Morning Everyone.
Well the creative block has stuck with me though I have taken extreme measures to shake it off. Tenacious bastard.
These 'extreme measures' include experimenting with mind altering drugs.
I have one word of advice to anyone out there who might be brave enough to venture along the same road: Don't mix Neo Citron Night Time Hot Lemon with Buckleys Mixture DM.
That was one .....bad....trip man. You don't wanna go down there.
Seriously though, speaking of drug trips, it reminds me of something that happened to me once. First of all I need to take a little detour. You see I found out the other day that my Dad reads my blog. (Hi Dad)

Now at this point I could do one of 3 things: cramp my style, live in denial about the fact that he is reading, or write all my stories in the third person and hope that he doesn't realize that I am talking about myself.
I think I will choose the denial route, if it gets really bad possibly a little hypnosis and memory cleansing.
Anyway, back to my drug story. I don't do drugs, not because I disagree with them, it's just that I never seem to be able to get around to it. I am not talking about drugs like Crack or even ecstasy.
Anything that can kill you or do permanent damage to your brain isn't in my list of fun pastimes. Oh wait, I mountain bike. Never mind.
Back to my story, which is about the one time that I (I mean this girl that I know) tried mushrooms about 5 years ago.
There were about 5 of us in a park all hooped on them. I was gazing in rapture at the complexity of the leaves in the trees and noticing with wonder that they appeared to become pixelated and display artifacts just like a computer trying to play a movie and chunking out.
Suddenly the guy next to me says, woah man.... the treeeeees.....they're like....all in digital man. I asked him to clarify, amazed that he was seeing the same thing as me, "yeah man like all little squares like on a computer" "Yeah man...." "yeah.....coool" ".....yeah....." "Hey look that chicks hairs on fire man".
Okay so my point is, how was it that we were both hallucinating the same thing? With out previously discussing it. I have since come up with several theories.
What if, the universe as we know it, is a complex program or matrix (yes something like the movie) Our perception of it works like a computer playing a DiVX file. Certain drugs interfere with our perception which causes artifacts like in a low bit rate DiVX. Not necessarily like chunking out, I don't think it's a bandwidth problem, it's more like a degradation of quality, just a lower bit rate.
Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it?
Today's drug of choice is caffeine.
Okay, okay, okay, Coffee Snob Mark Prince, I may owe you an apology. But seeing as you are a coffee snob and didn't write in my forum, I wont apologize.
As you recommended, we went down to the J.J Bean place in Vancouver and got some green beans a while ago.
This morning Derek and I roasted our own beans and ground them and made coffee as per instructions on Mark Princes coffeegeek.com page. The coffee is amazingly flavorful.

Thanks for the tips.
Damn I love global warming.
The weather has been great lately.
I went for a trail ride by myself yesterday (Derek is sick) and had my first two crashes since I injured my back.
I have been taking it pretty easy for 4 months but yesterday it was too muddy to go slow. One of the crashes was pretty bad, catapulting over the handlebars into the bush, resulting in a little bit of a swollen ankle, but over all I survived.
I feel so relieved to finally get that stressful and inevitable "first crash after injury" over and done with. The longer you go without crashing the larger a monster it appears to be looming on your horizon.
Anyway, it's done and I didn't die, but needless to say I am a bit sore today.
Well This is a damn long journal entry (I think that's due to the coffee) so I will leave you today with this link. Definitely worth watching. Later.