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Wonderful Wednesday

Pops
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Good morning...almost afternoon....EXersToday is a great day to be smokefree....besides, it's Wednesday, and I never smoke on Wednesday...so I'm pretty sure my quit is in good shape for today.  I walked into my office this morning @ about 7:00, and there was a local "crier" in our office space standing on his soapbox and just spewing out all sorts of contentiousness remarks of just how terrible things are in our workplace and didn't we see for ourselves just how the upper level management was out to get all of us, and that none of us had any stability in our jobs anymore?!!!

It was at that point that I thought to myself, "here I am trying to get settled in so that I can get to work on the days task, and this idiot is doing anything BUT what he is supposed to be doing...."  Yep, I agree there butthead, "your job is in jeopardy for sure".  geez....how does that expression go??? "It's hard to soar like an eagle, when you're working around all of these turkeys..."  Oh well, enough of the negativity.  

I have found a silver lining to the dark cloud.  I have plenty to do in a few other buildings onsite & am taking the opportunity to go out and check on my contractors work progress.  I just don't get it....why can't people understand the concept of "just do what is in front of you & the rest will work itself out?"  

I am so glad to be able to walk outside and not feel the need to stop @ the smoking pole and stand around the entryways and exits of the buildings and advertise to the upper level management just how much of my day is spent not being productive because of a deadly and selfish practice of slow motion suicide....

The weather is actually pretty nice today...Not nice enough for a bike ride, but certainly nice enough for a brisk walk.

I hope all of you can enjoy the rest of your Wednesday "smokefree."

Pops /162 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!