[Ipg-smz] Looking for opinions/experience

[Tom Henderson]

Nicotine is a wonderful drug. I quit smoking anyway about five years 
ago. I also dropped 80lbs. My late father did this, quit/lose weight. He 
passed of an inherited clotting disorder, Factor V Leiden, which I have, 
but not the double dose he did. I swim, lift weights, and can drop and 
give you 20+ on a good day. But no, no smoking, delicious as nicotine 
can be. My mother smoked until 75; her mother until 84. And up the other 
line, they drank like fish-- as were the times.

The damn thing is that my son smokes. Not like I did, but enough that he 
ought to quit. Like me, he's an addict. Kicking will be tough.

And tomorrow you can see my Windows 2019 Server review at IDG Insider 
Pro, a review after a two-year hiatus from IDG. It was heavily and 
surgically edited, but remains OK. I privately wonder WHY they made it a 
release, other than contractual revenues. The good thing: inherently 
more secure. The bad thing: there's really still a Berlin Wall between 
the host and Linux/anything-else for production purposes. I don't share 
SJV-N's prediction of a Windows-ish kernel any time soon. There's too 
much ego there, and Humble Pie isn't in the Microsoft diet. Links tomorrow.

I've been writing for a vendor, not journalism, rather, technical copy. 
I'm bound not to release their name. So yeah, writing..... in the ham 
shack, listening to the whirring fans, Keith Jarrett, or one of my 
brother's 50K+ vinyl albums. For the hams in the audience, some FT4, and 
JT8Call modes.

Tom


On 11/14/19 1:46 PM, Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On 11/14/19 7:16 AM, Tom Henderson via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> lacking only the ashtray full of spent Camels-- I quit.
>
> I assume you meant by this you quit smoking, not quit writing.
>
> If true, congratulations.  I know all too many people who tried and 
> failed to curb the habit.  One is even now hooked on Nicorette gum.
>
-- 
Tom Henderson
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