Quarantine routine
 

What you all doing?

I bought a shit tonne of weed, a shroom kit and an MPC One just as all this kicked off, so my days go a bit like this...

I wake up at 9:30, the little butcher on my corner opens at 9:45 and I want to be in first in there, no viruses, wash whatever I buy with soap then alcohol and start working at 10am.

At midday I shower and eat and either dance for a bit, read / watch / listen to something or make music. I work again 14:00 - 16:30. Then eat again this time with wine and smoke a little weed.

From 18:00 - 21:00 I am on call. If I have any work I need to finish up I'll do it then too. If not, I'll clean up a bit.

Around 8ish I'll eat half a gram of shrooms and abuse the energiser bunnies clapping from their balconies. The shrooms start to take effect around 9 when I'm no longer on call, half a g just gives you a slight buzz nothing crazy. Then more dancing, making music and watching / reading / listening to stuff till bedtime.

Half a g of shrooms and an MPC. That's a recipe of fun.

My diet is fairly narrow as there are only two stores I go to. The local butcher because so few people go the and I can be there first and a nearby Korean store because they are intelligent enough to not let you ever and serve you through a window hatch. Mostly I eat only meats and eggs with green leaf, I drink gazpacho and kombucha and wine, and if I need to snack I have some gyoza or grilled prawns with sirracha.

Throughout the day I'll randomly just do some burpees.

So far, honestly, except for the fact I'd quite like to go for a skate or just sit outside, this is fucking awesome. On balance this is better than what the old normal was. If my choice is between not being able to skate or really be outside much at all versus having to pointlessly go to a building every day, I'll take the current thing. Plus I get all my work done in less time and to a higher standard because there's no distractions, I'm not tired and I'm not desperate to get something out of the day in the later hours when I should be sleeping.

Outside can fuck itself.


Peace,

kowalski

I bought a bunch of online courses I've been doing. Completed the two life coaching ones and now I'm doing addiction therapy. That'll be followed by advanced CBT, then NLP, and I got another one on memory.

I'm in no real rush to get them done, but I imagine I'll have them all completed and passed by about July or August. As it stands I'm only really doing these as further topics of interest as a follow up to undergrad psychology, but I'm sure they could be potentially useful in a number of ways at some point.

The most I really have been able to maintain in terms of a structured schedule is every week morning from 9 to 11am I listen to a local talk/call-in radio programme whilst carrying out shit I've been meaning to do around my apartment. Then I usually eat at 12pm, 3pm and then again just before 6pm, with an 18 hour fast right through until 12 the next day. I can maintain this about 3 to 4 times a week but then I'll have a drink and eat some crap the next day, then start over again.

I go for big walks a few times a week, especially when it's sunny - which was practically every day for a month until today when it finally rained - whilst listening to a Joe Rogan podcast or Jordan Peterson lecture.

In between meals is study, reading, walking or errands such as driving to the supermarket. Evenings I like to study and read but it's unstructured and I'll do whatever I feel like for however long then read or vice versa. I've currently got about 5 books open and I enjoy the variance, makes you less likely to become bored of the one book.

I was already off work in recovery any way, so it hasn't been such a major upheaval to much of what I'd been doing for a number of months anyways, except the not being able drive to see family, and so with the extra free time I decided to get on the studying (thanks to the assistance of some well timed Facebook ads).

I try to minimise Facebook use though, because many people on it irritate me with their stupid questions and "Anyone know any good series I can waste my life away watching?", brain-dead fucks.

I started taking fat-burners a few days ago, which are a bit mental. It's just one a day but I feel constantly stimulated.

Nice.

I actually purchased a Maschine MK3 early last month, was considering the MPC One but am fairly happy with my decision. They are very similar by all accounts.

Personally, I've been very busy with work, there is more work on than pre-covid. I'm not complaining as I'm making bank at the moment. Outside of that I've been fairly strict with my body weight routine (daily) along with getting back into skateboarding. Oh and like yourself I'm making beats (or at least trying to)

I've got two women on switch who I've been seeing to bump chests with, both happy to break restrictions to hang out, eat takeaway food and bang. But I'm fucking sick of both of them to be honest. Hanging around with only females really brings you down. But yeah it's been okay I suppose.

