"If a nicotine user remains 100% nicotine free for just 72 hours they'll likely begin to notice the underlying current of recovery anxieties begin easing off as their brain's neurons begin bathing in nicotine-free oxygen rich blood serum and the brain's sensitivity adjustments begin bearing fruit. Although our quickly healing body is now 100% nicotine free and most of the normal symptoms of adjustment have reached their peak, it will take 10 days to two weeks before our mind and body become fully accustomed to functioning with the absence of nicotine and many of the other 4,000+ chemicals present in each burning cigarette. "
In other words, I'm in "rote mode." Printing, packaging, and thinking about cardboard. Not taking on anything that requires concentration or that might produce aggravation. