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Friday September 07, 2012 · 4:39 PM PDT

2012/09/07 · 16:39

We may lose this election but I strongly doubt that. The Republican philosophy just cannot stand up against the Democratic point of view.

This nation was founded on the idea that a bunch of people talking together about solutions to problems is a wiser method than concentrating the decision making process into too few nutjobs.

Republicans are still trying to sell the idea that a nation of individuals can reach better conclusions than a herd of cats. A herd of cats that has spots, stripes, grey fur, orange fur, long tails and short and none at all, rocks better when everyone is welcome at the food bowl. The extreme elements of the dialogue just don't seem to get the point, we work better together

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Friday August 24, 2012 · 8:06 PM PDT

2012/08/24 · 20:06

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Thursday July 12, 2012 · 5:05 AM PDT

2012/07/12 · 05:05

GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are quitting or thinking of quitting (or want to support quitters), please - join us! We kindly ask that politics be left out.
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Writing a GUS diary is a great way to pick up a few new skills. Reading them is a great way to meet a nice bunch of new people who will help share the pain of quitting in the first few months. It really is a nice distraction from your brain's old habits screaming at you during the first days of your quit.

I did any and everything during the first few hours to distract myself from the withdrawal symptoms. Fortunately I had set aside a couple days to hide in the house while my body was flushing out the nasty nicotine. And fortunately that was all that was really needed to get over the worst of it. I drank a few extra India Pale Ales and smoked some mullein once or twice, but all that really did was drag the process out a little longer: no biggie. After a LONG weekend of essentially cold turkey it was down to the waiting game, proving that I was more stubborn than my weenie habits. Your Mileage Will Vary, but find whatever works for you.

I wandered around Daily Kos and read a bunch of great stuff, learning more than I really wanted to know but needed to anyway. I hung out at GUS for hours. I listened to and watched music over at U2b [You Tube] for days. I shredded the old habits and spit them out. I invented a new, improved self from the ashes.

It was all about learning how to ignore these impulses that were trying to tell me "You won't feel crappy if you just have a cigarette" How F@(%#D UP is that? But I made it through. A couple of days, then a week. Two! ! ! Game Over. I won. I knew I had won even though the monkey was still there; it was shriveled and ugly and I didn't want to go through that again to get here. I had toughed it out; it was actually rather easy to get into the quit for several days and then just a little more patience was needed. Just a little more distraction and my body would flush itself of a bad, bad habit.

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Sunday June 24, 2012 · 5:05 AM PDT

2012/06/24 · 05:05

GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. We avoid discussion of political issues. If you are quitting or even thinking about quitting, please -- join us! GUS Library at dKosopedia is organically evolving, and stocked with free-range information: quit-smoking links, helpful GUS diary writing tips, and the GUS buddy list.

I really enjoyed yesterday's guest yoga GUS and want to do my own personal smoking story one day. But this was the idea that was itching the back of my mind so away we go.

In the beginning moments of my quit I found too much oxygen in my brain and no cigarettes to distract it with. A few new habits and hobbies are just the ticket.

Walking is about the best exercise, mostly because it only costs a little time. Around the block when a craving needs to be walked away from or around town when a little more time can be invested. I noticed many things that I overlooked before, like the Fennel family that had spread itself following the overflow water ditch down from the Town's water tanks up the hill, probably all the way to where the water goes underground a couple miles from here. I plan on harvesting pounds of seeds this Fall. Find a free or cheap bicycle and ride around the block before tackling the hill uptown, that is my next goal [fix the front flat tire and GO!]

Although I had started gardening a little over the last few years, what better hobby to dump all this new found time just laying around asking to be filled. You have never tasted a tomato better than one you [or a close neighbor] grew. You have never tasted a tomato as good as a sun hot fresh off the vine, after a while without tobacco. That can be some powerful magic, completing a circle and telling yourself, "WOW! I am Really glad I quit smoking! That tomato...!!..@#...$*&!!! There are no word to describe." And Cooking! o m god! Now that everything is a new taste and aroma experience for a while, learn new food things. My latest pink version of sauerkraut is starting to smell like it will cure everything that ails me. There really are perfumes coming up out of the dark.

Find a cool new website to hang at [like Dkos, fer instance,] and learn some new computer skills, like writing a GUS diary. Really, gotta do something with those fidgety fingers.

How to write a GUS diary the easy way.

It might be a little difficult, for a really short while honestly, to quit. But it is so worth it because, well, you got the picture.................. Read More

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Tuesday April 10, 2012 · 5:11 PM PDT

2012/04/10 · 17:11

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Wednesday April 04, 2012 · 6:32 PM PDT

2012/04/04 · 18:32

Storms rolling through your neighborhood and clubhouse can be more exciting. There is no nasty morning after lungs from smoking too much trying to stay calm in the middle of it all.

