Suppose y’all are settling in for the night. Same.
Just finished a slice of key lime pie- at this burn rate I think we have enough pie for us to have a slice after dinner for the next three nights. I’m just throwing that out there so that you all can marvel at my supernatural self control, because I could eat that entire thing in one setting and then be ill for the next 12 hours and NOT REGRET IT AT ALL. If you have ever heard anyone talk up the Rock Springs Cafe pies and thought “they can’t be all that” well I am here to tell you that yes, they in fact are all that.
Dinner was open faced roast beef sandwiches- found a sale on that shredded beef stuff at Fry’s which is the local Kroger affiliate, had everything else in stock, and Joelle is in watching a movie called Anatomy of a Fall. I’m relieved that we are to the point that I do not need to buy a bunch of stuff every time I cook- the pantry is pretty much stocked, so I can get in and out of the grocery store under 20 bucks.
Tomorrow Joelle and I are doing a deep clean of the house and looking at paint colors.
Went to a dispensary to check things out and maybe pick something out for myself, and the young fellow took my id and asked me what I had in mind and I asked him if he had anything that would “make me feel 21 and skinny.” Without missing a beat he looked me directly in the eyes and said:
“We don’t sell cocaine.”
I got the giggles at a dispensary without having to even use any of the product.
The dispensaries just piss me off for two real reasons. One, when I grew up you had to spend an hour in some weird dude’s basement watching Faces of Death or watching them play shitty video games for an hour before he would sell you an overpriced eighth full of stems and seeds (that would never fucking grow no matter how hard you tried) and now you walk in and they have like 50000 varieties in every possible way to consume other than suppositories and it’s legal.
I’m kidding, that doesn’t piss me off at all. It’s awesome. It’s safe, affordable, regulated, and no one is getting fucking shot in the parking lots.
But what really does piss me off is that for at least the last ten years some Democrat in WV has introduced a bill to legalize weed and every year it gets shot down. Weed grows fucking wild in WV- when I was in the National Guard I would earn money in the summer by going on Weed Eradication Duty. We are perfectly located in between major metro markets like Baltimore and DC and Pittsburgh and Cleveland, and weed consumption goes hand in hand with the legions of mountain bikers and river rafters and hikers who come here every year.
We could have done so much with that money, and maybe we wouldn’t have so many dead people who turned to pills to manage pain when other more effective options are out there. Just a fucking tragedy.