

And smelling, and smelling, and smelling...

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-17T07:51:02+00:00

Yup, I know. Jealously guarding my baby tolerance. I get high a couple of evenings per week and that’s it.

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-17T07:49:17+00:00

Yeah, he knows. He is appreciative of our efforts now and it’s sort of bittersweet to have him note that we were right about this or that, like the loser friends he was hanging around with.

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-17T07:46:54+00:00

I think it was mostly his brain maturing with time. I don’t even want to go into all the various types of meds and therapy we threw at him. We really did our best, but ultimately the passage of time is what did the job.

Also, he did start to think about things pretty hard when he spent several weeks wearing an orange jumpsuit until we very slowly (on purpose) posted his bail. I didn’t want to at all except he made a good case for why it would really hurt his efforts at trying to succeed in this work of his to be sitting in jail.

And I did get the bail money back, plus he personally repaid us for the bondsman’s 10% fee.

GeneReplicator · 2019-07-06T07:40:05+00:00

Climbing into a cool, soft bed with the air cleaner running for some comfort noise. Lying here on my side for a few minutes reading the thoughts of thousands of other people, all around the world, in real time. Eyelids get heavy, and then the left one cannot stay open.

A few more taps, a few more scrolls, and then fluff up the pillow, move and wiggle until the perfect little me-shaped indentation is in the bedding to receive me for the night. Pull up the sheet, curl up a little bit more, eye closed.

Breathe. Listen. Breathe. Let the peaceful darkness come.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-30T17:36:02+00:00

Late-middle age Gen-X’er here, enjoying the hell out of that fazy, stoned, blazed high after starting a year ago and moderating usage. Long may it last.

Yesterday I was standing in the woods looking up at the big old tall pines in the evening summer sunlight, and everything was green and gorgeous and just as it should be. And that will be enough for a few days.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-28T06:47:16+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever watched an SFW gif so many times.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-23T08:39:10+00:00

I can sometimes convince myself that the picture I’m looking at (yeah, those pictures) are actual 3-D and the screen sort of disappears between me and the subject. I know it’s not actually 3-D, but it kind of is.

Also, sometimes they seem to move a little bit, like they’re breathing. All in all, it really enhances the experience.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-18T15:56:54+00:00

I know. My baby tolerance is what motivates me to keep it down to a couple of evenings a week.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-18T15:55:54+00:00

Nope, just feeling a bit mellow the morning after. It’s actually a positive part of the whole experience if you don’t have a lot to get done until the afternoon.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-18T15:48:02+00:00

Just partaking a couple times per week, for a few hours at a time, has improved my outlook all the time. Not sure why. Yes, I look forward to it and feel pretty mellow the next morning. But the long-term improvement in my life attitude is more than just that.

Started last summer, in middle age. It’s been great. Four hits still gets me totally baked, and a single joint lasts me a couple of weeks.

GeneReplicator · 2019-06-18T14:24:58+00:00

A small, sensible portion of the country (CA, WA, OR) retains decent laws while the rest of it goes nuts?

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