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God rest ye, Mr Never Gets Sleep!

Granted, I am in the same boat as you as of late....it's been 11 days since my second Ibogaine session, and I haven't done Kratom since :D Iboga doesn't work quite as well on Kratom as it does on straightforward opioids, due to Kratom's whorish nature on the receptors, but so far so good....someday once I get my brain back (and sleep) I'll write a trip report on my two soul searching Ibogaine sessions within 6 weeks...amaaaazing stuff, one of the most amazing drugs out there...

But anyways, I've been getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night post Iboga, which is par for the course, but it does get taxing. I've been making good use of it however (usually)....any other astronomy dorks in PD? Last night Mars was at opposition to the earth...for astronomy dweebs this means it was "in line" with the sun and earth...for astrology dimwits this means...I dunno, that you should pick a worldview that doesn't pigeonhole folks on what wretched day they were born? ;)
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So, Mars will be at it's brightest in a few more days, the closest it has been to earth in 6 years. Last night I took out my trusty 8" Newtonian reflector, the same one I ground the primary mirror for from scratch 20 some odd years ago with my dad...took almost a year, scrubbing with decreasing grit and measuring it's parabola with lasers and mirrors. We got it far better than any commercial mirror, and it works a treat. Last night Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn looked AMAZING, Saturn especially, as those rings never get old. Truly otherworldly, har har har. Got some Venus in before sunrise this morning too. Not bad, 4 planets in one night...going for Neptune later in the week...it's 8 magnitude self is hard to pin down, but will be helped along by it's location..

And we've got a lunar eclipse next week! Woo hoo! Pretty exciting stuff. For good measure got some deep sky viewing in last night too....gazing upon other galaxies really gives the brain food for thought, even when not in the crazed post Iboga state, and free from the green leash that is Kratom!

So I got about 2 hours of sleep ....gonna plow my expanded garden space today, which should bump our production up to a total of about 15-18 tons...lotta lotta work! But being as sleep deprived as I am, I took 600 mg of adrafanil as the sun dragged it's lazy ass up....strangely, it woke up at right around dawn, WTF?! Never taken adrafanil before, but my stim collection has been robbed of everything but oddities, like 4-MAR, etc, and not about to go there! Modafanil never did much unless I was seriously sleep deprived....which I am today, so let's hope adrafanil can at least pull it's weight.....weight which will get less and less as it is metabolized into modafanil (yay) and adrafanilic acid (boo)....only 5 more ewes left to birth, so lamb watch will be over soon, thank the heavens (aforementioned planets included).....A paddock full of lambs is an adorable thing, even when most of them are destined for the slaughterhouse. Our thirty acres of pasture is starting to green up finally, so everybody will soon be out grazing 24/7, a beautiful thing indeed!

Damn, the bastards at Sea World apparently won out yesterday against the bill banning the captivity of Orcas. Fuck that, no aquatic mammals as majestic and fiercely intelligent as they are should be subjected to such, let alone performing the stupid tricks they do for the dolts attached to such a travesty. Fuck Sea World...royally fuck Sea World :!

Edit- so you've made the switch to ecigs Knowing Better and Better? How they treating you? What model and approach you trying? And flavor and concentration? And height, weight, birth, and social security number? ;)

Errol Morris, the father of our Hammilton Morris, has a new documentary out on Donald Rumsfeld. Excited to see it, he is a brilliant director, and Rumsfeld an unrelenting idiot. Should be good stuff....
 
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^Why are orcas exceptional in terms of being kept in human captivity? Like, get over it people. I think the marine-life awareness seaworld raises compensates for the misery of a few animals. That's just IMO.

I'm totally ignorant on the astronomy stuff, I'll haveta check out the eclipse though, I always try to catch those.

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God rest ye, Mr Never Gets Sleep!

Totally got 9+ hours per day the last few days, maybe 10, I wake up and then take a one or two hour nap, then I have a good chance of remembering a dream from the nap time. Just pointless tonight given my drinking, and besides, so much anxiety-mediated-loss-of-sanity these last few days, I don't really care what the cost is to be normal. Had a lovely walk yesterday night, quasi-summer weather, went to local downtown & uni for the first time in months, plants and buildings were so pretty. And they have lights on all the trees.
 
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Check out my edit for ecig questions. And get more batteries. I have 5...but I use a $18 battery that I view as virtually disposable, as I wreck and lose them constantly on the farm. They work great though...1100 maH, and the charge lasts all day, even with my chain vaping. They are called the kGO, an eGO knockoff....

