sgt.barney

Leave ... or Deal with it. > Other than talking with them about it, or their rental agency, or the homeowner himself, I don't know what can be done What would you have done as a smoker, right? We all - all of us, would have laughed that one off. Sarge just thinks of it as PayBack. It's our turn now. Easy Peasy

It's not breakfast (Sarge hasn't eaten breakfast regularly since High School (30+ years ago)). It's not blood sugar levels (Sarge was diagnosed "pre-diabetic" mere months before quitting, and has been both hyper, and hypo glycemic at times while getting the diet/exercise under control (totally solid "normal" blood glucose for 3 years running now -- it's amazing what losing 60-ish pounds, a good, solid diet, and exercise can do!)... and yet didn't smoke. Call it what it is: you were a Junkie wanting The Fix and you gave in. You. Gave. In. Simple as that. You can't win at this game without that kind of blunt honesty. Say it: "I had a choice." "I gave in the The Junkie" "I CHOSE to smoke." "It wasn't the blood sugar". "It wasn't the recently found cigarettes" "It wasn't the wine" "It was me" "ALL me and ONLY me." "Me." Easy Peasy

If I told you I *was* Donald ... would you believe me? ;) Sarge & Mrs Sarge at a couple of last year's Marathons. Sarge only ran Half Marathons last year (13.1 miles - getting too damned old for The Full Monte 26.2) Flying Pig Marathon (Cincinnati 2015) Air Force Marathon (Dayton 2015) Bet it doesn't look like Donald any more. Easy Peasy

> It was November 17, 2004, the eve of the 28th Great American Smokeout... Coincidences, right? Sarge accidentally quit on The Great American Smokeout, 2011 (Nov 17th). It was unintentional - pure random chance. Didn't know it until several months later. Easy Peasy

Sarge's favorite selfie - July 2011 somewhere @ aproximately 11,000 ft. Should have shaved that zz-top beard prior to the jump. Easy Peasy

Mind over matter. If you don't mind ... it don't matter. Easy Peasy

Easy Peasy

If your vaJayJay has "cobwebs" ... you might have issues. Easy Peasy

Many here know Sarge ... lost ... one o' the boys a few years back. Just prior to the surgery, he thought it would be a good idea to ... do some mowing of the lawn, so to speak... Turns out they don't like that prior to surgery. It's an infection risk. Micro-cuts and unseen/uunfet nicks and lacerations can open the door for Bad Boys to enter. Additional antibiotics, sterilization and cleanup delayed the surgery by over 2 hours. The surgical staff he'd Sarge that day. EDIT: OH - when they tell you not to eat or drink prior to surgery ... don't show up to the ER chewing gum. They don't like that either. "What's the problem, Doc? I didn't eat or drink. It's chewing gum, right?" ... Extra anti nauseau/anti-barf agent for this one, STAT! Easy Peasy

Sarge *knows* he has done permanent, long-term damage to himself. 27 years of 30-a-day doesn't buy a Pass. The only questions are "When will it show up?" and "How bad will it be?" The good news is, statistically (barring obvious statistical outliers like your step-pops) - the sooner we quit, the better off we are. Quit now, folks. Easy Peasy

Watch them smoke. Have your crave(s). By now, you know how to handle a crave. Deal with it. You can't avoid smokers your whole life, can you? Easy Peasy

Sarge understands probability and statistics. As such he hasn't ever bought a ticket - not even so much as a scratch off. Waste of money. That being said: (1) Legal name change. (2) Disappear for a year overseas (or however long you have to collect). (3) Show up and collect (4) A second legal name change (5) Disappear and travel the world for 3 more years. By then, the looters, beggars, and low life types should have long since given up. Easy Peasy

Sarge is a BeachBody fan, doing a cycle each of P90X, Insanity, and Body Beast (plus a cycle of Couch Potato) every year for the last 4 years. Easy Peasy

Does anyone here remember Vera Lynn? Easy Peasy

The one thing Sarge never gave up was his alcohol He gave up fast food, and junk food, and soda, and coffee (although he jumped off the wagon on that one)... he gave up being a couch sloth, quit a high stress job, and quit farking smoking ... but the one thing he never thought of giving up was his alcohol. Sarge's Cider from The Orchard is his Elixir of Life. The Wines from the yard (from Blackberry, to Strawberry, to Elderberry - you name it (Gooseberry Wine, anyone? There a 5-gallon batch from last summer's harvest) fill hundreds of gallons of bottles in the basement... The Moonshine Still runs at least once a year... I *DO* love booze <== (Rare first person Sarge Sighting) Easy Peasy

Bah Humbuging Easy Peasy

Double Stack Easy Peasy

It, indeed, CAN, in fact be too late. Don't let it get to be too late, right? Easy Peasy

The year? Very important. The ticker? An irrelevant raster image file beamed over http. Sarge assures you: at some point you won't give a rats ass about any ticker, it will have been years since you've seen it, the numbers and calculations will be a faded memory, decades gone ... but the important fact will remain - you will still be a nonsmoker, ticker or not. Easy Peasy

Ticker? It ain't important. Just keep on keepin' on. Easy Peasy

At least once a month, right? Easy Peasy

Sarge just has a hate/hate arrangement. He hates it. Totally. But he must run. He must ... or he's a fat, overweight, arthritic, hypertensive, high cholesterol, borderline diabetic, smoker. If he does not run, he becomes, once again, all of those (and worse). So ... Sarge must run, and run he does. Run, Sarge, run. Easy Peasy

This was Sarge's name when he joined this forum. He thinks he'll keep it a while ... Easy Peasy

At least another 30 ... 35 to go. We'll see you there, too. Easy Peasy

Cut that shit out, right? Easy Peasy