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Jimboloco, good luck with your rehab...Hope to see you back here at studio eight soon! We'll keep the light on for you.

I wondered where jimboloco was but now I remember he said he was going.

Jim I hope you are rehabing nicely, I hope you got your sketch book with you.

I had not been following this thread for a very long time. I just read Jim's post from Dec 15th. Tears welled up in my eyes.

I saw you here, Jim, for the Jam... I saw the photo of your family eating Christmas dinner. I saw your photo as "The Grinch" and listened to the very humorous accompanying audio. We painted your picture together, me and two friends. I thought everything was fine.

I had no idea... not in my wildest dreams... that anybody could become so addicted to pot that it would cause so much harm in a person's life. I have seriously always considered pot to be a minor type natural substance that nobody really ever gets physically addicted to. Mentally, yeah, maybe but not physically. I have always believed it should be legalized as it's safer than alcohol, not really dangerous to a person's body like alcohol and other substances.

I, myself, don't indulge any more, though I did for a time years ago. Still, I hold nothing against people who do other than worrying that it's illegal and they could get in trouble.

I'm very sorry to hear, Jim, that you lost your job. And sorry to hear that it became and addiction for you. I seriously never knew that was possible. I just thought it was a natural plant and nobody could really be addicted to it.

Now I know better.

Your story was heart wrenching.

I'm glad to hear you're taking steps to change your life so that it is no longer a problem that negatively effects your finances and your marriage.

I wish you all the best, Jim, and I'm thinking of you.

Thank you so much for your beautiful post to my other friend, Jim, who is suffering from cancer.

For both Jims, I wish health and recovery.

Many kind and caring thoughts I send your way.

I am living testament to it's medical benefits. I am also sorry to hear about about Jimbo's addiction. I have been in and out of the weed culture since I was 15, and only known one other person for whom it has become an addiction. Weirdly enough his name is Jim as well and about my age. He seems to have a handle on it though and still enjoys it, but needs it.

I must have got stoned and missed you jimboloco
I just could not understand what the problem was.
In the meantime I am thinking about jumping on my scooter and running down to see how you doing.

Also in the meantime I have a couple of books I would like to send you. One an army medical manual from the 1850's. The one the surgeons used as a field guide during the civil war and a novel called "Love in the Ruins" the novel I was telling you about the doctor who checks in and out as a patient and a therapist.

keep in touch will ya
sincerely
jt

I remember how this board got its name. I sure do miss izzy.

I don't know any one here better than I feel you jimboloco. No one I feel closer to except maybe for Cecil and Clay.

You have not locked this thread, so I am going to keep checking in. Till you check back with us. I want to mail that book I promised you for Christmas a couple of years ago, also a novel by Walker Percy.

Going to be a beautiful day, so cold this morning I been sitting in here in the gloom listening to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mgaICZS79Y

Going to be seventy two today, outside bright sunlight lifts my spirit I got to go out now. Enough time here with the shadows and pixels.

Please don't be a stranger
sincerely
jt
ps
I still got your address will your mail forward?

I just realized that the name of the board has been changed again. Oh well.

I liked the title izzy gave it. Or maybe it was doreen. Izzy don't hardly come round no more. You know how paranoid I can get. I figure it is something I said about her, her...

well I don't want to talk about that.

Maybe not paranoia as much as narcissism or vanity maybe. Going to go check the the spelling on that. I hope your rehab is habing nicely jim.

I read a bit about ego death the other day, kind of put a new spin on it for me. I have always considered ego as part of my unholy trinity of ego, id, and super-ego. Poor old Freud he don't get much respect no more. I have more compassion for him since I found out he was a suicide. Physician assisted no less.

Here is the bit about ego death I mentioned

http://studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... th#p139592

keep in touch call me or email or what ever.
even PM.



well so much for now got to edit and spell this check and see what I have writ wrote.
inFriendship
jt

still standing by jimboloco
still addicted to the grind
still wishing you well

stilltrucking wrote:I just realized that the name of the board has been changed again. Oh well.

I liked the title izzy gave it. Or maybe it was doreen. Izzy don't hardly come round no more.

What was it before? Did I change it when we upgraded the software? Oh yeah. Creative Complaints. It's still there... it's just the sub-title/ description now. Want me to reverse them?

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Jimbo... hope you're doing ok! Check in here some time soon, alright?

It is good, no need to change. Thanks doreen

Hoping all going well for you, jimboloco.

SadLuckDame wrote:Hoping all going well for you, jimboloco.

me, too.
thinking of you, jim

Ya Jim keep on keepin on...

well now, i am up all night, because i finished my substance abuse treatment group
and gave encouragement to a vet my age who was the only survivor of his combat unit in Vietnam and he had been drinking non-stop for 40 years, somehow got into this program and is now graduating into the stress treatment group

he never was in a vets group before
i gave him a hug tonight and encouragement
then it all came back so i was sitting in my backyard
smoking cigars and listening to community radio music
tried to do tai chi in the dark but was too unbalanced

i put in for service connected disability today
i am now living on social security (not much)
because i had to sign up way earlier than i had hoped

i am doing better sorry no more maniac ranting
because i did not know that i was becoming maniacal
and since i started on Depakote and off the Effexor
i have had no black moods and am no longer wired
(sorry wireman, you are wired somehow just right)

yes i finally was able to stop pot
funny enough one of the nam vets in my group
was a marijuana farmer who got busted

i am one of those reefer madness types
why i made a pass at judih and arcadia also before that
bipolar is just an extension of depression-anxiety

i am getting extraordinary treatment at the veterans'
administration medical center here.....i tried for ten years via private shrinks
to get an effective diagnosis.....my doctor Spoto says i should have been on depakote for as long time and yes pot does toss me up into a mania

been smoking swicher sweets grape flavored

i ain't had a drink since dec 3rd and pot for only 2 weeks 2/22 is my
straight date what can i say it's interesting to hear the guys talk
i seem normal to them

when i complete my initial stint in my first substance abuse group, i will go to a follow up recovery group there, shit i did acid, mescaline, speed, heroin, opium,
cocaine, booze and pot pot pot i still love pot forgetaboutit

i basically had a nervous breakthrough
i told my mother it is us who should have gotten a divorce when she
sent my wife an xmas card telling her she hopes she gets the house for
herself and her kids.....my wife signed over to me a quick claim deed
because she can not make mortgage payments and does not want her credit to suffer
so living on the lamb in st pete
all those down and out beat years are now becoming worthwhile
because i am absolutely confident going thru itall

my wife is asleep in the front bedroom
i have the back of the house
she is happy now that i am not smoking pot

no more black moods and yet sometimes i get a bit trembling
i can see vietnam very clearly now 40 years later
and am of lucky to have www.wmnf.org because i get to talk on the radio

i talked with a female blogger in Egypt just when their revolution got started
and again a doctor there the next week, plus i got in for MLK day
my 2 cents worth

i just left a little rant about the new damned order of stratotankers for Boeing
we don't need them they are for ferrying bombers and fighters overseas
hope it will be on the show tomorrow morning

back into the quakers cause they have bite and tai chi because they are all
so happy

found some old sketches i wanna post hat i''d done from works in he st pete art museum about 20 years ago

etc.
I am so blessed to have studio eight
and am glad you have been carrying on
and off

blessings

good going sir jim!
an inspiration to me and i guess everyone who's hanging out in this thread.

strong direction of honesty - pouring outa ya

energetic signals - radio is tuned in