Why are Orcas exceptional in terms of human captivity? Let's see.....they have a natural roaming range orders of magnitude greater than any other animal kept in captivity, an intelligence far greater than any other zoo bound mammal, they naturally live in pods and have a VERY strong family mentality and are incredibly social, and they obviously do not like and do not respond well to captivity.....I could go on and on but those points alone are enough to drive it home. Get over it? I will not! What marine mammal awareness do they bring to the public? That they are cute and can do degrading tricks? It's wrong, and I'll gladly continue to argue this position! (after my plowing is done, I'm dilly dallying the morning away, gotta get to it!) I'm gonna wager you are biased by your location and intrinsic nihilism ;)

But seriously, what are the benefits of torturing them so, besides entertaining morons that get the same "entertainment" from watching "Keeping up with the Kardashians" or whatever the fuck? It's not as if they are endangered and we are breeding them. The fact that they use entire oceans as their home in tightly bound family units, don't respond well to being kept in a goddamn swimming pool performing silly tricks, and are smart as fuck nullifies any pro captivity argument. IMO of course ;)

Good work on the sleep. Now, you must know naps don't provide the cycles of sleep you need, yeah? My apologies for coming off as a patronizing and lecturing father. I may be the first two at times, but I'm not that old....at least I don't think I am! :D
 
I'd love to hear about your iboga experiences. I am doing ibogaine myself at the end of the month, for the first time. Going to try to interrupt this addiction. Hopefully I can taper down first and get a bit into withdrawal, I feel that it will be more effective if I do. I'm quite nervous about it, it sounds like such an intense experience. How long does it last before you're back to being able to function?
 
amani said:
How they treating you? And flavor and concentration? And height, weight?

Well, my nicotine expenditures are greatly reduced. Menthol, 11mg. 5'11", 128lbs.

tadine said:
I'm gonna wager you are biased by your location and intrinsic nihilism

Pretty much (not that I go there). I don't care any more than I do about keeping any other animal in a zoo, which is to say, barely. My distaste for self-loathing humans/animal rights activists leaves me apathetic by default to these sorts of things.

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performing the stupid tricks

Pfft...Power clearly doesn't get somebody off.


P.S. It seems the local wysteria are in bloom. To celebrate, lemme repost the haiku I wrote on/for my birthday in 2013:

Another year passed
wysteria hangs above
pressing down on me
 
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Ah, I love wisteria... there are some Wisteria plants near my house and when they're in bloom the air in my yard is filled with wisteria scent. I don't think they're blooming here yet but I'm at a different micro-climate, at 2500 feet up the mountainside. Things bloom a little later here.

As for Sea World, I guess count me as a bleeding heart animal rights person, I don't go crazy but I do think that keeping whales and dolphins in captivity is fucked up. They're extremely intelligent creatures that are clearly self-aware and loving and to me it's about as bad as keeping humans in captivity... I can't ignore that and pretend Sea World is okay. Sea World has done a few things to try to put out the image that they are helping the sea creatures but as far as I'm concerned it's just for PR, any help they do is offset by the fact that they enslave intelligent creatures and is done much more effectively by other groups.
 
Wow, I couldnt get drunk & high today as I had planned and that made me so angry and frustrated lol.. i dont know if its the intoxication or just that something fun I had planned got fucked but I dont want to feel like that if I cant get high haha. Well, its going to feel even better tomorrow to smoke a bowl, eat well and open a bottle of Shiraz
 
where is the line to be drawn, though?

is it okay to keep some animals in captivity, but not others?

Good question. I'd say in the cases where they are critically endangered and captive breeding gives them a hope of survival (which has happened a number of times, successfully), it's warranted. Incidentally, I think zoos are sad and I don't go to them (though I have as a kid). I just don't think anything gives us the right to keep animals captive and basically whored out so people can ooh and aah at them. To me it's just common sense, it's not some sort of activism or anything. It's just cruel and arbitrary. It's an opinion I have, I don't go around being an activist about it.
 
Yeah sometimes my cats want to get out but we have coyotes and neighborhood gods, one of which tries to break my doors down almost every day to get at my cats. Last summer I was letting them out with supervision but one of my cats got sick because she was eating every plant she saw, actually she had to go to the vet and get treated or she would have likely died. And my cats are very happy and loving, so I do feel bad but I don't consider it the same thing. I'm pretty sure zoo animals are not in the same situation as my cats.
 
