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not a single one of those overdoses were from weed. it's a well published medical fact: in order to die from weed, you have to smoke 1500 lbs in an hour. i suspect smoke inhalation would take you out well before you could accomplish such a feat. as for considering weed to be a gateway drug, that's been debunked for quite a long time. in fact, the demonization and stigma of weed is linked to more hard drug use than weed itself. for example, the thought that if they were lying about how dangerous weed is, maybe (insert random other drug here) isn't as bad as they say also... i don't mean any of this to endorse getting high. as i said earlier, i barely smoke it at all anymore, don't use other drugs, and the only drinking i do is a few cups of warm sake a couple times/year. i only posted for context.

actually, weed's popularity goes waaaay further back than the 60's. as much as i love benny goodman's other stuff, my favorite weed song is far more recent

what people call "heavy metal" today, is not what we listened to back in the 80's when i was still young and had more energy than i knew what to do with. these days, i seem to gravitate more towards hard rock. one of my favorite bands recently-ish was thundermother: the guitar player, fillippa nassil fired the entire band after a couple of really good records, and got a new line up. they put out a couple good records, then she fired them too. only this time, the band she fires said "eff me? no, eff YOU!!!" they started their own band called "the gems". they're fantastic, and their opening salvo scores a direct hit at thundermother's waterline another really good band was "the amorettes" a scottish band, who also put out several good records. but then they broke up and reformed as "the hot d**n". the music is terrible, i won't subject you to it. if you liked the go-go's, maybe you'd like the hot dam, you can look them up if you want to, but for me,

when it's hot, probably 3-4 bottles of water and 3-4 gatorades

now that it's legal, i rarely blaze up. now that i'm an old guy, it mostly just makes me want to take a nap. i don't need weed for that, i can nap any time, at will. hahahaha when i was a younger man, my buddies and i had a tradition that you couldn't blaze up until you caught a fish over 12". for me, the fun was in being able to tease whoever still hadn't caught one yet. "mmmm boy, this sure is tasty, too bad you can't have none yet..." i don't think it affected my casting any, but it did help me concentrate like all get-out.

definitely not yellow jackets. a yellow jacket looks like this this is also a yellow jacket

ants were in this house before i was. i tried all kinds of stuff. the ants loved all of it. ate the daylights out of what ever i gave 'em, and thrived. this year they were especially bad, so i called an exterminator. also because yellow jackets were living in my front railing. whatever that guy sprayed, there ain't no ants here anymore, for the first time since i moved in.

i always wanted my license but never made it happen, for various reasons. i have been lucky to have ridden in alot of really cool aircraft over the years, starting from a small boy up until now. there have even been a few times when i was allowed to take control for brief periods. the glider was one of the funnest. i was really into fs9 and fsx for years. if the hours i spent with that were real hours, i'd be amazing. ?

very cool! a trip like that is alot of work for a pilot. but being up there, by yourself, seeing this country like that...it must have been incredible, once you had time to digest it. i had a ride in a cub once, a loooong time ago. the idea of taking one 4k+ miles seems amazing to me.

are you saying you flew that cub from alaska to florida at some point? holy cow! how long did that take? isn't the cruise speed about 75 mph? that had to be tricky to navigate all that way vfr. if you had a mind to talk about it, i would like to hear a bit about that journey

that much is true, i ride a motorcycle alot, and i have to tuck mine up into a do-rag to avoid those knots. they don't come out except with scissors

you wanna great elevator joke? next time you're on a crowded elevator with your wife, say to her loud enough for others to hear "i bet a crowded elevator smells different to a midget"

i just went to the barber not that long ago. it was june 2, 2017. this pic is more than a year old, so my hair is longer than this now by about 4" or so

it's a real good day if: 1) i caught at least 1 2) didn't hook myself 3) didn't snag my favorite lure 4) didn't get stung by a wasp, or bit by a snake 5) no ticks

man, there ain't nothing that feels like buying a new set of wheels, whether it's an auto or a bike. that's a real good lookin machine, congrats!

there used to be a mom and pop place on almost every corner, back in the day. i didn't know how good i had it. now they're almost all gone, and i really missed them. i only eat chain pizza when i'm too tired to cook, or go out to pick up. that's rare. the place i miss most, was called gerrardo's. they had the very best pizza in the entire world, no one comes close. ask anyone in northern delaware who was the best pizza, and if they don't say gerrardo's they're lying to you

you guys are way fancier than i am . i put a lb of ground pork and 2 lbs of ground beef in the mixer, and make a half dozen patties. i slather them in bbq sauce, and put them on my gas grill. when they're done, i put a slice of cheez on them, and put them in a bun that's toasted on the inside only. if the burger isn't raw on the inside anymore, it's done. however, when i cook the hot dogs, they have to be black and crunchy

wow, it's cool to know so many others enjoy fishing for these. i catch them mostly on chatterbaits, and square bills and wakebaits. i have caught them on spinnerbaits too

i don't understand why it will take months to repair. florida rebuilt an entire bridge in 4 days last year after a hurricane.

amen brother!!!

anyone else like fishing for them? the local place where i fish for smallmouth is over run with them below the falls. they removed the fish ladder years ago, and they can't get up above them. (thankfully) seems like the smaller ones fight real hard, then lay over. the big ones fight like mike tyson. last year i caught 2 of them about 24" long. i stabbed them in the head with an awl, and threw them in a bag. 3 hours later, i brought them home to give to a neighbor who eats them. i put them on the drive way to hose the slime off of them, and they started flopping about.

i start throwing top water as soon as i walk up on the bank

a great entertainer for sure. i thought she was really cool. but a rocker? i dunno. when i think of rock and roll, tina turner isn't what comes to mind.

i've had that very thing since 2003, because of a surgery. 3 of them, actually. i never thought much of it either. until recently. it's getting worse, it can be fairly uncomfortable anymore, especially if i cough standing up. i can push them back in, like you said (all 3 of them) but they don't stay there more than a few seconds. i'm hoping mine will hang in there till the next time i get laid off, and i will get mine corrected. i'm a sheetmental worker by trade, so lifting heavy things is an all day thing for me.