Calling all Americans HNT week

If you are a citizen of the U.S.A please read the post, if not please read it anyway, and spread the word

You're pissed off. You don't like the actions taken by your Administration and/or by a whole lot of your elected officials. You can sit around and complain and do nothing else - or - you can get off of your butt and start to take action. The choice is yours. But what you do, or don't do, will have an impact on what happens in your country. (to the rest of the world believe me this affects you too)

The first step? Get registered to vote and work to get others registered to vote. That's the way we change things in your country. If every U.S. reader of this blog would go out and get 5 people a month to register to vote ... and if those five people went out and got 5 other people registered to vote ... well, you can see the potential.


You'll hear more about this in the coming weeks (National Blog Voter Registration Day - April 18th). I am including a link to Project Vote Smart. (PVS) for each of the states, where you can find out more information on voting records, etc., of your elected officials. (Please let me know if you find any broken or mis-labeled links).

Take that first step. Get involved. Please join the fight. (Feel free to copy, link, or whatever to this post - anything to get the information out)

1. Alabama PVS
2. Alaska PVS
3. Arizona PVS
4. Arkansas PVS
5. California PVS
6. Colorado PVS
   
7. Connecticut PVS
8. Delaware PVS
9. District of Columbia PVS
10. Florida PVS
11. Georgia PVS
12. Hawaii PVS
13. Idaho PVS
14. Illinois PVS
15. Indiana PVS
16. Iowa PVS
17. Kansas PVS
18. Kentucky PVS
    
19. Louisiana PVS
20. Maine PVS
21. Maryland PVS
22. Massachusetts PVS
23. Michigan PVS
    
24. Minnesota PVS
25. Mississippi PVS
26. Missouri PVS
27. Montana PVS
28. Nebraska PVS
29. Nevada PVS
30. New Hampshire PVS
31. New Jersey PVS
32. New Mexico PVS
33. New York PVS
34. North Carolina PVS
35. North Dakota PVS
36. Ohio PVS
37. Oklahoma PVS
38. Oregon PVS
39. Pennsylvania PVS
40. Rhode Island PVS
41. South Carolina PVS
42. South Dakota PVS
43. Tennessee PVS
44. Texas PVS
    
45. Utah PVS
46. Vermont PVS
47. Virginia PVS
48. Washington PVS
49. West Virginia PVS
50. Wisconsin PVS
51. Wyoming PVS

And Now speaking of getting off your butt, here is mine.

To find out why I do this click the image below

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Consequence................

I have previously written about the origin of the name Furzl, Furzl reflecting a sound I heard while hallucinating thanks to the ingestion of LSD.

Being clean for perhaps 10 years, acid flash backs have become less and for the most part have occured in the comfort of my bed. I can ride them out no harm done.

I was somewhat taken by surprise this morning at my desk, when I started seeing a colourful flickers across my screen that seemed to spread out to the sides across my desk over my phone and up the wall, on the other side across my desk and onto a collegue. I could not see the characters on my screen to carry on typing. By the time the metallic taste crept into my mouth it dawned on me what was happening.

Understanding that not every trip feels good, I felt like utter crap, completely out of myself and dysfunctional. Everything became too bright and too loud. I switched off my screen and shut my eyes. that killed the brightness but not the sound or the colour.

Thankfully I am busy with month end functions so people tend not to disturb me.
A collegue who hung out in his youth at the same respectable establishments I did, did notice me and took a frighteningly accurate guess at why I looked like did. He then offered to put on some appropriate psychedelic music. Sick man.

I feel normal again now. A bizarre surreal experince of perhaps twenty minutes of office life. Just exhausted and craving sweetness. I hope I don't experience that again.

I think I have a renewed regret for indulging in chemicals.