23 rd March.

23/03/2007

08:22
Turned in last night about 1 ish. Seemed to get tired about 9 then find a new lease of life an hour later. Went to bed thinking I was tired but just laid in bed unable to sleep, Must have been a couple of hours before I got over.
Yet here I am getting up again at 7.45.
Must have had either sufficient sleep of sleep of good quality because I feel fine.
Half the battle is getting up when body is ready without knowing the time, thus I’m often surprised. If I’d have been relying upon an alarm clock I would probably have stretched, turned over and gone back over for a while.
I simply wake, stretch, dress and I’m ready for the day.
Lovely sunny morning to greet the early riser.
Have decided to keep the stumbling down to a couple of hours today, it really is addictive if you have nothing pressing to do with your time.
I could have completed a couple of modules of course work with the time I spent bumming around the sites, but hell, that’s what freedom is all about; doing whatever, whenever.
No stomach churning cravings this morning so looks like I could be in with a chance to get back on track with stopping the smoke. Going for the full six day.
I’ll have to go for another lung test soon so will have to cut them out or the reading will show my deceit.
Have noticed a deteriation in computer performance so going to have a clean up and investigate which services are running, see if I can speed things up a bit.

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/taste_nate.jsp To slow things back down.



Drink 'more harmful than drugs'
Press Association Friday March 23, 2007 5:08 AM
Alcohol is ranked almost as harmful as heroin in a controversial new drug classification system proposed by a team of leading scientists.
The class A drug Ecstasy, possession of which can result in a seven-year prison sentence, is placed near the bottom of the league table which lists "harm scores" for different substances.
LSD, another class A drug, is also considered relatively safe despite its powerful hallucinogenic properties.
Cannabis, recently downgraded to class C, occupies a middle position. It is rated more dangerous than Ecstasy, LSD and the dance floor drug GHB, but less harmful than tobacco.
The table, published in The Lancet medical journal, was drawn up by a team of highly respected scientists led by Professor David Nutt, from the University of Bristol, and Professor Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council.
It is intended to be a model for policy makers which is more scientifically based than the current Misuse of Drugs Act system that attaches "a, b, and c" labels to illicit drugs.
The scientists identified three main factors that together determined the harmfulness of a controlled substance.
These were: the physical harm to the individual user caused by the drug, the tendency of the drug to induce dependence, and the effect of the drug's use on families, communities and society.
Unsurprisingly, the results placed heroin at the head of the table with an overall "harm score" of 2.7, followed by cocaine which scored 2.3.
But more controversially, alcohol is ranked as the fifth most dangerous drug, scoring just under 2 on the table.
© Copyright Press Association Ltd 2007, All Rights Reserved.

http://soryelectronics.com/blog/?p=6 May not interest everyone, refers to rootkit.


I spent a couple of hours tidying up and going through the mail from the last month or so;
Read through statements and sorted finances out.
Quite pleased with result, magazines, may still unread piled neatly on a shelf and important letters etc filed away for later reference.

All that remains to be done now is the hovering and this room is finished.
My mind is having a go at me; three times in the last hour I’ve got up, put money in pocket and was adamant I was off to the shop for either baccy or a packet of ten cigarettes,
The fact that my mind was considering purchasing cigarettes puzzled me because I haven’t smoked a tailor made for decades, ( unless given one to break up for joint).
The idea of the packet of ten was to enable me to pig out on them and they would be finished before I retired to bed.

Was quite a struggle,” talking myself out of going to the shop,”
I decided to appease some of the craving by making myself a couple of fried egg sandwiches, I had been just a little optimistic trying to include a couple of fried tomatoes in between the slices.
First bite, yellow ooze creeping down my fingers, lubricating the way for the tomato to come hurtling out when I took the second bite.

What caused the sudden craving for a cigarette?
Probably me getting irritated because I have no knowledge whatsoever of how to customise my blog by adding some of the more common features found on other sites.
Yes I have tried to follow the instructions and tried cut and paste,
(was unsure about where I was pasting!).
The preview did show some alterations to font and placement but no sign of the button I had expected to see after pasting code into what I guessed was the sidebar section.
Luckily I had saved a copy of the template but simply used the revert to return to what I could recognise.

I’ve cleared away all temp. files and cookies so hopefully the machine will speed up again, without too many problems.

