Riding the Train after a Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara 6-28-2015 - Jerry Garcia's Ghost Visited us... as a Rainbow over the Concert and ACTUAL RAIN IN THE SUMMER! Very Rare!

Grateful Dead in Santa Clara, CA 

After the concert, we all got on the Free light-rail train and rode it to Los Gatos. The Train was TOTALLY Packed... Like Japanese. We all sang along to a person's cellphone that played the song "Godzilla" by Blue Oyster Cult. FUN! I ended up sleeping in a field behind a 7/11. A No cost motel room. Then the next day I rode Amtrak to Martinez and then too the bus to Eureka. Using public transportation at this concert was a great blessing... No driving a car after eating Marijuana Cookies!
In general, riding the bus or Train is FUN!

Waiting for the Grateful Dead Concert and eating Costa Rican Chocolate bars that they were vending... Really Strong... I ate a quarter of a bar and barfed it up an hour later... but their cannabis lozenges were EPIC.

The fundamental engineering concept of the "Wall of Sound" is valid... yet for some unknown reason the Phase Cancelling Microphones did not become industry standard. Why not continue Owsley's research into phase cancelling microphones for public address systems. Why not move the second microphone farther away from the primary microphone. Per Bill K, they really had to eat the microphone to make the "Wall of Sound" work. If an engineer made a wireless microphone... Maybe the quality of the new design would make the singers happy...

I feel Extremely Lucky to Have Been Born at a Time When I could Go to A Concert With Jerry Garcia... What a Blessing! One time I Danced RIGHT In Front Touching The Stage at San Jose State University... But It was TOO LOUD so I Only Stayed There for a Few Minutes... He was Drenched in Sweat... You Can't See THAT form The Cheap Seats... The Big Song of the Night was "Lay Down Sally" - Quite a Difficult Song with a PERKY Rhythm... another Time The Dead Played "La Bamba" and it seemed like Only Jerry Really GOT The Rhythm... Everyone Else was Struggling to Stay on the Beat... Just like the Lyrics to the Song "Fire on the Mountain"

Photo of a Rainbow over Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.

It's really rare that we experience rain 

during the summer but...

This time it was like Jerry Garcia's Ghost was visiting us...

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Grateful Dead... Original Deadhead ART and My Story... American History... An Amazing Experience... PLUS... Original Poetry and Fiction... Learned by Me While OUT THERE. I'm gr8ful

Grateful Deadhead Webpage...

Fan tribute ART and Stories...

sugar cube...

