THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER - Two Different Versions! ........

OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself

NEW VERS
MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant 's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize0Athe once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

5th Day still no smoking for me

End of fifth day without smoking. I'm starting to feel a little better. Brain starting to come out of clouds. Body not feeling so sick. Upset stomach subsiding. Very , Very Tired. Finally got about 4 hours sleep last night. Hopefully I will do better tonight. Going in to office tommorow. Hoping brain cloud is mostly gone by then. Started eatting again last night. Had some chinese today. Takes 3 weeks to get rid of all nicotine but hardest part is supposed to be behind by tommorow. Did some push ups and some pull ups today. Going to do more tommorow. Will get up early and jump rope in yard before morning shower tommorow.

What are withdrawls like from Nicotine?

Do you ever have days were no matter how hard you try. You just can't smile? Now this may not be big deal to many people but when I an in a good place in my life. I smile all day long. I like it.....

Its not a pain per say. Its your brain yearning. It just really wants that poison. The longer it is gone the more precious it becomes. I have always found the last day ofthe first week to be the day of reckoning. This is were I seemed to get most tempted and mentally exhausted to go ahead and just give it what it wants. You fight in your head. If only I can have one drag... I will be all better. We can go do other stuff. Lets go to the movies now. But in about an hour after you put it out. It want another dose of poison. I'm 45... How many more does can my body take before I get sick? If I quit now will I recover some of my recently lost physical attributes? Maybe? But I certainly won't lose anymore. Smoking gives me nothing. I only get something by losing the poison. Just one and the desire returns. The cycle starts all over.

I'm going to go take a shower...................................................................

"Another day without a smoke. Whats it like: Don't know what I really want. I am Used to it being a cigarette. Brain is still in a cloud and got a really crappy nights sleep. That poison really brain washes you. Reading is near impossible unable to focus due to cloud. I have been thinking about ravaging the wife since last night. So that seems to work pretty good still. But I feel kinda fat and lethargic. So not feeling good about the Adonis figure I would want to present. So maybe I should force some physicall behavior today. No more trying to sleep and veging out. Had a bad case of indigestion for last 3 days. My brain is messing with me. I have to be smarter then my brain. How exactly do I defeat this evil genius?"

Hmm whats the point.

Well I woke up this morning after a long battling night to get some sleep to finally awaken with nicotine withdrawls.

Had a cup of cofffe and am really bored with what I am typing. What is the point? Don't really talk like this. Nothing really interesting about all this goody, goody crap we type just to fill a meaningless blog.

Better to go annonymous I think... No one can be offended. I can actually say what I am really thinking. The offensive remarks will then become interesting rather rude obnoxious behavior. Getting the truth rather then saccharine niceties that the world likes to pretend that it is.

Quitting smoking seems to give me a mental case of tourettes. I don't actually say every nasty thing I am thinking, But I am in deep thought about it. And the right trigger could make me say some unforgivable things that I would never forgive myself for saying, and neither would the victim of my verbal assault.

So need to keep my mind busy churning out jibberish until I don't feel so aggressive.

Quitting Smoking.

Yep I'm quitting Smoking. I haven't had one in over 24 hours. Cold Turkey. That really is the only way to quit. Anything else is fooling yourself, and of course just torchering yourself. No substitutes allowed. Have to just stop. No more poison in my body. I'm really not giving anything up I suppose. I am of course gaining. Control of my health and my mind. Being able to sit through a whole movie would be nice. Tired of hanging out side the backdoor just to have a smoke. Wife has to be sick of it. I'm sick of me sometimes. Just keep putting that poison in my body. Every single day. Chest been feeling a little tight lately. Probably just anxiety. But do i really want to risk it? THat last cigarette could be the one that gives me cancer. Maybe the next on I didn't have? Cool, I just saved my own ass.... I'm usually saving other peoples asses. I agree it is about time that I do something to save my own for a change. Looks like I can do this all I want so I am feeling tired. Going to go try sleeping again. If sleep doesn't catch on. I'LL BE BACK!

Do a blog test of course.