That said, I do miss actual freedom and seeing the boys. Can't wait to get some new woman in my life too. Not gonna bother with trying to get any during this bullshit either.

I been drinking like crazy too. But fuck it.

Used the lock down as an excuse to be lazy soon as the Gym closed, put on over a stone, bollocks, cant wear fuck all now.
Bought a second hand rower and resistance bands, used em a couple of times thought they were crap so didnt bother, order another Pizza insread. Now back at the Gym and paying the price trying to shed the lock down belly.

Back in to lockdown for another 4 weeks then, and of course depending on how it goes it could be longer.

I've got a freelance business plan I've been working on and been building a website, because obviously I'm an impatient cunt and feel like I have to fill as much of my time as possible being productive, and I'll probably spend a fair amount of time on it during lockdown. I need to go for a long fucking walk in the mountains.

Haven't seen my sick mum properly in 7 months either because of the plague restrictions. I'm very mentally strong but lets just say I'd hate to be the guy who pushed my buttons right now.

Aside from all that, I really hope the aliens arrive, or failing that a very large asteroid.

Get a pet Dan, a dog or cat if you have are able to owning a dog or cat can elevate levels of serotonin and dopamine, which calm and relax. If you are unable to have a dog or cat, fish are a great way to relax too, hence why there are so many in doctors and dentists surgerys, Birds are good too, budgie's or parrots.

I would love to get a dog, a boxer. But since I'm always out for most of the day and I don't have a yard, it would be cruel.

Although other pets don't need so much attention. I did have fish before but they got adopted by a fish loving family because I just couldn't be fucked cleaning out the tank all the time.

Might get a white rat or two. Or a talking parrot.

Rats are great ive had rats, I had this particular rat when I was a kid that lived in my bedroom I kept the cage door open and he would come and go as he pleased, always messed in his cage too. Things would go missing, little bastard was a thief, I would find stuff hidden that he had taken. Loved being tickled with a feather and sleep on me. You would still get the same Endorphins to relieve stress.

Chill the fuck out, Dan. Don’t be getting your rage on. Are you working from home? If so, you can take a break at any moment and do any activity to reset your mood.

I feel for your IT department. They are probably overworked and understaffed and will have given realistic delivery plans for their projects and been told to do it quicker and cut corners to make a minimum viable product, meanwhile they will have produced what was asked for and then had to return and rewrite huge chunks of code one and over again because the instruction was poorly written, or left out key steps, the instruction was wrong or that the result is not usable or the issue the instruction without proper consultation and it will be rewritten from scratch or just because someone changed their minds... all of those things repeatedly... and for sure they were ignored when they warned of the dangers that are now realties.

Then there’s this angry sex obsessed baldy wanting to rip them a new one because he isn’t maintaining appropriate emotional distance from his work (“our...our...our” you dropped 3 in a row, Dan).


Peace,

kowalski

That day was particularly stressful but having realised I overreacted and that I shouldn't have let myself get so worked up, it's unlikely to happen again. Even my manager said to me yesterday when there was another similar issue, there's only so much you're able to do yourself. So, if something's out of my control and I at least do my best, then that's enough. I can't be expected to do shit that's out of my area of expertise.

Not working from home. We're prepared to, but there's only 6 in our team so we have a whole office to ourselves.

You have high standards, nothing wrong with that but its frustrating if you feel your not reaching those standards, and your always going to be harder on yourself than anyone else will be. Shows your conscientious. Feel proud about that but don't beat yourself up no one thanks you for it, just do what you can which is probably more than others.

My working from home since April was a crazy routine change for me. Biggest drawback and potential for awesomeness when travel is easier. Did new things like taking up the guitar daily, bit more daygame, and getting my rotation the highest it's been since I was in NYC 2017, partly from more tinder too.

Way more home cooked meals and cycling, due to daily output of calories being so much less.

Way less alcohol this year then I ever have since starting drinking, only ever used it to make nights out more fun so seems pointless now.

More family and friend phonecalls. Keeping long distance HBB's sweet for when travel is easier again.

Sleeping better than ever, consistently 1-2am sleep waking at 10am. I'm sure that contributed to my sex drive being higher too.

