Lovely Sunday afternoon in New England. Mid 50′s outside, the sun is shining… Just got back from a 5k (or so) run around MIT and along the river. I’ve been pretty consistently exercising every day for the past couple of months, and along with quitting smoking and eating better, I’m getting into something that’s disturbingly [...]
Over the past few days, I’ve totally slipped off of my quitting path. Tomorrow I recommit myself. Jeff, don’t throw the cat in the shower with me, I’m trying damnit. Mom, no I don’t want to go to the Zapper. Now, all of you should go read about how the internet works in the prior [...]
A few random updates…. Still working on the no cigarettes thing… The gym near my office opened Sunday, went and played BBall today at lunch, it’s going to be a daily destination from now on… Discovered that I misread the on-call schedule: I was on call yesterday, when I didn’t have my phone with me, [...]
Clearly should have figured this one out, but going out drinking with a bunch of frisbee people, and not smoking, aren’t very compatible. God damn it! The upside is that they’re a fun group, and I like hanging out with them. The downside is that after a couple of beers (or maybe four) I really [...]
Back up to 36 hours, and this time I’m not going to cheat. I won’t I won’t I won’t I won’t I won’t. Right this minute I really want a cigarette, but I’m not going to do it. I’m not I’m not I’m not I’m not…
Okay, I’m not Jewish, the title of this post was just the most ridiculous thing that I could think of off the top of my head… A rather massive catching-up post… Tomorrow is final, once-and-for-all, quit day. That’s exciting. No more cheating, no more excuses. It’s now the 27th of December, Christmas is over, family [...]
December 28 is the day. The quit-altogether, no-more-cheating, out-of-my-life-forever date. No going back. Only forward.
Ooh, look, more columnists for sale! Where have we heard this one before? On the other hand, for a short time only, there’s a Christmas sale going on…Abramoff had to pay $2,000 for an op-ed supporting his clients. I hear the asking price is down to $1,500.* [* - note, asking price for an op-ed [...]
From Slate, some Suggestions on cleaning up pro wrestling. Important stuff, that. Weighty, some might even say… Oh, and I haven’t had a cigarette today. My own mother has condoned violence against my person if I continue to smoke. Hrm.
Brought up by a conversation with Lauren (on this proposal to build a tidal generator on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island), I started looking around for information on tidal energy, and eventually tracked my way to the wikipedia page on Tides. Interesting little tidbit (that I doubt anyone else finds all that interesting, but which [...]
Okay, no cigarettes today…I’m back on the wagon… It occurs to me that it’s the time of the year when people tend to buy things for other people, and give them to them. So, for the pleasure of those who might be thinking of getting me things, any of these would be good: Tuition to [...]
So I made it 69 hours, but then I cheated again. Had a very long, and very miserable day at work today, and it wore me down. I really, really hate my job right now. I described my current situation earlier as being like “standing underneath a falling anvil [our coming build], with no ability [...]
Excellent discussion of the meaning of the holidays going on over on Taz’s blog. Wonderful stuff. I would suggest starting with Jeff threatening people because this season annoys him quite a bit. (This will also explain why I hid my roommate’s weapons.) Then go on to Jeff explaining why the “America is a Christian Country” [...]
Anna’s post “give in to love or live in fear” takes the Massachusetts Family Institute to task. It’s very well written, and makes many excellent points that are worth reading. (For those who are wondering, the Massachusetts Family Institute is the group spearheading the campaign to get a ban on gay marriages placed on the [...]
…I love you all. No cigarettes today, and this isn’t the kind of day that makes going outside to smoke very tempting. At the moment, it’s snowing at a couple inches an hour. Thunder and lightning, too, and all kinds of fun stuff like that. It’s awful! I don’t think this is the end days, [...]
So I wimped briefly this evening, and had a couple of drags off a cigarette…I’m beginning to understand what drags addicts back in… This is deadly. My stomach is in knots, I can’t focus on much of anything, and I spend my free moments trying to figure out how to cheat without really cheating… Ugh.
So, still haven’t had a cigarette since Tuesday….tempted, to be sure, but haven’t had one… It has all kinds of fun little effects, like making my stomach churn, and making me very distracted from everything going on around me. I almost feel bad for the people that I’ve been talking to this afternoon…the non sequitors [...]
Okay, it’s time to try this quitting smoking thing again, since the first time didn’t work out very well. The last time I tried to quit, I thought I’d just go cold turkey. Just quit. Leave it at that. Turns out, that’s a rather difficult trick to pull off. I was pulled back in less [...]