A year and a half later, nicotine cessession, and a ketchup robot

I quit updating my blog about a year and a half ago because I was stretching myself pretty thin between work, my other work, and raising a son.  I was pretty drained from putting in overtime at the repair shop (my job), writing and researching trivia (my other job), and making sure all of my possessions didn't catch on fire somehow (raising my son).  But excuses are dumb, i have more time now, so I'm back.  I had been thinking about starting writing again, but it took a random message from a friend to get me back on the horse (thanks Jack!).

So what did I get done in my year and a half off?  Well, I read a lot of books.  I watched a lot of TV.  I played a lot of video games.  I wrote a lot of trivia.  I fixed a lot of instruments.  and...

I quit smoking.

I have been wanting to quit for a long time.  Having Charlie in my life helped me really get focused on actually quitting.  The good folks at Cignot (an electronic cigarette specialty store) set me up with a good vaporizer to help with the nicotine cravings.  It has been about 4 months without a cigarette and i have already stepped down twice on the strength of nicotine in my liquid (i will go into more depth about e-cigarette culture later).  I feel fantastic.  i am definitely not where i would be if i never started smoking in the first place, but i am a far cry better than i was six months ago.

So thats about it.  I worked, I tried to keep up with Charlie, I quit smoking.  That's about all you missed.  Well, those things, and a Ketchup robot, dispensing ketchup to the 20th Century Fox theme played on an Recorder (It says flute in the description, but i know the sound of a recorder when i hear it)

Hope your year and a half was as good as mine.  

-J