Last week was developmentally slow. This week will be slow too.
Posted by: Ruel Knudson in Developer Blog, E-RPG General Development, Personal PostDue to a string of doctor appointments for my 2 year old daughter (she has a handicap that requires strings of tests periodically) I was severely hampered in my time to focus on development. This week is different, I am choosing to take some time off for one good reason, I need to minimize my level of stress for the next few days while my body attempts to withdraw form a nicotine addiction.
Yes, I was, until today, one of the few, the proud, the smoker. Cigarettes have been a part of my life from the very beginning. My father smoked (as his father before him did). I grew up in a time when smoking in front and around your kids was fine. By the time my father quite about ten years ago, I had my own 5 year long habit. Now, here in Florida, prices have jumped to $6 a pack. Not too big a deal really. I had already cut back to a pack every 3-4 days. However, if I play a loose week, which I have been here and there, that could still be a pack every 2 days. At best, we are still looking at 12 bucks a week, which is almost 50 bucks a month. At worse, it gets close to $100. How in the world to I justify being out of work and smoking $100 worth of cigarettes to my family? You don’t.
There are alternatives, such as buying them online for less and such. However, in my mind, if it has to go so far that I can’t walk down the street for a pack, I have to send for them, there is a problem. I don’t like being addicted to it, but I really don’t like the idea of looking like a frickin junky over it.
Nicotine is gone form your body in three days. After that, there is a mental dependancies I need to overcome. I am not afraid of that. I can handle the mental part. The first three days are going to be hell. So, here I go.
Day one…
