Having a reason to give up gave me willpower.
My wife at the time was pregnant with our first child. I decided that if the kid wanted to smoke, he could make that choice when he was old enough, but I didn’t want him to grow up seeing that smoking was normal and usual. So I quit cold turkey, Easter Sunday, 1996.
I was thinking about this the other day. Why does the beep have to be louder than the speech, why does everyone use the same sound, why is there a beep at all? It seems very intrusive and distracting, I think white noise or even just silence would be better for the purpose of censoring.
I like River Port Olde Style Lime, and sometimes Raspberry, but they’re hard to find, as most places just carry drinks from the big two brands.
Latin, or even better, Klingon
When I was working at a follow-the-Sun help desk, and had a micromanaging boss, we used this planner to book daily meetings across three different timezones.