This is the first time I've ever heard anything about 4/20 and getting high. I feel very out of it.

This was the case with a couple people I work with. I feel like the cool kid of the office!

Troy is awfully far inland for good shrimp, though.

TOTALLY. I was stunned!!!

This is the first time I've ever heard anything about 4/20 and getting high. I feel very out of it.

Oh, right. There's some urban legend or something. Huh.

Whatevs.

Here, have some classic Sesame Street, with cameos: [link]

I think 420 is supposed to be the police code for arresting someone with weed or something? I have no idea.

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Devotees will insist that 420 is the penal code section for marijuana use, or the police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress, or the number of chemical compounds in marijuana, or that April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison died. Unless it was Jimi Hendrix, or was that Janis Joplin?

All these theories, and dozens more, are wrong, wrong, wrong.

According to Steven Hager, editor of High Times, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School, in 1971, among a group of about a dozen pot-smoking wiseacres who called themselves the Waldos. The term 420 was shorthand for the time of day the group would meet, at the campus statue of Louis Pasteur, to smoke pot.

OK, question--I suspect that last night's drunkard was probably trying to get into the other townhome at the end of my triplex. I don't know those neighbors at all, except for occasionally seeing them walking in or out--they're renters, and the combo has changed a few times. Is there any appropriate way to ask/warn/remind them that it's NOT OK for them or their guests to scare the shit out of me, wake me up, bang on the door, and then puke on it? (Note, this would not be ok to me even if you were MY guest, but). I mean, it's possible it was not anyone related to them. But.

I know it wasn't when Jimi Hendrix died, because that date is my birthday(Um, not that exact one, like "OMG, guys, they killed Jimi." but three years later

meara, I would ask the landlord to talk to them.

meara, I think there's no way to approach that with your neighbors based on an assumption. If you saw them ans were already chatty and could tell them what happened without implying at all that they were at all related to it, that would be okay I think. But seeking them out with that as the only point of beginning a conversation with them would not go well, most likely.

Yeah, java, that's kind of what I was thinking. I guess I was wondering if there was some sort of "Gosh, this happened to me and I don't know if it also happened to you, be aware" kind of thing, where then possibly the guilty party might be like "So sorry".

In other news...I just got a call from a recruiter for something that, while not my dream job, would be fairly close to it. But that would mean I'd leave this current company (a) right after they finished training me and (b) have that short term thing on my resume. OTOH, I'm really not pleased with the project they assigned me to, and kind of dreading working on it for the next however-long. Asked the recruiter to send me details. Not sure if I should try for it. Ack.