Smoking Update: I’m one calendar month in with no cigarettes. Still going strong. And my wife would like me to mention that she is at one calendar month + one week (as in, she’s winning)…

I’m not terribly active, but one of our dogs likes to run as fast as she can on her last walk of the evening, and I’m the one being dragged at the other end of the leash at least a couple of nights each week. To be clear, I’m talking down the street and back – less than a hundred yards total – and I would always be completely out of breath for 5-10 minutes after…

So I’m on day #9 of quitting and I haven’t had a cigarette since around 10 AM yesterday, the 29th. In general, I’m fine. Certainly no nicotine cravings to speak of, so Chantix is doing its job. My mood is…well…a bit altered. I’m definitely much quicker to snap when annoyed, and in this regard I wasn’t terribly slow to begin with, so..…

I had a small health issue about a week ago which led to a visit to my doctor, which led to a CAT scan and ultrasound, which was followed up by hearing the standard and expected “smoking is bad for you”. This time, however, the suggestion came with a new twist: the effects of smoking are no longer a “some day” concern; the damage is already apparent and will, of course, only get worse…

We received a DVD of photos from our wedding photographer a couple of months ago.

My wife has asked several times that I create a few copies.

At this point, I am the proud owner of not one, not two, not three, not four… [let’s jump ahead a bit…]

Inspired by Jeffrey Palermo’s recent post, I figured it was time to finish my post on our “information radiator” setup which has been in my drafts folder for about 6 months…