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Dang it's COLD

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#41

I started inhaling my own smoke at 12. I’d been inhaling may parents in the car my entire life up to then. Quit a few times with some short term success but finally quit cold turkey during a bad bout of pneumonia. That was somewhere around 1992. Once I had detoxed I tried one or two again just to be sure I had made the right decision. I had. It’s been at least 25 years since that last puff. I don’t miss it at all. It did take me 24 of those years to get motivated and loose all the weight I gained as a result of the food habit I traded for cigarettes. Even so; I still think I was healthier even at my all time high weight then I was while smoking.

BTW - Us reformed smokers are much harder on smokers then lifetime non-smokers.

Edit to bring this back to Trains: The only smoke I enjoy smelling today is the coal smoke from a locomotive (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)

#42

I’m a reformed smoker, too. I can be a real @$$ around smokers, though I’ve mellowed some over the years. I quit a month before my now 37 rear load year old son was born.

New Year’s Eve was spent outside, around a campfire, with close friends. Temp was -3°F. Comfortable in cold weather gear. One, sitting across the fire, was smoking tobacco. I experienced both revulsion and desire. Strange, after all these years, the tobacco receptors are still wanting their fix.

How the hexx does Bill Gates get “rear load,” out of “year old?”

#43

I’m an ex smoker…40 years…two packs a day (25 per pack)…quit cold turkey, after three tries over 6 years. Best thing I ever did, and realized that I smelled like shit, while smoking…Now my stomach turns when I smell cigarette smoke. I don’t know if I quit in time, but my brother died from the results of second hand smoke, at just under 60 years of life. Others claim that it’s their right to smoke…I guess it may be, but some are nice people and my friends. I feel I have the right to try to keep them alive as Friends, by suggesting that they quit…I think I do have that right…or am I just being selfish…they do have the right to die also.

Fred Mills

#44

some times the world is hard to understand.

it is quite normal to eat so much, that diabetis gets a chance to strangle us slowly.

it is normal enough to drown ones liver and loose full control over ones body by alcohol.

it is normal to jogg until the IQ gets rattled out of our brains.

it is normal to break your body by excessive sports. (a "tennis-arm is worn like a badge of honor, instead of like a “me stoopit” sign)

it even is quite normal to pop in half a dozen chemicals for “wellbeing”.

it even becomes more and more normal to smoke weed.

but smoking tobacco gets criminalized more and more.

isn’t it weird, that we may freely choose, how to shorten our lives - with anything but tobacco?

ps: and even if we evade all of the above abuses, there are still hormones and chemicals in our food and water…

pps: to my knowledge during the last 2000 years everybodies life did end with death. so, why not let people choose their own manner of suicidal behaviour?

#45

Greg Elmassian said:

So I won’t mention it was in the 80’s the last 2 days (and of course no humidity like Florida)… too warm to wear socks and shoes.

Greg

#46

Greg, Today (January 2, 2018) I waited till it warmed up to take down my Christmas decorations. Here in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, it reached a high temp of 44 with a humidity of 88%. For Wednesday public offices and schools are closed. In northeast Florida people have gone nuts. Floridians can’t handle the cold. Do tracks for garden railways freeze?

#47

Meanwhile Im enjoying all this cold weather on the ski slopes and running some trains. Best part, no bugs. Life is good.

#48

When I left the house this morning it was 1. 1 lonely degree outside. By the time I had driven halfway to my service call, a 4 hour drive, it had warmed up to -4. No, that doesn’t sound right. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-undecided.gif)Anyway, I made a wrong turn and ended up driving through the woods on a road that was posted “No Winter Maintenance”. Fortunately the little Transit did just fine. I would felt better in a 4 wheel drive. By the time I was driving home, it was trying to hang onto 23 degrees, but the gauge kept dipping back down to 22 or 21.

Even with proper cold weather gear, the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad is closed until spring. One, because I don’t do well in the cold weather anymore. And 2, because a very large something impacted my bridge, returning part of it to strip-wood. I am thinking a deer slipped and fell while drinking from my pond.

#49

It has not got below freezing point here yet - although central and northern England and of course Scotland and Wales have had snow and low temperatures. The biggest issue here of late has been very high winds and storms which has caused a considerable amount of damage and sadly fallen trees.

Anyway it can’t last forever, I hope, and a train may be seen in my back yard soon.