Happy 420!!

Good day, good day! Its 4/20 today - worldwide pot appreciation day.

Spent the majority of the day out at a place called Fort Whyte Alive. Its basically an nature interpretation center, a place for people and kids and stuff to take hikes and learn all about different things in regards to the environment and the world we live in. I was with Torte Girl and one of our good friends who brought along her little kid.

It was fun to spend the day running jumping and playing with a little person. We made bannock, hung out in a teepee, had a picnic, played by a river and pretty much just enjoyed the beautiful spring weather we have been having lately.

After that Torte Girl and I went to the legislative grounds where there was a pot rally counting in 4:20 on 4/20. There was a crap load of people and the smoke was thick in the air. It was pretty weird to be in a throng of that many people knowing that every single person was high as a kite. Still, it was amusing.

Anyways...HAPPY 420.

Sit back, relax, play some tunes and smoke a big fat one for me will ya.

Happy 420!!

Smoke em if ya got em.

Wii like to pre-order Wii do!

It is pre-order day for Nintendo's new console, the Wii. After weeks of fear that there wasn't even going to be a pre-order program in place, I finally find myself safe and secure in my apartment with a receipt that says I am to be a proud owner of this bright new shiny system.

*insert sighs of relief here*

Here's a rundown.

• 6:30am alarm goes off.
• Press snooze.
• 6:45am alarm goes off.
• Press snooze.
• 7:ooam alarm goes off.
• Press sno...what the hell? 7:ooam!!?
• Burst out of bed and knock glass off of bed side table spilling warm Pepsi on rug.
• Watch glass land on plate on floor and break into tiny shards of deadly, glittering death traps.
• Laugh.
  
• curse.
  
• laugh again.
  
• be sad because you only have four plates left now.
• Slip on jeans, take pee, scratch bum, brush teeth, wash hands and face.
• Pack bong.
• Smoke bong.
  
• Make noises and silly faces at the Oy. Make fun of him because you have thumbs and he doesn't.
• Pack up X-Box and PS2 into backpack for trade in. Feel a little guilty for abandoning and betraying their trusts. Stroke lovingly and say goodbye.
• Have cigarette on balcony and call taxi because you kept pressing snooze and now cant take the bus.
• pack bong.
• Smoke bong.
• Wait downstairs for taxi.
  
• Excitedly and with great pride and passion explain to the cab driver what exactly a Wii is. Settle on him thinking its like a pinball machine. O_o
• Pay cabbie and hope that the smell of curry, garlic, and falafel doesn't stick to your clothes for the rest of the day.
• check time - 7:45. Doors for pre-orders open at 8:30. time to get coffee still.
• buy coffee, open new pack of smokes, walk to garbage can and throw coffee out.
• Look down at hands and see that you still have cigarette wrapper in one hand and no coffee in the other hand.
• Realize what you just did.
  
• Laugh.
• Curse.
• laugh again.
  
• buy new coffee - don't make eye contact with girl at counter trying to figure out how you just consumed an extra large, steaming hot coffee in 10 seconds.
• meander empty closed up mall to Electronics Boutique. Hope that there aren't any Zombies roaming the halls and think back fondly to great moments from Dead Rising.
• Realize how cool it would actually be and decide that yes, you do wish there were Zombies roaming the mall.
• Realize you don't have a Katana or lead pipe handy so it prolly is better that there aren't any Zombies after all.
• Turn corner and realize that your not such a geek after all. Theres like 40 people in line already!! O_o
• Get in line and grumble that out of 40 people there is not one single girl to look at to help pass the time.
• Eves drop on other peoples conversations in line.
• Realize yet again that that your not such a geek after all - laugh at the people in front of you having a serious debate about who the hottest character from the Final Fantasy series is.
• Realize that your sad because your not in on the conversation.
• Stop laughing and begin questioning how big of a loser you actually might be.
• Grumble that you didn't bring either a book, iPod, or your Nintendo DS.
• Think about porn.
• Suddenly see like 25-30 of the people in front of you walk away cursing and being all disappointed looking.
• Start freaking out cause you assume that EB has sold out of their pre-orders for Wii.
• Discover that all those people were there for the PS3.
• Laugh - make fun of people that wanted to spend $700+ on a console.
• Stop laughing upon realization that you woulda been one of them if you had $700+ to spend.
• Gape in wonder and awe as the sales person tries to explain to one of the people in the line that this wasn't actually a line up for the new Final Fantasy 3 game for the DS. If he wanted one he would have to come back at 10 when the store actually opened.
• Laugh at the guy as he had been waiting in line for over two hours.
• Make mental note to come back later for FF3. Out already? Coooool.
• Finally, my turn. Trade in Xbox, PS2 and say goodbye to them. Thank them for the years of fun. Stroke side of Xbox.
  
