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“REALLY HIGH” BY KEVIN LOVE

Kevin Love of NBA, UCLA, and Lake Oswego High fame listed a few things he likes to do when he gets high, what he likes to do when he’s really high, adding more for when he’s REALLY high.
The big man is talking about weed, marijuana, dope, ganja, grass, hippie lettuce, herb, pot, Mary Jane.
That’s what he talking about? I think so.
He’s talking about cannabis, the polite word for polite people who get high on the sly.
They like to say, “Cannabis is legal,” and clean, and far from the grubby days of shaking a baggie out on a tilted Cheech and Chong album cover to separate the stems and seeds that you don’t need.
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GIVING GOOD ADVICE, OR . . . ?

Who reads blogs for good advice?
If you do, is there any follow through?
Asking what to do means there might be a problem.
The biggest problem is when you’re the only one who sees the problem.
Then what?
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OFF THE HOOK IN GOLDEN YEARS?

As the golden years of retirement stretch out before you there are a few things to keep in mind.
Probably more than ten line items, but this is a start.
You don’t have to agree with any of them, but pick and choose in any order.
I’ll start:
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END PRODUCT IS WHAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT, NOT PRACTICE

‘End Product’ is another way of saying, “What have you done lately?”
We pay to go to concerts, games, and races.
We don’t pay to go to practice rooms, weight rooms, or interval track training, the stuff done before the end product.
Buy a ticket for an event and you expect a competent performance?
Sounds reasonable to me.
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HISTORICAL ACCURACY? IMPORTANT, OR NOT

I’m a fan of historical accuracy, of a story that stands up to scrutiny not opinion,
My feeling is that the people involved in historical events deserve the decency of applied history.
How to apply history?
It’s all about the sources.
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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OSCAR GOES TO?

Who deserves the Oscar for the Affordable Care Act? Health insurance used to be simple when I was young. At least it seemed simple. Mom and Dad took me to the doctor when things looked funky, like my collarbone. Things break on kids, like bones when they fly through the air and land awkwardly. Have […]

FUKUSHIMA FEVER OR BEER

That red line aiming for Oregon hit me with a wave of Fukushima Fever. If you don’t live on the Oregon coast, you drive to the Oregon coast. That’s how it works. If you don’t like the drive, you move there. I grew up on the Oregon coast so every time I go to the […]

CDC SAYS OPIOIDS SHOULDN’T BE FIRST CHOICE? THAT HURTS.

Pain relief moves from legal heroin to physical therapy, exercise, and over the counter pills? Who knew? I wrote a post about an author’s reading called BLACK TAR HEROIN, SAM QUINONES, AND DREAMLAND. Sam Quinones showed up in Powell’s City of Books and talked about pill mills supplying zombie customers with their opioid prescriptions; about […]

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BOOMER DENIABILITY: WE DIDN’T LIGHT THE FIRE

We Know Where The Matches Are Though. Believable generational research relies on strong academic studies, insurance statistics, and the federal census. This triumvirate of detailed minutia creates a colorless picture of the past. Instead of men in grey flannel suits, it looks like grey men in flannel, lines of them. Baby Boomer research is the […]

A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make it a song older than your marriage. And no Beatles. This ought to be the common default:

Colin Kaepernick Kneels For Nike Like I Kneel For Nike

    Do I kneel for Nike? I sure do, but it’s more in awe than anything else. Nike is awesome. So is Colin Kaepernick, but I don’t kneel to him.   For some reason the Kaepernick Kneel is an irritant instead of a call to action.   It is a call to action, right […]

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MESA ARIZONA, CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

Where are you right now? Do you wish you were somewhere else? Instead of working on the wish list of where you’d rather be, take a good look around. You may be in the center of the universe, like Mesa Arizona.

LIFE REBOOT IN OREGON STARTS WITH A COLD SHOWER

      Finding water for an Oregon life reboot cold shower is not problem. Fourth biggest river, rains half a year, and this stuff cascading down cliffs. If you need a life reboot, be chill.

HIKING BABY BOOMER PORTLAND, pt. 3

Part One and Part Two. Portland bridges move people over the river. They also create fantastic venues for events. Above is Portland’s Mini Maker Faire from Sunday in OMSI’s parking lot. That’s the Marquam Bridge and I-5 overhead. A beautiful thing about Portland is its availability. I left my driveway at 1:30 and parked on […]

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