Kevin's Watch

i used to smoke - for about 3/4 years. cigs/cloves and a pipe. i only miss the pipe.

I have never smoked anything. Nor do I wish to.

I once smoked a cigar during a bar fight in London.

Smoke triggers my migraines. However, I adore the smell of cherry pipe tobacco.

I smoked for years until many years ago now when I went cold-turkey while on deployment in the middle of the Indian Ocean when I was in the Navy...somewhere in the middle of 113 days straight at sea. Can't recall now why I picked that specific time and place to quit, but glad I did.

I will be legally single in less than 44 hours.

Cail wrote:I will be legally single in less than 44 hours.

Congratulations or condolences?

i can not imagine in my head a motorcycle staying upright on a kickstand. ever in my life.

Auleliel wrote:

Cail wrote:I will be legally single in less than 44 hours.

Congratulations or condolences?

Congratulations. I'm due in court in 2 hours and 15 minutes.

So luck would be good too.

Good luck

I've never ridden a motorbike - been on the back of one but couldn't ride one to save my life

Any vehicle devoid of armor and staying power frightens the hell out of me. On the other hand, I've been to court only once and it was scarier. The system is not blind regardless of what people think. In fact it's farseeing, except it only sees what its mandataries, commonly ill-informed persons, choose to see.

Good luck, C-man.-jay

Kil Tyme wrote:I smoked for years until many years ago now when I went cold-turkey while on deployment in the middle of the Indian Ocean when I was in the Navy...somewhere in the middle of 113 days straight at sea. Can't recall now why I picked that specific time and place to quit, but glad I did.

60 days in, the ship's store runs out of smokes, at least the good ones from the States. So you get stale ones. And your choices are Marlboro reds or Newports. That, or you get the family back home to mail you some, but who knows when you'll actually receive them (probably a day or two before pulling into port). Then there's money. If you haven't set up a SeaPay account (which was my case, since they did the set-up in port, and I was flown out to the ship towards the end of the deployment), or if you don't have enough money in it... you have to either join the bums on the smokedeck or stay off it. Or you could've just got tired of nic'ing during helo or refueling ops. Or maybe realizing that smoking two packs a day (what else are you going to do? work?) when the most exercise you've gotten in the last week is walking/climbing from your work center to the mess deck or maybe going up the mast if you're lucky... or on a working party if you're unlucky.

Go Navy.

Gee, Syl, you sound like you're happy you got out.

You don't know sailors very well. I actually miss most of that stuff, especially since some of my best memories of being at sea happened on the smoke deck.

i am an award winning author. back in grade school.

I can't stand to eat a pizza that is devoid of pepperoni.

I was a First Class Girl Scout. (I've still got the pin! )

aliantha wrote:I was a First Class Girl Scout. (I've still got the pin! )

From everything I have heard and seen so far, you should also have been formally recognized as a First Class Girl Scout Leader. If they have such recognition...

You definitely know your stuff.

Aw shucks, thanks.

There are several awards for adults involved in Scouting, but I didn't get involved enough of the Service-Unit-level-and-above activities to be nominated for any of 'em. The folks who get those things eat, sleep and breathe Girl Scouts. Being a leader gave me something to do with the girls, even (especially!) when they were teens; I stuck with it because otherwise there wouldn't have been a troop for my kids to be in. But I disliked (to put it mildly) the Scouting bureaucracy and resisted the efforts of those who tried to drag me into it.

The parents of the girls in our troop gave me plenty of props. That was enough for me.