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With all the crap that was in the way

JonesCarpeDiem
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      Remember when I blogged about building a platform to put up the security cameras?

/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2020/01/27/learn-and-plan-before-you-start 

      Well, I didn't plan where to put the monitor very well. It was right above my head. If I swung it forward, it blocked 15% of the large screen.

      It was like siting in the first row of a movie theater. When you're looking at something from that angle things are stretched. Also, the video cable from the video recorder on the top of my TV to the monitor above my head was huge and kept dropping down towards Hoggie's cardboard scratching pad and cramping his style.

   Yep, I took the monitor above my head down (there's two big holes in the wall now)and I took the 27" monitor I haven't been using on the wall above my desk and hung it to the right.

      I think the lithograph a client was throwing away will cover those big holes. It's not like you can see through them, as they terminate in the stud.

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Yes, that's my computer screen hanging from the ceiling.

I had two wives and neither would've let me do this.

Now all I have to do is hang the small monitor back under the desk, put the face frame of that bookcase I had to make removable to get the big monitor in or out back on. Hang that picture and resort re sort  this end of the room. Maybe I'll repaint the area. I have the paint, I have the time. I wonder how Hoggie will look with light yellow fur? 

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.