The trick for me to give up smoking was to find some things to replace knee jerk habits that go along with the whole nico-thing. [Open the pack, tap one out, light up, etc. etc. etc.]

I quit cold turkey twice back in the last millennium, for three and four years. So I had to learn the Jedi Mind Tricks back then, but I knew that they worked and would help no matter which way I tried it this time. I either stopped whatever I was doing and focused my entire attention on the craving, causing it to banish itself [seriously], or completely ignored the craving very diligently, and learned to ignore it in a Zen way where I didn't give it much energy. Then, it is just a matter of a little time, turning into a bigger time. Somebody pointed out to beware of the terrible threes; three days, three weeks, three months; and that actually seems to have a little truth even if it doesn't happen exactly at those moments, it is close enough in timing to help you be strong for a couple extra moments then. Before you know it, almost a year will have gone by and you feel like you can start breathing freely, that you have succeeded. You will have, just don't have a cigarette like I did, after three years or four years. You could go right back to a pack a day in 24 hours, just like I did. I am hoping I remember this time and the third time is the charm. It is.

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Tuesday January 10, 2012 · 5:04 PM PST

2012/01/10 · 17:04

My friend and I have made a decent living in the remodeling business for the last twenty years. We make new cabinets for kitchens, living rooms etc. and install them for private homes and various motels in the area. When the economy crashed, life became very difficult for many months when nobody did any home or motel improvements.

We were asked to give a bid recently for some new cabinets at a motel we have done a lot of work at a few years ago. We were underbid by a company that got them made by a prison, marked them up and shipped them. You read that right, we can't compete with prison labor that is paid 75 cents or a dollar an hour.

FishOutofWater posted a diary about arrests at schools in Texas for some relatively minor infractions.

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Saturday October 29, 2011 · 6:01 PM PDT

2011/10/29 · 18:01

A loony libertarian friend of mine sent me this email a couple hours ago. I saw mention of it here on Dkos earlier today or late yesterday I think, but didn't have the time to give it a closer look then. I just think this is an important thing for us to think about. I am just copying and pasting the email here and embedding the video from U2b [Thank You Google]:

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Wednesday August 31, 2011 · 5:00 AM PDT

2011/08/31 · 05:00

I wasn't paying enough attention, I just decided it was time to help out with a "Post" here at GUS. Couldn't really think of a topic or a theme, but then I remembered!

Happy Birthday to Me! I have always bought some little gift to myself on my birthday. I just can't imagine a better thing than the 80 tobacco free days I have just given myself. I am glad I took the plunge nearly 3 months ago rather than try to do it on my birthday, that hasn't worked out to well for me in the past anyway.

How much is it worth to me? More than the $300-500 dollars I haven't spent on tobacco in that time, but that sure is appreciated. More than increased stamina and lung capacity, though that is definitely worth more than the money. It only took a little while, but I can now do the loop walk down the hill, along the State Park Road, up the UVX road and back home, about 2 miles, in less than 40 minutes. And I want to, that is the best part.

It does have a lot more to do with Vacationland's comment Monday, "...which is basically one big exercise in re-writing your own personal narrative, and reclaiming your own storyline." It has taken a little while, but this story is starting to feel really good again.

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Friday August 26, 2011 · 5:00 PM PDT

2011/08/26 · 17:00

It IS Friday. Let's have just a little bit of fun.

I really dislike cigarettes. I am not sure if it is nicotine in general, or just cigarettes as a nicotine delivery system. Probably the latter so let's start there.

Cigarettes just make it a little too easy to administer a small dose. Just enough to help me remember to have a little more. And HOW to have a little more. Before I noticed it happen, I became a good little damned robot.

nevertheless.....

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Wednesday August 10, 2011 · 3:36 PM PDT

2011/08/10 · 15:36

This is not my favorite version of this song, just the best I can find online at the moment.

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Sunday July 24, 2011 · 4:13 PM PDT

2011/07/24 · 16:13

OK, here we go. WE have constructed a rather amazing machine, in spite of ourselves and each other. This machine is the internet. I started trying to figure out computers and this internet thingy about, oh, 15 years ago. I still consider myself pretty much someone who should probably not mess around there too much. Boogey people and monsters under the bed reside there on that internet thingy.

At one point or others in life, we take all caution and throw it into the winds of change; DAMN the Torpedoes, full speed ahead.
This is the story of just one small self-deprecating individual's journey.

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