Note to my future self

[amdiranifani]

Whatever you do, do not take a job anywhere in Oregon or northern california or some other place with a perpetually nice climate (at least compared to the typical winter/spring/summer/fall setup of the northeast and other sane places). All the nice weather will kill your productivity and leave you destitute to die in some debtors' prison.

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[epanastatis]

Yes on the syphilis, no on the sanitaria.

Murdering your productivity in North Africa

[metacognizant]

1) Take a ferry from Algeciras, Spain, to Tangiers, Morocco.
2) Exit the Tangiers ferry terminal. Across the street you will see a CTM bus station.
3) Take a CTM bus to Chefchaouen, pop'n 45,000. Chefchaouen means "Look at the peaks." This is going to be pretty.
4) Arrive in Chefchaouen.
5) You look like a tourist. Everywhere you go men will offer you chocolate. Chocholate is hash, and it's very good. 30 dh (about $3) will buy you a chunk a little bit smaller than a rabbit turd.
6) Hike up one of the mountain sides surrounding the town at dusk. Smoke hash and watch the moon rise while the town lights come on. Listen to the staggered muezin calls emanating from the city's mosques.
7) Next day, explore the surrounding countryside. Chefchaouen is over-touristed and infested with hustlers, but it is surrounded by smaller villages.
8) Find one of these. Settle down. Smoke hash every evening.
9) Etc.

[warsop]

But it's been raining in Northern California for the past couple of days. And cold! I had to turn the heat back on last night.

[amdiranifani]

I'm sure you understand this, but I am not speaking of actual Northern California so much as of the Ideal Northern California of which the actual one is merely a shade.

For example, just as Ideal Northeast is populated by the Brooklyn Dodgers,
Superman and Batman, the Ideal Northern California is populated by... um... surfing Terminator cyborgs, I suppose. Also peach-picking migrants from the Great Plains.

Reality is, of course, somewhat different.