“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”
- Samuel Johnson
And thus, my quixotic attempt at leaving the realm of the smoker has come to an abrupt and inglorious end. For a full 24 hours, I agonized and eulogized over the end of my days as a smoker, but in the end, the affect of the addiction was more worthy than the effects of the affliction. If any of you have quit smoking or tried and failed (as I have done now for a second time), you know this is not an easy undertaking, especially if your heart isn’t in it (as mine was not). I know that the end of my smoking days is nigh, but yet again she lures me back to her warm smoky bosom…yes…yes…mebbe I’ll just cut down…
It’s good to be back, folks…smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
b
- Samuel Johnson
And thus, my quixotic attempt at leaving the realm of the smoker has come to an abrupt and inglorious end. For a full 24 hours, I agonized and eulogized over the end of my days as a smoker, but in the end, the affect of the addiction was more worthy than the effects of the affliction. If any of you have quit smoking or tried and failed (as I have done now for a second time), you know this is not an easy undertaking, especially if your heart isn’t in it (as mine was not). I know that the end of my smoking days is nigh, but yet again she lures me back to her warm smoky bosom…yes…yes…mebbe I’ll just cut down…
It’s good to be back, folks…smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
b
posted by bd @ 5/24/2004 07:01:00 PM
3 Comments:
At 5:03 PM,
Anonymous said…
Ben Dietz is alive and well...wow! Glad to see you're alive and still smoking. :)
-Stace
At 5:57 PM,
bd said…
yow! good to know that my 8 month layoff didn't alienate everyone...how you doin'?
At 11:22 AM,
Anonymous said…
Fantastic. And yourself?
I heard a rumor you are all short-haired and neat and tidy...what happened to the Dietz we all knew and loved?
For a second with hearing that and the (gasp) quitting smoking thing, I thought someone may have taken over your body. Glad to see that's not the case.
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