An old dog learning new terms, it looks major sick. (You can bounce that one off the neighbor's kids if you need translation.)

I'll ask the same question as Stephen, but with a more important measure of time. How many ciggaretts did it take? I know, it's a hell of a lot more than you wish to discuss.

A working smoker (for non-smokers: working smoker means that there isn't any such thing as a ciggarette break.)myself, it's a serious problem trying to seperate the 2 actions. Both need to be done, and it's an act of effective time managment. I'm cleaning up the undercarriage of my car. I have 2 ashtrays set up so that whichever one is closest is the target. It doesn't matter whether I'm doing anything or not: I must smoke x-amount of butts a day. In fact, I probabaly have a tendancy to smoke more when doing things than when sitting around.

The thing I find amusing about folks who don't have a clue as to the addiction--they think that they do, but they don't--are the suggestions for quitting. For instance, I attended a smoking clinic. There, one of the suggestions was to do something so that you cannot smoke, such as shovel snow. The problem is that working smokers Nice suggestion, but the problem is that I have a smoke hanging out of my mouth while shoveling snow.

James, you give me hope. You show that one can have a wife, and still have such types of indoor projects.