• Ignore the smirk on sales persons face.
• Make Pre-order.
• Leave Mall.
• Still no Zombies.
• :(
• See that its raining. Hard.
• Make way to McDonald's.
• Eat hash browns, McGriddle's and Orange Juice and Coffee. Very careful not to throw full coffee away this time.
• Come home. No taxi - took the bus. No cute girls on bus. :(
• The end.

Its crazy that you can only pre-order on one day. Its crazy that you have to be up at the crack of dawn to make it to the store before the pre-orders run out. The PS3 sold out in like 20 seconds after the doors open. They only had like 8 of em in total. The Wii sold out somewhere down the line after me - but was definitely done for before the store normally opens its doors at 10am.

Its crazy...but cool. Kinda hardcore. Its fun that you gotta jump through those hoops if you want a system on launch day. Its like your separating the true geeklings and gamers from the casual geeklings and posers.

Still...I had to get up early on my day off.

Not nice, Mr. Nintendo. Not nice at all. I'm willing to forgive though, cause soon I'll be playing my Wii and waving that funky controller all over the place.

Now if you'll excuse me...I have some broken glass to go clean up.

Nintendo owes me a plate!

Cannabutter.

Wikpedia defines it as thus:

"Cannabutter is an oil/fat/butter based solution which has been infused with cannabinoids. This is achieved by heating the raw cannabis along with the oil or butter and allowing the cannabinoids (THC and others) to be extracted by the fat. The exact procedure for this varies greatly. The equipment necessary for the manufacture of cannabutter can be as simple as a sauce pan and spatula or as complicated as a double-boiler, or crock pot, and cheese cloth and funnel.

Due to its cannabis content, it is illegal in some countries.

Cannabutter is intoxicating but the high from ingested cannabis (like cannabutter or foods containing it) is reported to be somewhat different from that obtained by smoking the plant. Particularly the effects are much slower to begin and last much longer, due to the time it takes to digest the fats, rather than the near instantaneous absorption of smoke in the lungs.

Cannabutter can be used just like butter, or baked into anything that would require butter such as brownies in order to create a tasty and intoxicating treat. Recipes using this butter should avoid high temperatures as this may damage the potency of the butter. The flavor and color of the oil or butter used are changed depending on the method used."

To make some cannabutter:

"Ingredients:
1 ounce cannabis
1 pound butter

Directions:
Using a coffee grinder, or something similar, grind the cannabis into a fine powder. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium-low heat. Stir in the cannabis powder with a wooden spoon. Once the mixture starts to come together, reduce the heat to low. Leave on heat for 15 to 30 minutes, the longer the better, just don’t let the mixture burn! Once it has cooked, strain the mixture, making sure to squeeze all the butter out. You can use those plastic containers that margarine comes in if you have nothing to put your cannabutter in. Pour a little water over the butter once it has hardened and it will last longer."

Then you just bake whatever it is you normally bake...or cook, and sit back and enjoy.

M-e-l-l-o-w. But fun. It dosent really hit you in the head like smoking it does, but rather your body. Very mellow body stone.

There ya have it, Cara. :)

Random...

Its getting cold. Like almost shiver cold. Bye, bye summer. Its not that I hate you, its just that your to damn bright and stifling.
I brought my plants in from the balcony for the season today, so now I gotta find something to put them on so Oy doesn't eat em. Speaking of Oy, the little bugger bit my lip the other day. I didn't bite back...but very seriously considered that as a possibility.

Its fun when your not supposed to know stuff...but you do...and nobody knows you do. Its like a dangerous, drunken, lustful power that you want to drink deeply of even though you know the road could lead to destruction. Or...its not? either way, people are funny.

I'm overwhelmed with the amount of game information flooding the streets right now. What with all the late summer/fall game shows (E3, Pax, TGS, X06) and Christmas coming I guess it reasons to make sense. I guess its just even more exciting as there are three new next gen consoles to play said games on so that doubles the fun factor. Still...not even pixies bearing platters of magic mushrooms whilst flitting about my head has excited me as much as what is coming in the next few months for gamer folk.

I'm in the middle of a shwack of double shifts right now and its killing me. In fact I don't have a single day off until next Friday. Granted there are a few days between now and then that I do only have to work one job for the day - and that in itself is almost like a day off right? Right? Speaking of work - I won the title of best 2nd cook out of all our restaurants in our city. A whole whopping 3 of em. Yes...2nd cook. Not 1st. I wasn't even nominated to win for 1st cook lol. Still, I got a $100 gift certificate for Best Buy outta the deal so that's kinda cool.

