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Apparently, today The Sci-Fi Channel became SyFy. This was done in hopes of widening its audience. (Am I the only one who reads this as “Siffy?”) I guess they’re hoping to include more professional wrestling (and other crap) and not be tied down to sci-fi. And please note, I use the term sci-fi to mean something they created, most certainly not as a simple shorthand for “Science fiction.” Science fiction is a beautiful thing - can be challenging to the mind and entertaining. Sci-fi (further blurred now as syfy) has become third-rate programming which can deal with space or computers or wrestling or … Yeah. Good luck with that.

But who’s counting, right?

Yeah, so I am on the Stage 2 patches now and I am finding that I am mildly irritable. Oh well; I’ll get used to these I suppose. It’s a process, quitting. There are times - though not as many as I expected - and some quite surprising - when I still really want a cigarette. Some amount of that may never go away.

Now for the good news: My breathing! It is significantly better! I am finally past the inability to breathe when i wake up, which is very welcome. I think that the healing process has begun.

Funny though, I still think of myself as a smoker. I still have strong feelings about smokers’ rights and real frustrations with the suppressing of our (their) rights as smokers. I still think we should have smoking sections in restaurants and bars and I think that no matter where it is (ok maybe save a nuclear power plant) if you are outside, you ought to be able to smoke.

Maybe all that will change as I get more used to being a non-smoker. We shall see.