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I am beyond furious and my sponsor is out of town. It happened again. I finally got last week’s paycheck cashed on Wednesday and today this week’s check bounced. Obviously, in spite of what my employer says, I need to find a new job. Read the rest of this entry »
I can’t believe it. Day 1000 passed without my noticing it. I was in Las Vegas at the time visiting my mom and dad. I spent the day hanging out with them, my great-uncle and his new wife and daughter, my aunt and two of my cousins. Watched some football. [...]
I’ve been having this internal argument about smoking cessation with nicotine replacement therapy. Namely, in quitting smoking I’m really quitting 2 different addictions; smoking addiction and nicotine addiction. I have picked up a cigarette only twice in the last 16 days, and that has been made rather easy by the fact that my nicotine addiction [...]
So why shouldn’t I juggle too? I’ve been juggling already. Figuring out how to live sober has been really, really tricky. I don’t even think that, on balance, I’m very good at it. I’ve complained about the big chunks of my life that really aren’t working, that I struggle with, that I’m apparently unwilling to [...]
I seem to have to try things over and over before I actually incorporate the experience into knowledge. One of the things I learned in treatment was that trying new things increases my optimism.
I put new brake pads on my scooter yesterday. I’ve never seen a brake pad in my life. After that I did [...]
This post was originally published Feb. 10, 2008 and was taken down pending adjudication of another case. Now that has been done and I am restoring the post.
To choose what is difficult all one’s days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden
They tell me I seemed relaxed; that I did not seem [...]
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