Confession time, I use to smoke a small amount of the COMPLETELY legal in Canada cannabis before bed. Mostly to calm and relax me enough to allow me to sleep. Well, I stopped a few months ago, and among the inability to now have a really relaxing sleep, I have begun to dream again. I’d love to say my dreams are of long walks on sandy beaches with Latin music in the background and warm sunny breezes blowing my long flowing hair… but alas, they always seem to be me in an incredibly, unrealistic stressful situation. And last night was a good one. 
Thanks to my buddy Tim, who gave me, or sold me (it really was not clear) a helicopter and within a few moments, trained me how to fly it. Cut to my first solo flight to Montreal, somehow after encountering a drone following me, the lever control on the left side of the cockpit came off the floor in my hand and caused the whirlybird to very slowly spin and plunge to the earth. It was like I was in a bit of a haze with clouds or smoke blocking my view but somehow I landed upside down and walked out to survey the damage. I was freaked out, so I guess I woke up to visit the rest room, thinking that would be the end of it.
After a mouthful of water and a pillow cuddle, I am back at it, in some kind of concrete jungle warehouse, right out of breaking bad, watching a team of mechanics putting humpty back together again, and YES Tim is right there with a wrench knee deep in the fuselage. “It should be OK now, he says confidently” and I take it back up for a spin, back on my quest to reach Montreal. Somehow, I am up so high that in mere minutes, I am over an ocean and I can’t figure out how to land and realize that in my very short lesson, we NEVER covered landing. Oh and I want to call someone to see if I could get some help, but my phone is now the size of a matchbook and has no numbers on it, and the little itty bitty batteries keep falling out.
Ok, so I did have a great conversation with Tim yesterday, and watched a few clips from breaking bad… but where did all the other stuff come from? I tell you, maybe it’s time to look at taking some gummies before bed!
Thanks for reading,
Jim
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