My new Bong works freaking amazingly! prolly to good even...but who am I to complain. Every hour or so I find myself needing to 'test' it to make sure that its still functioning as it should. :P

The book I'm reading, The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams, is incredibly awesome and perfect and wonderful and brilliant and astounding all rolled into one. I picked it up on a whim more or less. I saw the cover art and was impressed, read a few reviews and was even more impressed and then found myself one day months later spotting it in a bookstore and picking it up before buying any of the stuff that I had intended on getting. Very glad I did. Its horrific, its full of deities and demons (or what we would call demons at the least) and things that lurk in the night. You get to tour through the darkest levels of hell and the wastelands of what was once our earth. I'm not even halfway through it yet and already I fear I am reading to fast. I want this one to last. Luckily the second book (I believe) is due out on our shores very soon.

And that's that. Currently I am 36% complete on my 42 episode download of Flame Of Recca. Its been going for a day and a half now. I figure by the time I wake up Saturday it should be finished and I can start watching! Been meaning to give this one a look see forever it seems, and finally now it'll be one more I can cross off my list. :)

And that's it.

I have to go now and 'test' my bong agin! Cant be to sure if its still working properly...

A Wizard a Rancor and a Bong -- oh my!

I bought a new bong yesterday, and it smokes like a demon! I've always used smaller mid-size bongs before...so this time I decided to buy a long neck big daddy! So far I'm loving it, and its a welcome addition to the family.

For size reference I've added a Wizard and a Rancor. Obviously its big if it towers over those mighty power horses. :P

Nicotine Patch...

So ya, I'm on the patch.

Three days now. No biggie...not even close to being a non-smoker or able to call myself quit yet...but three days is 75 cigarettes less then what I would have smoked if I wasn't on the patch. Its also almost 35 dollars saved.

wOOt!!

The dreams though...whoa. Sleeping with the patch on has given me some fantastic night time entertainment! Hell...even if you don't smoke you gotta try taking a nap with one of these patch thingies on...! O_o

Last night I fell in love with Poseidon's daughter, who had two lesbian friends that liked to make out in their underwater cave/apartment. Poseidon was none to happy that I was boinking his daughter and chased me all over...however little did he know that I was in possession of a wand (much like Harry Potters wand(at least that's how it looked)) that could very much kick his ass!! So after beating him in combat we had a little heart to heart and I convinced him that I was good for his daughter - and that she was going to teach me how to surf.

Or something like that? Many dreams a long those lines. Its a whole new ballgame with this patch on my shoulder, and for the most part I cant wait to get to sleep at night to see what I am able to conjure up next!

Viva la non-smoking! Or something like that. *g*

The Deathstar.

Stumbled across this pic in an old photo bucket account.

I built this with a good friend of mine in my very first apartment away from home. This woulda been back 12 years or so now. Crazy times. Anyways - yes it was used to smoke herb, and yes I used it many a times over. Triple filtration...electric fish pump powered, hits would be so thick that the smoke looked like mayo in the chamber.

Very high tech. *wink*

I'd explain how it worked...but I think I would confuse even myself in the process. That's a balloon in the big 2L pop bottle...and um...you turn the fish pump on...and it...awww forget it.

we called it the Deathstar. :P

Random Art.

There's a truck load more of some pretty cool photo manipulated artwork here. Just don't ask me what they're talking about. :P

Puff, puff, pass!

Happy 420 day! Smoke em if ya got em!

Bong and pipe at the ready playing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

Solid Snake vs. Sam Fisher?

I have decided that I am gonna ditch everything and spend this weekend parked in my bean bag chair, bong and pipe at the ready playing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

I finally started it last weekend...Got through the first level, but haven't had a chance to touch it since.

So as for Solid Snake (metal Gear) vs. Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell) I am afraid I'm gonna have to give it to Sam Fisher.

True...Snake could prolly kick the snot outta Sam in an all out no holds brawl...He seems the tougher up front of the two, but game wise Splinter Cell has exceeded what Metal Gear originated.

And uhhhh...That's all I have to say about that.

I kinda feel like a pussy who needs a crutch.

Just the idea of quitting cigarettes usually ends up with me puffing back at least a half a pack from the thoughts of such a stressful endeavor.

Today I started the nicotine patch. What bothers me most about this is that I lack the will power or resolve to be able to quit smoking on my own. I kinda feel like a pussy who needs a crutch. However when all is said and done, I'd rather use the patch then continue on smoking and wind up having to speak through one of those electronic voice thingies you press against your neck.

Actually...That would be kinda cool...Well, except for the whole your gonna die real soon part of course.

Anyways, interesting ride this patch. There you are minding your own business going about your daily routine when all of a sudden the patch releases a stream of nicotine into your body. Massive head rush follows with a kind of glazed eye expression on your face...Dizziness ensues and you feel a little like you just inhaled a whole lot of nitrous oxide.

Not a bad thing normally...Unless your in the middle of a very serious discussion at work.

Anywho...It seems to work, haven't had a cig today, and normally I smoke a pack a day. Kinda sad actually...I kinda took delight in the very professional manner in which I could consume a cigarette.

*sighs*

But in the long run just think of all the weed I can buy with the money I save. :P