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Seems the serenity was needed after all....

Pops
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Good evening EXers,

Last weekend was a gorgeous weekend for going out in the country on the Harley.  I had a scrumptous greek dinner in a rural town north of here on Sunday, and followed it up with a relaxing country ride.  (see banner of a national park in the Antietem area just north of here.  Wonderful feeling of freedom just staring at this old electrical generating dam from back in the civil war years...Just breathtaking scenery when you take the time to go out and wander.

Well, I was wearing a new pair of jeans that I just got on Friday.  Apparently, the back pocket is a bit loose.  Because I noticed Monday night as I was about to go to the store for some food, that my wallet was missing!  It seems soemwhere along my country drive of about 75 miles...I must have went over a bump, and my wallet must have come out of my back pocket and ended up somewhere in the countyside! ;-(....

I sure am glad that I had gotten a bit of that nervana from the day before.  Let me tell you...it was quite stressful contacting my credit card companies to cancel my cards and order replacements.  Fortunately, I had a couple of other cards in my kitchen drawer to use until my replacements arrive in about 10 days.  I had to buy a duplicate drivers license, registration for my car and motorcycle both.  I then decided that it was time to enroll in LifeLock, as someone now has my social security number, and drivers license.  (They could really reak havoc on my credit if I hadn't acted when I did.)  At least now, all of my personal info will now be protected by a continual monitoring agency that will pay for legal fees up to 1 million dollars if I need to contest a fraudulent action.  

After all of that, I still didn't feel a need to smoke, because after all....I do not do that anymore.....and life just keeps rolling along.

Have a great evening.....

Popsw/104 DOF!

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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!