@kowalski, have you found any negative effects of daily mushrooming yet? I've seen it get pretty dark in the long run for one my my friends working in tech using it for 'creativity'

You can’t take it daily for long, it seems to always require a significant dosage increase to get the previous day’s effect. So you soon get to the stage where volume / cost wise it is a lot. Also, after a large dose you are somewhat psychologically spent. You have to be an unusual person to, for example, run a marathon every day, it will be extremely taxing, require a lot of determination, probably be detrimental and you’d likely give up or at least start to take rest days pretty soon into it.

I usually have them kicking around and tend to take them for different motivations 1. for fun around 0.5 and 1.5g, 2. because I want to make a significant change in my life then >3g 3. just because they are there / no known reason / it just popped into my head for this I will take a microdose.

I expect fun when I take a fun dose.

I don’t expect any significant change when I take higher doses. It is often closely correlated in time with me making significant change but I can’t casually relate the two because the whole point is I’ve already decided I need to change something and this is just one of the actions I take between deciding to make a change and fully realising that change. So it could be circumstantial.

The times I microdose just because it came to mind etc. is just a reflection of how I eat. If I feel a craving for a specific food, I assume my body is telling me something important and will eat some of it and if I think of taking a little shrooms I’ll assume the same.


I don’t really know if it is having any effects at all apart from the obvious experienced ones. To say a buddy of yours got all messed up on it is a huge leap beyond the information you have about his situation. You’d have to have a lot of detailed data to determine that. It could be the cause of all my problems, the key to all my successes, anything in between or nothing. Anecdotally I feel inclined to say good things about it and draw correlation between it and give some credit to it for positive and difficult things (dealing with religious stuff from childhood, leaving the UK, dealing with addictive behaviour, leaving Cordoba, etc) but that’s my inclination. I’m a believer in that, so my view is biased.

The only things that I can say with a degree of certainty are casually connected are the direct experiences of being high on them and my actions under the influence... Mixing it with alcohol is a bad idea for me and I’ve done some fairly terrible things with that combination in me. That was definitely a huge negative. Or sometimes I’ve eyeballed a small dose before work and realised it was more than I should have taken but that’s just fun too, you just ride it out. Or taken some on a whim, then forgotten and later remembered when I stop to notice how incredibly beautiful the river is looking this morning. Or I’ve taken them and then life suddenly got real serious but too late because I’m already high af. Things like that.


Peace,

kowalski

This is interesting K

The newbies won't know that I quit drugs ten years ago. However, I've been intrigued by the likes of DMT.

I'm no expert on it, but to me, micro-dosing sounds like rather than getting smashed off your face, you take a little bit just to give you a little background buzz.

Back when I was on drugs, I abused them heavily. I know now that that's why it came to the point where I had to stop. But it would be different if I was to do something now, as a more educated cunt.

Obviously, I wouldn't be doing any amphetamines, but..

I definitely don't want to die not experiencing more hallucinations.

Might do glue again.

Any of these substances ever helped in getting results with women? I look at amphetamines like ritalin for example, owing to improving one's focus.

For the most part, at least in my experience, results and/or outcomes with women when on drugs were twofold.

On the one hand, I could have sex forever, basically. I was one of the seemingly rare, and lucky lads who never suffered from shrimp dick on Ecstasy. So when I was having sex, it went on a long time. Which was obviously amazing when both participants are on drugs.

On the other hand, I am sadly to remember dozens of times where I missed out on blatant opportunities for sex due to either being blissfully whopped off my chops, or thinking about and chasing more E's. I genuinely missed out on 40+ girls this way. I only realised this years later after I managed to become a functional addict and was reflecting on the many things I'd experienced from the ages 15 to 17, during which I was hopelessly hooked to the point of looking like death warmed up (actual quote from a friend after I'd come round a bit).

I don't know if these kinds of drugs could help you in the ways you're asking. I can certainly draw on many times where me and the girl were both off our heads and thanks to the loved up feeling of ecstasy, one thing led to another.

But I was a drug abuser, even when functional, and I was fucking mental. So I can't answer your queries with any specificity since I took those drugs for alternative reasons.