h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

for good behaviour! Keep it up!

Another day without smoking down.

I suppose offering you is like saying, "congrats on kicking the smoking habit - take up booze instead!"

I know!



It's a breath of fresh air- enjoy it with your new, healing lungs!

Thanks for the support of what has been 'acheived' so far, I think it's abit premature to celebrate, yet. I've quite gone off makes me feel sick when I have it now, even small amounts. I buy 3 or 4 bottles of bottle conditioned ale and usually takes a couple of months for me get through them. I really don't drink much at home. I might pop into a pub once or twice a week for a pint but that somehow is a very different drinking experience from that sitting at home and again social drinking is different. Alcohol has never been a crutch and I'd have to feel a alot more tragic for it to become one.

So little alcohol! Very good! And off the cigs for one more day
(that can't be abused, can it?)

Meh, if it wasn't difficult to quit, you'd have done it a long time ago. You deserve praise for every day you don't smoke.

Each day you've quit is a step in the right direction- a baby step, but you'll get there nonetheless.

Keep walkin'.

One Week.

That's a whole seven days, 168 hours, etc...
Well done.

Will see how I get on tomorrow. I know I'll get tense traveling into London Bridge to see Jon Ronson at the Skeptics in the Pub thing and being around people vastly more intelligent than myself and drinking is still something that in my mind should be accompanied with a fag...

with it.

What's this Jon Ronson thing? Will you get to talk to him?

http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/

Yes, in theory I could talk to him. But, I probably won't.

Perhaps that's just as well. He might write about you in his column!

"Denizens of London's underbelly lurked in the corners, or swayed between bar and table wrapped in swathes of purple and gemstones. Between them, the non-skeptics perched awkwardly in shirt-collars, preparing to shout me down. My talk went well, all considered: it was only afterwards that I began to fear for my life. A large black-clad apparition bore down on me and confided in tones of doom that his alter ego was a Lovecraftian uber-demon known as Azathoth. I backed against the bar, smiling sociably and wondering if I could conceivably use my agent as a human shield when the slaughter began; but the apparition assured me that I didn't have to worry, because he had recently given up smoking. He bought me a real ale, and by the time I reached the bottom of the glass, the uber-demon seemed a great deal more approachable. I asked him to buy me another. He did."



I like Jon Ronson.

I was sure I had mentioned the skeptics in the pub and them having Dr Richard Wiseman as a guest in October and Jon Ronson this month before and no-one being terribly interested. I mentioned to a guy elsewhere on the site called 'Goat Starer', don't know if came down to London for it. Do you have all of his books Snailrind? I'm hoping you do 'cause I'm gonna feel like a git for not getting at the very least a signed copy of Out Of The Ordinary to keep you company through the winter soltice.
I now have his 3 books, they are signed and should keep me chuckling through the cold seasons.

He asked me if I came the skeptics thing regularly and I told the first time I had been was last week [I meant month] and telling him about a memorable thing from last month's talk because asked what Dr Richard Wiseman had done in his talk and was hoping to go on to redirect the conversation to my ends, like making mention of how his two channel four documentries are possibly the most memorbale, funniest and disturbing documentries I've seen and I wanted to see what he had to say about the aura of neurotic geeky innocence he projects. But the agressive guy behind me in the Q [he'd been b!tching in my direction about how long people ahead were spending talking Jon Ronson] started interjecting into the conversation talking about I don't know what and it seemed that Ronson ended up thinking what I had been saying was that Dr Richard Wiseman had walked a 60ft firewalk on burning coals, when what I had been trying to tell about was these five people who on live TV said they would set a world record walking 60 foot along burning coals because they had meditated and had field of energy around that would protect them and how one of the backed out doing the walk because her guardian angel disappeared just before she was due to step on the coals. Anyway when the gguy behind me shut up after answering Ronson with 'I don't know I was there' meaning the previous event I'd been telling Ronson of, I got to shake Ronson's hand and walk away. I'd thought in the line it might be best if I let the guy go in front of me...

Yes, I vaguely remember you mentioning it before, but I think I was having an off-day or a busy time or something.

I don't have any of his books, because I have a habit of giving them away. But there's absolutely no reason for you to feel like you ought to have bought any for me! I would never expect or want such a thing. Besides, my books-to-read pile is looking alarmingly huge at the moment.

Glad you got to speak to him, but how bleedin' annoying to have been interrupted by that git in the queue! You tell me where he lives: I'll go smack him for you.

Well my having been to the Skeptics in the Pub see the talk by Dr Richard Wiseman and really enjoying it, looking forward to seeing Jon Ronson etc possibly didn't get much of a mention as it was old news by the time I finally got back online.

I would have liked to have gotten a gift for you.