I keep my cat Charlie indoors too and plan to keep it that way. There's lots of stray dogs in the neighbourhood and some of them are quite violent, even seen someone being viciously attacked by one once, luckily they managed to get them off and they didn't get any sort of disease from the bites. Plus, indoor cats have an average lifespan double that of outdoor cats FWIW so.. we're doing them a favour I'd say, just make sure they have plenty of entertainment and care indoors, that's key :)
 
Yeah I am obsessed with my cats, they want to snuggle with me so much that I sacrifice my back for it, right now one is snuggling in my lap and I have to lean forward slightly to type, I work from home (am right now) and almost every day by the end of the work day my back is killing me. Oh look, now they're both snuggling on my lap at the same time, partially overlapped. :D <3
 
i feel like my cat loves being an indoor cat. he got out once when the maids were cleaning my place and he just sat by the door until i got back home, so i don't think he has any big desire to wander around and explore. indoor cats live longer and healthier lives in general than indoor/outdoor or outdoor only cats. most veterinarians recommend you keep cats indoors all the time.

there's mean stray cats in my neighborhood that fight over territory and stuff, i hear them going nuts and fighting sometimes at night. i wouldn't want my little guy to get mixed up in anything like that
 
Yeah for real. One of my cats was a stray and she came to us when she was very pregnant for help, and then wanted to stay with us, she has always wanted to go outside though. But we moved across the country and I think she doesn't have a sense for what's safe to eat here because she's the one who nearly killed herself eating random plants. My other cat is her son and until last year he was freaked out by outside. But all of a sudden he started wanting to get out. But either way when they get out they just hang around with me... unless they see a small animal or something, then they go running off. One time my boy cat got out and chased after an animal and stayed out ALL night, I stayed up looking for him the whole time, there were coyotes all around coming closer and closer all night, it scared me so bad. At the crack of dawn he came walking up to the door and knocked to get in.
 
It's good to see you post jesusgreen. Hope all is well with you.

Theres no chance in hell i'd let my cat outside if I had one. I live in a part of the city where pit bulls are 'trendy' and it's really dumb if you ask me. Especially because a lot of the people are raising them to be guard dogs while simultaneously going, 'pit bulls have a bad reputation if they're raised nicely they'll be nice.'

that being said, my brother has a pit bull named bella and I love her for the companion that she is, gladly she doesn't live in the city. My cat lives at my good friend's house and my friend always keeps it inside because letting it out would be risking its life.

xammy, don't let yourself be too dependent on getting high to have fun. I noticed a similar thing happening when I was doing coke at shows every weekend then I went to some random show and didn't have any and was bored. I realized then that it really shouldn't be like that. I think since then i've been able to avoid coke addiction simply by not letting myself get anywhere near that point again. drinking and smoking is way easier to manage though. I can get why you wanna get stoned after a week of sobriety tbh. I haven't been sober from weed in a long time lol. I honestly think constantly subjecting my body to cannabinoids does have its health benefits though.
 
I still smoke almost every day, I don't smoke 24/7 anymore though, I smoke at the end of the day, never early anymore. I just smoked a little now because I am going to be doing art, but normally I don't smoke til 9 or so. I felt that the 24/7 thing I did for many, many years grew to be quite negative to me, it's much healthier when you're mostly sober.
 
where is the line to be drawn, though?

is it okay to keep some animals in captivity, but not others?

Personally I think the line should be drawn at those that have a history of domesticity, or those that are endangered and being bred. Zoos are horrific....

Never- I guess I am a bit of a misanthrope, but I view Homo sapiens as one of the least interesting and most distasteful creatures this fine earth has produced. We have our redeeming qualities, ie empathy, love, fine art, etc, but generally we are A cancerous scourge that has taken the reigns of this planet and raped it for our ever unsatisfiable demands. A bit misanthropic is maybe an understatement:) I find certain individuals fascinating, and those that can express a black box ping of the human condition or recognize the beauty and tragedy of existence redeeming. But abusing the fuck out of other creatures for our entertainment is just one of many sickening traits I despise in "us"...

That being said, I raise and kill hundreds of animals a year for food, for a living. I see no wrong in this....they are various species that have been domesticated for thousands of years, get treated very well, and provide healthy ethically raised food for many. I feel no guilt about this, and this isn't just justification. It makes sense, and it's my one man war against factory farming and unhealthy food.

Re radiohead- love em. In rainbows was slow to grow on me but it is great ....reckoner? <3 all I need? <3 Oh man, I saw them at the Gorge in WA state, a beautiful desert and Columbia river gorge backdrop....one of the best shows I've ever seen...June 23, early 2000's...amnesiac tour...I was high on IV heroin and crystal meth, and LSD....but it was an amazing show regardless, ive got the bootlegs to prove it! ;) little did I know my freedom would be taken away shortly thereafter, doors kicked in, my lab and "life's work" (haha, at least a that point it was! :D) taken, and years of hell to follow. Oh well, it was a great show!
 
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