like the cover of "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"
by Tom Wolfe.

~~~~~~~~~~my  Gr8ful  story~~~~~~~~~

 I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them. and then...

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MORE GRATEFUL DEAD INSPIRED ART...

Poetry inspired by Dead Concerts at JFK Stadium and the Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia.

ceremony and ritual: a story...

OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING

COLONIAL ANIMAL...

FLOWING IN THE

CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC...

adrenaline, serotonin,synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.

THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,

FEEL THE HEAT...

adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL

REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.

THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION

AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS

adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND

I RICOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM

ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.

A CROWD OF DEADHEADS

SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES...

THEY JUST...know... THAT I WILL LAUGH...

adrenaline,serotonin,synapses on fire!

THANK YOU DR. ALBERT HOFFMAN

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How to fix the Waiting for Edge Chat error in the Farmville Game. DELETE COOKIES, RESTART GAME. and tips for playing Farmville.

In Google Chrome: Delete History/Clear Browsing Data prevents the error message from appearing... I keep the Passwords only...

Be aware that you will have to sign in again to all the websites you like... but the passwords will be stored, so that's easy to do... be aware that this is a temporary fix... I have to do it every time I want to play Farmville... and I have read that this infection happens on all games.

I Check EVERYTHING except passwords... 

A simple way to avoid annoying error messages on the computer is to put a piece of paper over the location of the message... often while I play Farmville, it says "waiting for edge chat facebook com" ... because the game is failing to connect with something I don't care about... the message is always in the lower left hand corner of the screen... so, a piece of paper folded in half removes that message from my sight...

Optional: Run Disk Cleanup... Good to do Occasionally... 

When I run Disk Cleanup... I select My Files Only, 

Drive C: OK... OK... Are You Sure? Delete Files.

deleting unnecessary files from my computer. 

Sometimes the error message will re-appear days later... so once again I delete history in Google Chrome... everything except passwords and the message stops appearing...


 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050?hl=en

Clear cache and cookies

Cookies, which are files created by websites you’ve visited, and your browser’s cache, which helps pages load faster, make it easier for you to browse the web.

Clearing your browser’s cache and cookies means that website settings (like usernames and passwords) will be deleted and some sites might appear to be a little slower because all of the images have to be loaded again.

How to clear cache and cookies in Google Chrome.
Open Chrome.
On your browser toolbar, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu.
Click More tools > Clear browsing data.
In the box that appears, click the checkboxes for "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" and "Cached images and files."
Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Choose beginning of time to delete everything.
Click Clear browsing data.

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Waiting for:
0-edge-chat.facebook.com
1-edge-chat.facebook.com
2-edge-chat.facebook.com
3-edge-chat.facebook.com
4-edge-chat.facebook.com
5-edge-chat.facebook.com
6-edge-chat.facebook.com

THIS IS CREEPY

ZYNGA enables trolls. If you play Farmville, your complete name is displayed and you are automatically a Facebook Friend to other players... This is an Obvious Security flaw... FIX THIS ZYNGA... What if a boy player noticed a cute girl as another player... I like that thumbnail picture of Miss X... gee, I'd like to see more of her on Facebook and write on her wall...  etc, etc, etc...

and here is a Farmville Tip: Never Share Free Gifts with Facebook Friends... it's really annoying to them! Always use the Farmville Friends Tab... or Suggested Friends... ZYNGA is trying to trick you into becoming a Spammer For Them.

Don't Be A Menace to South Central LA while you're Playing Farmville in The 'Hood

By Setting the Zoom to 125%

all the advertisements "appear"

off the screen to the right...

Farmville is much more fun without

annoying ads...

Keyboard Shortcut F11 makes the game Fullscreen.

Farmville Advertisement Blocker Trick

A privacy hint. Fill out online forms with bad data. It's really none of their business. I have set up Google Autocomplete with THE WRONG ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER. Often when filling out forms online they want to know where you live... well, NO... I refuse... I give them an address that I used to live at and do not get forwarded mail from. NO... I don't give out my PHONE NUMBER to strangers...


Farmville Strategy: Fun without spending any real money. Please post your Ideas... Thanks! Build a Fishing Hole on every one of the 15 farms and they generate 6 Special Deliveries each. Those special deliveries are very useful for feeding my turtles... and building more fishing holes... "Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps."


Farmville Tip: Grow Soybeans, Cotton & Plant Cherry Trees to Create Farmhands in the Craftshop ... Only in a video game world does this work. In reality, people use sex to create farmhands...


Dear Zygna: Could we have fewer annoying popups in Farmville? How about a keyboard shortcut key to close them quickly... The vast majority of the time, I do not want to see the annoying popups and have to stop doing what I am doing in order to click on the White "X" in the red square...

It's FUN to click on Republican Pay Per Click advertisements and COST THEM MONEY.

Go ANYWHERE on the Internet, CLICK ON the GOP Ads... then write why they are EVIL Puppets of the Super Rich on their webpage. Play the Elephant Clicker Game!

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Today Canada Legalizes Marijuana Nationwide... Smuggling to the States becomes #1 Import. No Trump Tariffs to interfere with Pure Capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfP-aBXhxUs

Thousands line up early in Canada to buy marijuana legally

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It’s been too easy for our kids to get marijuana - and for criminals to reap the profits. Today, we change that. Our plan to legalize & regulate marijuana just passed the Senate. #PromiseKept

