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Joy joy joy!!! Summer is upon us now!!!

Pops
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Good morning EXers!  I am so stoked that it finally looks like we are going to start getting some consistently warm weather around here...At last!  Memorial day around here just puts me in the mood for riding....just something about it...Maybe the "Rollin Thunder" that goes on every year, or just the smell in the air....This weekend, I will be on the Iron Pony heading out to Ohio for some good old fashioned barbeque, and brotherly bonding...

"SMOKEFREE" I might add!  The last time I visited them, they were so sorry to see that I was smoking....They are ecstatic that I have 32 Days of Freedom today as well....Woo Hoo!!!!!  So the bike is tuned up, I bought a couple of extra pair of sunglasses, some sunblock, and my bags will be packed Thursday for the weekend. 

In the meantime, I have to get busy here @ work this morning...I hope all of you have a wonderful start to a new week of life....

Pops with 32 Days of Freedom!!

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Hi, and thanks for stopping by to read my page....My name is Ken Bishop...aka, Pops. I am a stubborn older addict of nicotine....I have quit on numerous occasions in the past, and have experienced great rewards as a direct result of not ingesting deadly toxins into my bloodstream. One of the curses of having a strong constitution that seems to be able to withstand much more than others can...is this...my body would still be able to move around, and get things accomplished even after I was poisoned by the harmful effects of nicotine addiction. Eventually, the harm became so significant, that not even I, with all of my denial...could avoid the truth that to continue to smoke, would most assuredly be the death of me, and in short order as well. On Sept 1st, of 2018...I found myself in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse, and came very near death. I quit messing around, and had a deep and moving spiritual encounter, and have remained sober without one single urge to pick up a drink since. That was after consuming copious amounts of booze for many years in the past. After a short while.. I asked for spiritual help from my creator to make it possible for me to get the same amount of conviction towards finally being able to successfully put down nicotine once and for all...As of....(September 14th, 2019)...I have 17 days of living smokefree! Woo Hoo!!! Friends and family are all very proud and happy for me. They have asked me what I thought was the turning point, after having experienced so many failed attempts before. I simply reply, "I took the God Shot". xoxoxo Pops update: in Dec of 19 when the stock market started going nuts...I used that as an excuse to start smoking again. I see-sawed back and forth for severa months, and when the COVID crisis hit, I simply lost all desire to be smokefree...I was going to smoke & that was final. Well, as always...the pains of excessive injestion of nicotine into my blood stream...(one puff is all it takes) started affecting my everyday life again...I knew I had to quit placating my inner child and grow up and accept a life without nicotine. The normal person would read this and say well duh...finally he's getting it. But the normally addicted nicotine addict would understand...weird huh? So now I'm back with a new quit date of July 8th, 2020 & am hoping that I can accept that as a perfect quit date that does not need to be changed. Thanks for reading and good luck to you in your quit journey. Pops w 4 DOF!