August 19, 2003

What's with this new virus going around?

OK, running around the blogosphere and reading the headlines of an list I am on, I keep reading about another email virus going around. I guess I am not on anyone's email list who is infected because I have not gotten anything like that in my email. It also might be because I fogged the hell out of my computer with cigarette smoke to kill all the virus apreading mosquitoes who might be hiding in there. See, I knew there was a good reason to be a smoker. Between that, and all the great coughing I do, which seems to be great exercise for my abdomen, and, oops, let's not go too far with explaining everything ... yes, TMI warning, and you really do not want to know. While I am on the subject, if you are young, do not smoke or have not smoked long, quit or never start. Seriously. I know this is a do like I say not like I do, but I am an addict. I can't quit or at least I have not found a way yet. It is not like I wished I couldn't do so, but it seems like if I am not smoking, I cannot think straight. I am serious about that. There are benefits to some of the drugs you get from smoking, in my opinion. It is the way they are delivered into your system that is the problem. Now if that was not the greatest circling posting I ever did, I am a monkey's uncle. Wait, now, I am pretty sure I am not related to Frank,* so I had better retract that, just in case I am wrong.

*Hey, I had to snark on someone, didn't I? Besides, maybe it will draw the attention of Glenn Reynolds.

Posted by Tiger at August 19, 2003 11:00 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Nobody sent me any email viri, either....sigh....must be all the cigarette smoke, as you say....

Posted by: Susie at August 19, 2003 11:10 PM

Nobody sent me any email viri, either....sigh....must be all the cigarette smoke, as you say....

Posted by: Susie at August 19, 2003 11:11 PM

Sorry for the duplicate--but your comments seem to take forever to post, and I thought it had gotten lost in cyberspace....

Posted by: Susie at August 19, 2003 11:13 PM

I think you might have posted during a site rebuild. Sorry.

Posted by: Tiger at August 19, 2003 11:29 PM

Hey Terry,
Ask Dadd about addictions.

Posted by: Cherry at August 19, 2003 11:31 PM

Really? What would he have to say?

Posted by: Tiger at August 19, 2003 11:48 PM

Why don't you ask him?

Posted by: Cherry at August 20, 2003 12:47 AM

I HAVE ON ONE OF MY MEMORY SHELVES A BAGGY. I HAVE HAD THIS BAGGY FOR 25 PLUS YEARS. IN THAT BAGGIE IS A HALF
A PACK OF PALL MALL CIGARETTES.....I QUIT MID PACK.

NO LECTURES TO SMOKERS: JUST DON'T SMOKE IN MY CAR, MY HOUSE OR WHEN I'M READING YOUR BLOG!

PEACE
(still screaming with caps.............)

Posted by: oldcatman at August 20, 2003 10:28 AM

Hollering don't help you quit smoking.
Ann and I didn't holler when we quit on my 60th birthday. Neither of us have smoked since. I do crave a really good cigar every once in awhile, but I crave a nice big well done steak sometimes, too.
BUT I GUESS I COULD TYPE IN CAPS. THE WAY TO QUIT SMOKING IS..................JUST QUIT!!!!!!!
P.S. It worked for she and I.

Posted by: Frank at August 20, 2003 03:27 PM

I have been smoke-free since Oct. 10, 2002. This was my second trip to the rodeo.

I smoked from 1969 to 1985, then quit successfully cold-turkey (I was living with a non smoker and working in a non smoking building). I had the occasional cigarette 1985-1998.

In January 1998 my husband, out of the blue, filed for divorce and insisted I move out immediately.

Among other things, I started smoking again.

So I smoked from 1998 to 2002, a pack or more a day.

I decided cigarettes were not my friend. I started w/Wellbutrin on Oct. 1, then did the patch starting Oct. 10, AND went out of town (more or less on vacation) with militant non-smokers. Well, marathon athletes actually. Also I cut out the booze entirely for the month of Oct. I did not follow the step-down directions, but stayed on the top dose for 30 days, then stepped down a little for 10 days, then did the recommended step-down.

Yes I was fuzzybrained for some period of time, AND the nicotine dreams were intense.

You can do it!

Posted by: weezee at August 20, 2003 05:16 PM

I lied about not lecturing you on smoking.........I did it on today's blog!

IS FRANK, ANOTHER COMPUTER NERD, WHO IS POSSESSED WITH THE NOTION THAT I AM SCREAMING WHEN I USE CAPS!

Frank, my boy, I DO IT MY WAY!

Posted by: oldcatman at August 20, 2003 07:21 PM

Frank is a non-blogging local friend of mine who just retired. As for being a nerd, I think not, as he was on WebTV when I first met him. He probably is up on the CAPS mean yelling part, but he is a nice fella, so don't take offense. Not sure where he stands on cats, but he seems to have a good liking for grandkids. ;) He has a whole bunch of cute ones.

Posted by: Tiger at August 20, 2003 07:34 PM

Terry is telling you the straight of it oldcapsman.

Posted by: Frank at August 20, 2003 08:50 PM

I'm superstitious. I didn't want to be #13.

Posted by: Frank at August 20, 2003 09:02 PM