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way to DECREASE government spending while INCREASING Tax revenues? There is a WAY! Simply Legalize Marijuana, Tax it and release all the Cannabis Prisoners. EVERYBODY WINS! MORE MONEY GOING IN, LESS MONEY GOING OUT... and I wouldn't pay a penny in increased Taxes because I don't smoke. Let the stoners pay for improved schools... roads... infrastructure... Medicare for all... INTELLIGENT LAWS WIN! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/marijuana-support-grows-two-out-of.html

FREE ALL CANNABIS PRISONERS. Save the Taxpayers a Fortune Wasted on the Failed War on Drugs. RELEASE all that Entrepreneurial Talent to Jump Start the American Economy!

Legalize Weed Nationwide, TAX IT, Layoff Unneeded Police. Retrain them to be Teacher's Classroom assistants... Teach Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Use the empty prison cells to house the homeless. GEE! THAT WAS EASY!

Ask Yourself: Am I getting a GOOD VALUE for all that money I spend providing Food, Shelter and Beatings for all those Druggies? Is there ANY ADVANTAGE AT ALL to Warehousing People for a Crime that ISN'T EVEN ILLEGAL ANYMORE? WHAT THE FUCT ARE WE DOING???

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/free-all-cannabis-prisoners-save.html

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Revealing a total loss of contact with reality... In his world, just like Peter Pan, Believing Makes It Real. 

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Back when I was Smoking Marijuana This Blog was very Popular. Over a Thousand Visits a Day. Now that I quit, I get an average of 150 Hits a day... Deep Sigh...

I Guess that I was Creating More interesting Pages when High. I was writing Absurdist Fiction, Travel Photo Pages, Political Ranting and Raving and Psychedelic ART... 

I still do that but I find it very difficult to THINK UP IDEAS for my stories... Just like Edgar Allen Poe and Lewis Carroll, my work was Drug Fueled... 

and Google changed their search algorithm to ignore a trick I thought up when stoned to boost Search Engine Optimization... I copied and pasted ALL THE WORDS from my LABELS File into a blog post and so IF any of those words were searched for... my page was selected by Google... Since there were about 3,000 words in that File, almost every Google Search returned my Blog... Well, That Trick Does Not Work Anymore. 

It looks like this but goes on and on and on...

(~);-}, #13, #299, #BerserkerPOTUS, #BillionDollarLoser, #BogusPotus, #DitchMitch, #DumpDrumpf, #DumpTrump, #hemp, #ImpeachTrump, #MAGAbomber, #nodapl, #ReleaseTheReport, #runaway  

Those were the days!

Blog visits increased dramatically when I was smoking Marijuana - better quality work? or just my google label/keyword trick fooling the search engine - we will never know - gvan42

One problem with having a popular Blog is that My PARANOIA was higher then... maybe that was a side effect of smoking weed but... since I rant and rave about US Government Corruption, Republicans Doing Evil, Ecology, Freedom, liberty and Legalization of Psychedelics and Marijuana... I believed that maybe the FBI, CIA, NSA and Law Enforcement was ANGRY about me exposing their horrible behavior... I do know that they READ INTERNET BLOGS and Social Media so It is entirely possible that I am on a Government List... of Potential Troublemakers that need to be spirited away to secret Concentration Camps... 

and then I noticed a LOT of Unmarked White Vans and Trucks that would park in front of My Neighbors Houses... 

So, one day I drove to the Avenue of the Giants near Eureka and walked across a footbridge to the other side of the EEL river... and felt safe! 

unsolved mysteries 9/11 question airplane hit building near a corner but did not lean towards the damage - defying the laws of physics

American Fatalities 9/11 - twice as many people died in the reaction to the attack as did in the attack - Bin Laden tricked America into killing Ourselves and Blowing up Iraq - a country that had Nothing to do with 9/11, no WMD and No ties to Al-Qaedahttps://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/back-when-i-was-smoking-marijuana-this.html

Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon

As legalization spread across the USA I wanted to experience LEGAL weed as soon as possible. When I retired from work I did a lot of driving around sleeping in the back of my VAN... I was like a turtle with my home on my back. First I drove to Utah with my friend Mike Jensen to attend the Rainbow Gathering...

After we were done with that I took a drive to Washington State to experience the Legal Weed. On the first visit I was unable to find any... I asked some local kids and asked for directions but there were very few stores and they were often closed...

On the Second Trip I picked up a hitchhiker who had some hash oil and he gave me some as a thank you gift for picking him up in the rain... Later I decided to go home and attend the Kinetic Sculpture Race at home but... and this is a big but... I smoked some hash oil... then I got onto Highway #5 and   I accidentally put the van into gear #2 and turned on the radio... When I hit 70 miles per hour the transmission exploded and then the engine caught fire... OOPS! I pulled over to the side of the freeway and said the Serenity prayer... I walked down the freeway and over to a Lumber Mill. The security guard called me a tow truck and I was towed to a motel...

I had the van towed to an auto repair place where they said it would cost $8,000 to repair my Ford Windstar. I paid $3,000 to buy it used so I decided it was Uneconomical to repair... Eventually I gave it to the Humane Society as a donation to help animals.

I did not allow this disaster to interfere with my vacation. I rode the AMTRAK to Seattle, Bought and ate TWO Marijuana Cookies, drank some of that rocket fuel coffee and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle and the Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Pavilion. (also a Nirvana Museum) Both musicians lived near Seattle. They had a musical instrument for tourists to play... It was 20 Tubular Bells that random people could whack with pool balls hung from a wire. VERY popular with children. I loved it too.

Then I rode the Monorail to downtown Seattle Business District and arrived at Quitting Time on a Sunny Friday afternoon. The first big weekend of Spring. I was impressed with the JOY of the office workers and the BEAUTY of the Secretaries. One effect of a heavy Cannabis Dose is that it makes women appear more beautiful... I really had to piss and was in the center of the city with no public bathrooms... so I peed my pants... I didn't care.

I stayed at motels for a few weeks and walked, rode the train, rode the bus and taxi and eventually got home. Quite a tricky walkabout. I enjoyed the friendship of kids in Centrailia, Washington... Great People! Then I bought another Van for $3,000...

I wanted to not only experience LEGAL WEED but I wanted to Vote with my Money and reward Washington State politicians who voted for Legal weed. The next year Oregon legalized Marijuana, Then Nevada and California... Soon... the entire USA.