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I don't wanna smoke. And so far, I haven't. And I won't. I've got almost four days into this now, that's a pretty good investment. Everyone at the hospital is cheering me on, my family is cheering me on, all of my efriends are cheering me on. I love it. I can't let them all down.

I can't let me down.

I'm continuing to get more enthusiastic about being a non-smoker. My sense of smell is returning, I think... anyway, when I go by the smoking area, the smell is disgusting. When I go into a room in the emergency department that has a smoker in it, the smell is disgusting.

Smoking is disgusting. Smokers are disgusting.

I'm afraid that I'm going in the direction I thought I would go in... none of this live and let live shit. Make everybody quit smoking! After all, it's unhealthy... and it's also disgusting! Why should I put up with someone smelling up My world, after all?

On a different subject altogether... my clicker on the front page turned over 3,000 the other day. And my odometer on my Toyota pickup turned over 100,000. Both of these things have similar connotations... age. I have an old pickup and an old site. But that works out OK, 'cause I'm an old guy.

Raining outside right now, it's about 04:00. Outside is the best place for it to be raining, of course. If it rained inside, the computers would get wet, and that would be disgusting and dangerous.

A side effect of the rain and the weather in general: it is very hard to walk. My hip is killing me. Sitting down is OK, even though it still hurts a little bit, but walking is a real pain. And I have to do a lot of walking. Taking a lot of Tylenol tonight. This is the third day of hip pain. Kinda coincides with when I quit smoking... I wonder if that's a coincidence... I don't think that if I started smoking again that it would get any better...

Very tired, very sleepy. I'm expending a lot of energy not smoking. It's much easier just to go to bed and not think about it. It's really hard for me to believe that in a few weeks, my every thought won't be about smoking. Probably only every tenth or twentieth.

I had a really unique experience yesterday. I woke up around 14:00 or so and the TV was on, Dallas was playing. I got to watch about the last ten minutes, when Dallas could've won the game, but instead was intercepted in the end zone. The interception resulted in a 105-yard runback for a touchdown, which put the game out of Dallas' reach. OK, that's not the unique part. The unique part is, I was cheering for Dallas! A friend of mine, a cowboy fan (I know, but he's a nice guy otherwise) went to the game. He'd never been to Texas before, and I'm sure that he enjoyed the game anyway... but I did briefly cheer for Dallas, and I am truly sorry for my behaviour. Rest assured, it will never happen again. I will enjoy ribbing Gerry for the next couple of weeks, though!

OK, time to wrap it up now! Beddy-bye time...

Thank you all for your support!
Day 04 is over! Still No Smoke!