Wow guys, thanks for the supportive replies!  I'm glad you enjoyed my story, I certainly enjoyed experiencing it.  It's nice to find a place where sharing something like that won't get a man ostracized or imprisoned.

Regarding extraction, I definitely intend to extract some eventually, provided my initial experiences don't go sour, but at the moment my small apartment is no place to be playing with kitchen chemistry.

I appreciate the idea of not expecting or demanding too much from the trip, my last few journeys with mushrooms have started with an open mind set, ready and happy to receive whatever they gave me, and I intend to approach DMT similarly.  I had even considered splitting my small supply into a few deliberately less intense trips just to familiarize myself with the more earthbound effects, but I think I'll at least attempt breakthrough.  If I don't succeed I'll still get the basics.

I intended to just use my acrylic bong with some water in it and sandwich between some green, but I'm starting to think that this is something best experienced on it's own.  My other options were to pick up a small glass pipe or to look further into oral ingestion.  I would honestly much prefer it that way, I'm just not read up enough on methods.  That's where my current research is going.  I've also considered making changa, but for a first time I don't think that's the way to go.

olympus, I totally know what you mean about the science-y character!  Usually on the back half of my journeys I have a lot of Jekyll and Hyde or Flash Gordon Space Adventurer kind of thing going, after the power dies down and I'm just playing music, watching 'toons, gunning the motor and whatnot.  Sci-fi anime is awesome in this mode!

So again guys, thanks for the welcome and the support, all the links and advice!  Hopefully things work out well and I can hang around and become an asset to future new bloods.