April the 6-eth-rd.

Today is the 6th of August, I'm watching Arrested Development and sitting on my couch... enjoying the evening with my son and my wonderful wife. Did you know that Carl Weathers is in desperate need of funds? It's pretty damn funny... it makes me sad every time I get into this show and realize that because of people like me who didn't give it a chance, it didn't last.


You might have noticed that i revamped my blog. As much as I want to continue my writing on quitting - I think part of the reason that I'm not posting as often as I was before is that I simply don't have as much to say about quitting as I did.


While I recognize that in my life, this is a good thing, it was a sad realization in that my blog didn't become exactly what I wanted.


So - here's to new beginnings. I'll still give updates each week on how things are going, and I plan to re-run some of my older material that either 1) was never posted because of the jerking around I received at the hands of a local magazine or 2) was posted and then almost immediately pulled when my website was taken down.


The new title is "Smoke-free 30's". This is where I'll be talking about being a Daddy, being a husband, trying to find my place in the working world... in short, what happens when we turn 30 and realize that we're not "in our twenties" anymore? What happens when we realize that we didn't ever really settle down into a career? 


These are the kinds of things that I've been thinking about for a few weeks, or maybe a couple of years. 


I can't wait to start discussing things with you. Tonight I'm working on another writing project... something that I'm very excited about and CAN'T WAIT to show you! Soon, my monkeys... soon.


Talk to you later.

Is it April already?

Opening salutation. This is the blog of Aaron Walker, me, and I'm finally posting again. After a little bit of time away, I'm happy to report that things are going well, generally. It's Monday afternoon, and I'm home from work and happy to report that I'm continuing to live my life smokefree.

Something that I hadn't discussed yet, at least not in any detail, is that the state of Kansas has just passed (a couple of weeks ago) a smoking ban. While it's not in effect yet, the law has been passed which means that soon Wichita, in addition to the entire state of Kansas, will be smokefree in all public places.

While the new 'non-smoker' or 'recovering smoker' version of me is happy that I'll be able to visit a bar, a restaurant, or another public place without having to smell cigarette smoke, I've got some issues with legislation around something like smoking. 

It would actually be more accurate for me to say that I have a problem, in general, with government groups passing laws mandating something that I personally feel should be left up to business owners. I'm sure this is entirely because I WAS a smoker who faced the beginnings of a smoking ban when Wichita passed municipal legislation stating that smoking would only be allowed in businesses which strictly catered to people over 18 years of age. 
What I don't understand, however, is how THAT law is any less effective than the one that was just passed.

I agree, I don't like coming home stinking after a night out. But the truth is, if I'm out drinking I'll probably stink by the time I get home anyway, cigarettes or no.