Lunar New Year Update

Work causes stress. Smoking may not cure stress, but at least it provides your body with sweet, sweet nicotine.

Having said that, it looks like the 24th has passed, and Randy is currently smoking.

Part-Time, Quitting on the 24th

Randy appears to have an infectious illness, so he decided to spread the love yesterday and make a presence in the office. :P

After work, we enjoyed a few beers, at which time he had two different packs of smokes in front of him. Noticing this, I asked him about his status.

Current Status: Part-time smoker, quitting for sure on the 24th.

December 2007 Update - Yup

Due to some major problems at work, Randy has been in the office this week. As such, I figured it was a great time to toss out an update.

Since fixing the problems are occupying a great deal of his time, it's hard to put a precise value on the level of his smoking. However, in my expert opinion, I can safely say he's currently a moderate- to full-on-smoker.

Next update: Some time in the next few months, either when he calls a quit phase, or when it's been a while since I've seen him.

Update (2007-12-06 9:39pm): Apparently, I'm subconsciously preparing myself to start using "2008" as the current year. I fixed the date in the Subject line.

Fall/Winter 2007 Update

Yeah, it's been a while.

Randy just sent me a pic of the finger he seriously banged up in a "taking down the air conditioner" accident, so I have a fresh-from-the-oven update.

He's down to about 1/2 pack a day, and targeting full quit by his birthday (Nov 13th).

That is all.

He's Quitting After April Fools Day (For Real?)

Okay, Randy has a new job now. Since he wont be travelling as much, I might be able to bring this blog back to a realtime status update as it was originally promised.

We had a few beers after work, and the claim was that he would be quitting effective April 2nd.

As a slightly-related aside, as I've said twice before now....I've known Randy for over a decade now. If some superpowerful space alien had come to me 10 years ago and told me that in 10 years, Randy would manage to be, on occaision, more immature that 10-year-ago-Randy was, I would never have believed it. Not because I didn't think he was capable, but rather simply because I would have thought he'd already reached some theoretical maximum limit state.

Judging by recent stories, he's managed to blow that whole theory out of the water.

So, just for recap....

Current Status: Quitting effective April 2nd.

Update for 2007

Randy has been in the office a lot lately, and the answer appears to be: "Hell yeah, like a chimney!"

Stay tuned....

Occaisionally

That's the best synopsis I can give right now.

Randy appears to be buying packs, and smoking more than just when he's in the office, or when we head out for a few drinks afterwards. Although we haven't had any actual conversations lately about whether or not he's currently self-identifying as a smoker or an ex-smoker.

Stay tuned.