I found out late last week that I’d been asked in for an on-site interview with a company that I’d be very excited to work for. SCORE! The interview / role is in a location about 4 hour from home so you know what that mean… ROAD TRIP! After I came down from my initial [...]
Found this in my local paper the other day and thought I’d pass it along. Some interesting stuff in here about why dip is so bad for you.
Your Dental Health
by S. Bradley Gair, D.D.S.
Family Dentistry
New research shows that chewing tobacco users are more likely to develop tooth decay (particularly [...]
I’ve been a Sports Illustrated subscriber for years now. One of my favorite segments every week is the “They Said It” piece. If you’re not familiar with it, they pull a quote from an athlete and then provide the context around the quote.
I was flipping through a back issue the other day and [...]
I’ve often said that I’m no more than $5 and a gas station away from my habit. It makes me feel weak sometimes but that’s the absolute truth. Even after 1,300 + days quit my resolve is tested which is why I make sure that my “crave arsenal” is fully stocked.
A couple of [...]
In my profile on the the Names and Faces page of killthecan.org I listed my reason for quitting as “Too many people very close to me have had (winning) battles with cancer.” I have heard “the news” several times that folks very close to me have been diagnosed with some form of cancer or could [...]
Early in my quit triggers came out of nowhere to bring me to my knees. With the help of the brotherhood on this site and on the forums I was able to power through and put together a good solid quit. At this stage of my quit (1,061 days today) the concept of [...]
My previous post was called My Plan For Tonight. Thanks to my Cavaliers my plan didn’t work out so well that night. Oh well, at least I had another dip free day.
I’ve spoken often on the forums about my cave prevention plan. I think it’s a crucial tool in a [...]
I recently finished reading The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch – I won’t go into it here but if you haven’t read I’d urge you to do so. For those of you that don’t know Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Melon who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and ended up giving [...]
Like many people I park in a multi-level parking garage and then walk a couple of blocks to work. Seeing as I’m a tad bit OCD I tend to park in the exact same spot on the exact same level every day. For me, that’s the first spot on the 6th level. I then take [...]
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