dreams of stretched legs

It has been a while since I posted or browsed here. The summer was busy, fall came and went; I didn't have the stomach to use a computer after the workdays were over.

Tonight I am more-than-micro-dosing psilocybin and leaving a jazzy synth loop I made playing while thinking of some way to exit the desk for a living.

I maintain a lot of end-of-life telco gear for a growing company in a position of some prestige for my age, have gotten "us" out of a few bad times this year and made progress on quite a few big projects. The feeling is similar to being gifted a yacht when you live 9 hours away from the ocean and haven't the means to go use it more than once every few years - you would happily trade it for something more useful.

Whatever I need is a bit more than a vacation. There is a deep yearning just to walk under a tree canopy that doesn't go away. Going on camping trip next month, peak winter. Sometimes in the mountains I see radio base stations for weather/atmospheric data collection(?) and wish I was the person responsible for checking in on those things.

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~inquiry wrote:

> I'm also a big USENET fan. I hung out in the SeaMonkey
> group for a while before the Mozilla news server got
> shut down prematurely. I really would love to see a small
> net sort of like gemini emerge on USENET again, but the
> protocols that USENET uses are absolutely abysmal! Maybe
> someone can do what gemini did to gopher

=> /replies/5829 ~contrarian wrote (thread):

There's always being a firewatch or working in Antarctica.

=> /replies/5826 ~tetris wrote (thread):

To be a lighthouse operator, a forestry technician, or to be a librarian in a small mountain village where no one else can read. These are things I dream about.

=> /replies/5823 ~tffb wrote:

hey ~akhet!

I don't think I ever micro-dosed psilocybin, but I had blue cap mushrooms a bunch of times as a teenager, which contains psilocybin. Is a fun time! :)

::disclaimer, don't use drugs, et al::

Winter camping is brave. I've only gone Spring/Fall, and I love it, but the backpacking part I am not real thrilled about. Too much set up/break down.

Hope you're well and things stay good! :)

later