New Year's Resolutions

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Martin:
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*dingly* *ding*, bloody *ding*

 

I've never seen you smoke less than five a day.

But I enjoy it because I put myself in the position of having cravings in
the first place. As I said if it was really enjoyable in and off itself then
we'd love it from the word go.

 

Ben Blaney emerged from their own little world to say

After 17th Jan. I've got 2 more essays to complete then I have to do some
preliminary work before the interrogation begins.

 

It's just this effect you have on me...

Seriously, I do smoke a lot more in some situations (especially when
drinking) than others, although less than you might think. On our road
trip last year, for example, the most I smoked was probably about ten
in a day, and not on every day. In any event, my (approximated)
average of five a day takes these occasions into account, in that most
normal work days I'll only have one or two in the evening at home.

I've always loved it. Your argument breaks down if you applied it to
harder drugs, like H, for example. It makes you feel good, even the
first time.

 

Apparently my argument has broken down anyway if you've always loved it and
the heroin example is redundant. However, heroin is not nicotine and
therefore not necessarily subject to the same addiction laws. Also, heroin
has a fairly unpleasant effect on first time users I'm reliably informed.

 

You've obviously not gone Yorkshire yet then.

"There's naht s'queer as folk".

 

I guess people are different in Alan Carr's giving up book he says that "no
one" can find smoking enjoyable- which is rubbish and lets down an otherwise
excellent book.

*You* are.

 

On Sunday night, I ran out of baccy. Next multipack was due in
Tuesday. I went to the garage on Monday morning and bought a 12.5 gram
pack, cost = 2.25. It will last me the rest of the day, on my new
mini-fag regime, so 3 full days. I was therefore a bit optimistic on
my 'fiver a week' thing; it was more like a tenner on the fat fags. I
never take to work (I work 1.30 - 6.30), so I smoke in the mornings
and evenings only. I think that's quite moderate, and I'm really
pleased with my new cutting down strategy.

I bet.
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"You're a national treasure" - porl, 18.1.03

 

Everyone is to me!

 

porl wrote

as ------ is to ------

 

Read it.

 

Hmm. Not far off. I reckon I've got 3000 books in storage. More
worryingly, I've got 800usd in my amazon.com basket and 400ukp in my
amazon.co.uk basket.

 

Now your PVR project is over, you should investigate getting a USB
barcode reader to work with something like
http://www.collectorz.com/book/

It's probably a good idea for insurance purposes.

I just replaced the copy of Paul Auster's Music Of Chance [0] which I
lent to someone *year* ago, and appear to have never got it back.


[0] Great book. Auster's first, I believe.

 

Just let me know, yeah.

I'll get my old man to do one, too.

 

She'll forget. Buy her a new cooker, or summat. Distract her.

 

There's a similar one for the Mac, but it uses the iSight video camera - you
just wave your CD/book/DVD in front of it, and it gets catalogued by the
power of "magic"

http://www.delicious-monster.com/

 

Howard Becker's book "Outsiders", which involved participant
observation of drug-taking jazz musicians had similar themes.

 

I'll give up then.

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Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
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I've just bought her a new tumble drier, so I might float the idea that I
need a shite old car to do the school run, so that I don't wreck the Fiat
doing it.

Hmmm, I wonder if the garage down the road from me have still got that cheap
Audi 80 Quattro.

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