Comments on: On a Personal Note

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:43:27 +0000

Currently: 37 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes and 23 seconds without a cigarette.

That’s about 850 cigs I haven’t smoked, and 6 days, 7 hours added back on my lifeline. Hey… almost a week!

And about $250 that I haven’t spent on smokes. I’m saving for a Wii. ;)

By: Jason Haeger

Jason Haeger — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:48:34 +0000

Huge congrats, Doug.

I can taste the difference in a roast between roasters who are smokers vs. non-smokers and what they “value” in the cup.

I notice more roast flavors in the cups of roasters who are also smokers. (on average, naturally, just like with anything else in life, there are exceptions).

Big ups on +4 days. (hopefully twice that by now)

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:31:50 +0000

I think it was compression. Some services appeared to have fits reading the GZIP compressed feed. I’m removed compression and the subscribe rate has climbed substantially in the last hour or two.

Thanks, evening, for the tip that something was weird with your feed!

By: evening

evening — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:08:13 +0000

You know what? Could be bloglines. They just posted a thing saying the crawler should be fixed. My Metafilter RSS wasn’t updating either, but now it is, now that I think about it.

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:01:35 +0000

Thanks, one and all.

…and evening, I can’t figure out what the RSS problem might be — my number of subscribers says its fallen by two thirds — but the number of folks actually visiting is way, way up. Glad your feed is working, though.

By: evening

evening — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:39:43 +0000

Congrats! And I’m glad your RSS is working again…had no idea you were back (and now time to catch up!)

By: m'lissa

m'lissa — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:33:31 +0000

YAY!! Keep up the good work!!

I quit smoking almost 3 years ago and, while tough, was the best thing I’ve done for my health and my career..

You can do it!

By: Sonja

Sonja — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:45:27 +0000

Good for you!

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:28:06 +0000

Thanks, guys. A lot.

Tonx — I’ve been really surprised, too, how many cuppers are smokers. It’s been a personal goal since I started digging deep into coffee to leave the evil leaf behind… finally I’m on the path. ;)

Pete — congrats yourself!

By: peteathome

peteathome — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:57:23 +0000

Congrats on your first 3 weeks. Here’s to the next 3.

(Me – smoke free since 1991)