The "we did it!!!!" Thread was one of the most entertaining things I've read on BL in a long time.
I'm going to festival in a few months, It'll be my first since 2010. Before that I would go to a few every summer but in recent years have not been able to afford them.
I'm pretty excited to see Phil and Bob again.
Yeah, real life has this funny way of getting in the way of music festivals, and vice versa! The key is to find a balance, of course I know I'm preaching to the choir here.
Nice to meet a fellow Deadhead though. The amount that I love that band cannot be put into words, I mean they are a band beyond description amirite? I was raised on em, my dad saw em at red rocks and followed em around on tour, and let me just say the Chain was left Unbroken and the Love will Not Fade Away :D
Speaking of the Dead, I got to see Bobby and Ratdog do their thing a few weeks ago. Now I've been in the whole "scene" for years and I've seen most of the big jam bands, but never saw any current incarnation of the dead. Seeing Bobby and the boys play their souls out while faced on L is an experience I will take with me for the rest of my life. They played an incredible set...10 minute version of Cassidy, transition to 10 minute version of All Along the Watchtower, transition to 10 minute version of Iko Iko. I was going NUTS. Not only did they do the most beautiful St Stephen I've ever heard, but they followed it up with The Eleven! I had no idea they still did that!
Feeling much better today, gonna drink water and stretch and do yoga and sort of re-align my priorities and chakras before I ingest any drugs. But it is 4th of July so some relaxing must be in order. This is 'Murica, after all. A cookout with some friends sounds pretty nice today. I probably wont ingest any substances, other than weed (heh), maybe a beer or two, and a night time etizolam for sleep. I'm tapering off that shit for good y'all. I took 1mg yesterday and that was it. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel with regards to my benzo dependency, just gotta keep at it. Or keep on truckin', as them dirty hippies would say :D
P.S. thanks BL for doing your thing and talking me through my headspace last night. Getting some sleep really helped restore sanity levels. After four days of more or less receptor saturation with various psys and dissos, sanity is something that doesn't often come quick. But man oh man is the payoff sweet

if you know what you're doing, that is! Which is the whole point of this site, to be a bunch of humans educating each other and sharing our experiences. That's what life is, and it really is beautiful :')