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Pops is alive @ 105!!!

Pops
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Good afternoon EXers!!! Well, all was well on the return trip home to see the boys....(except for the speeding ticket I got on the Pennsylvania Turnpike...grrr)  I was in such a hurry, I forgot the speed limit drops to 55 after going through the Allegheny tunnel....shoot.  Oh well, this too shall pass.  So the holidays were a real hoot in Ohio, but I was homesick for my cats, and my home group meetings as well.  I attended alot of meetings while I was in Ohio, but nonetheless, I missed my corp group of friends.  We are all going out on another motorcycle trip tomorrow.  Not far, Leesburg, Virginia is all.  It will be good to straddle the iron pony again too.  I went out to the garage to check on it, and I do believe it missed me too...lol.

The homecoming to Mac & Cheese was wonderful.  At first they sort of snubbed me for being gone so long...but Pops knew how to put the squash on that noise.  As soon as I picked up their food dish, they were rubbing on my legs and purring like diesel engines...Last night, they finally let me rub their bellies...now they jump up on the bed and lay on their backs waiting for me to scratch and rub their tummies....as that is what good "Pops" do isn't it?  

On the work front, I see the government hasn't made any forward movement towards getting us furloughed employees back into action...Oh well....this too shall pass.  Fortunately, I am drawing social security and have enough shored up in savings to survive the shutdown for awhile.  However, there are many co-workers that aren't that blessed.  Many of them are living paycheck to paycheck.  We got our last check on the 31st of Dec.  But, if we aren't back to work on the 14rh...that is when all hell will break loose for both sides of this rediculous and childlike behavior squabble.  I am not voicing any preference to either side, as I don't feel that either of them are worthy of my approval.  I just hope that the voters once again will go to the polls and fire the entire lot of them.  NO INCUMBENT returns!  

In any case....smoking isn't going to make the situation anymore palatable.

NOPE....I simply do NOT do that anymore.....

Okay, it is time for me to get something to eat.  I brought back a couple of dozen "Garlic Poor Boy" sausages.  They are to die for.  I like to mix them in with some sauerkraut and swiss cheese for a hoagie sandwich to die for.

xoxoxoxox Pops with 105 DOF  Woo Hoo!!!!!IMG_E0443.JPG

My niece in England said that I look like a viking, so I put in these viking runes just for her.....

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My biggest item on my "bucket list" is to travel every mile of route 66 on my Harley..

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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!