2:26 PM could murder a rollie, or better still a joint!
I take a deep breath and place the well chewed piece of gum back into my mouth, no it isn’t nicotine gum, just ordinary, flavourless, past its best Wrigley’s.

After he was defeated by the Americans in Texas,
Mexican General Santa Anna was exiled to New York.
Like many of his countrymen, Santa Anna chewed chicle.
( A gum extracted from the chicle or naseberry tree).

One day he introduced it to inventor Thomas Adams, who began experimenting with it as a substitute for rubber. Adams tried to make toys, masks, and rain boots out of chicle, but every experiment failed.
Sitting in his workshop one day, tired and discouraged, he popped a piece of surplus stock into his mouth.
In 1870, he opened the world’s first chewing gum factory making Adams New York No. 1.
1891 Wrigley Chewing Gum founded by William Wrigley Jr.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/chewgum.htm

Like I said, it’s going to be a long day, going to be fighting each hour till bedtime, when hopefully I’ll get the relief of innocent sleep and wake up with the Nicotine banished from my system.
A part of my brain is sneering, “Oh yea, let’s wait and see.”
Jaws working overtime, fingers typing to pass the time and take mind of wanting a smoke.

Light incense or a candle instead of a cigarette. Charming suggestion, but bloody hard to get a draw off.
Another suggestion is go outside; if I leave the flat I’ll be to the nearest tobacconists like a whippet out of the trap.
Where you are and what is going on can make you crave a cigarette.
A change of scene can really help. Go outside, or go to a different room.
You can also try changing what you are doing.
Living in a one bedroomed flat doesn’t offer a vast range of rooms, I could sit on the porcelain and freeze my butt off, stand in the kitchen and eat the contents of the freezer, (fridge already empty).
Change what I’m doing?
I have a chair, a computer and a monitor in the room; the room is for one purpose and one purpose only; for me to sit in chair and use P.C. or watch TV.
Good news is the cravings and mind games only last for a week or so.
I’m chewing this gum at a hell of a rat of knots; just hope I don’t I bite myself with the razor sharp teeth I seem to have developed recently.
The damage to my teeth has of course been put down to,
Smoking.
I do not worry because there are not enough to worry about, they would all fall out if it wasn’t for the crown giving them something to cling to.
My upper jaw is receding, once side is a good quarter of an inch different from the other.
Apparently the gum line can be returned to its natural contours by the addition of material directly into the jaw under the skin of the gum.
A trip to Budapest is apparently all the rage because of the savings to be had from the dentists who operate there.
http://www.access-smile.com/

I did take the time to suss a couple of sites out but to replace and repair my ugly mush would incur a bill of thousands.
But I would definitely consider having it done if I had the money.

My dentist informs me “I have a savage bite”, resulting from extractions during my school years by over zealous dentists.
My top teeth bite down in front of the bottom gum line and because of this my teeth up top have been worn away from the actions of the bottom teeth against their rear.
That’s as clear as mud, but hell who gives a shit?

http://video.stumbleupon.com/ - p=gztgufd1ji is a link to a vid. About a kid with amazing powers developed after losing his eyes to cancer.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=xc34g19an5 Chinese guy demonstrating how to play drums on a keyboard.

6 reasons not to get high. http://ninjapirate.com/whynot.html

Smoking site! http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.urbangrower.com/

Forget the music watch the skill. http://www.robmonroe.net/video/percusienfa

Can some foods make you smarter?
Research shows that nuts and seeds just might boost your brainpower and balance your moods. That's right, everything from the most common nuts -- such as walnuts, hazelnuts, cashews and almonds -- to the more exotic seeds and nuts can clear up that "brain fog...

Nuts for nutters?


This piece is finding its way around the world, there is a longer version but this is sufficient to get the flavour. No one knows the originator, so no apologies.

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats that have raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved”.
Soon though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross”. Londoners have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance”.
The last time “A Bloody Nuisance” warning level was during the great fire of 1666.
Also, the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide”.

5:02 PM
Am watching clock, chewing gum and trying like hell to not think about smoking.

Ever wondered what to say when the kids ask about pregnancy?
http://websrvr40nj.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdsnjwebsrvr4501/portal/media/media-050516-pregnancy.html Long link, short film.