Cross Another Thing Off The List...

If you're reading this on the day I posted it (January 23) then I'm either getting some important business sorted with GroupieGirl or I'm in the city core getting my hair cut, which I really need to do - and to be honest, I think these sideburns will have to go. The fact my facial hair is naturally a different colour from the rest of my hair is not exactly helping matters, and neither is the Noddy Holder references... and actually, I've been thinking about removing some other hair on my body as well... but enough about that for now!!

So, let's spool back to Monday, and something which I would have blogged about by now were it not for being busy at work and having the emo stuff to write about (long term readers will notice I have a strict policy of one entry per day max, so things have been bunching up a bit...)

Anyway, after work on Monday I headed out to my mate Caffeinehead's house. He's another sensible guy who keeps the Apple Mac faith (I know we get bad press for coming over all smug and fanboy-like, but I'm not like that really, not much...) but he's not exactly computer-literate so sometimes I have to pop over and make sure he's managing OK. And to be honest, sometimes that's a bit of a drag - but I'd not been round for ages and I thought it would be nice to pay him a visit.

Well, it seems he'd bought something new - something a little lower-tech, which he brought out when another of his friends came over. Now, I've "inhaled" in the past, to quote the 42nd American president, but I've never seen an actual bong in use before, so I was quite interested in it - I was intrigued as to how it worked, and what the experience was like. Caffeinehead and his mate were trying the thing out while I was doing stuff on his Mac, and to be honest I think I was getting a little "floaty" just by being in the same room as them due to the second-hand smoke, and I said so. Which lead to me being asked a question which secretly I hoped would be asked - "do you want to have a go?" Shyly, I said "mmm...ok...."

And so I indulged in something which I haven't done since 1995...and, I shall be honest, I actually enjoyed it :) It just seemed right at the time...but I should point out it's not something I shall be making a habit of (my mind's rather screwed up already, thanks, without adding stuff like that to the equation. Plus, I'm rather vehemently anti-smoking and have been ever since I watched Groupie's mum die of lung cancer in 2007) But it was another new experience for me - something I can say I've done. I always say to people "when you're old and in that nursing home, you're going to look back on your life and think of things you haven't done which you wish you had. I would like that list to be as short as possible" and I guess it got a little shorter that day.

Not that I'm advocating getting stoned - like everything else, whether you indulge or not is something you must work out for yourself, and preferably having read up about it beforehand. Anyway, I went for fish and chips afterwards and really enjoyed them, sitting on my sofa in my relaxed state...and then going to bed. I was told I'd probably sleep well that night, but I can't say it was that good - but maybe that was due to all the coffee I'd drank that afternoon. Well, that's always been my drug of choice, hasn't it??

By 'eck, I'm glad my "real-life" friends and family don't know I write this :)

BLACK SABBATH - SWEET LEAF
(from the album "Master Of Reality", 1971)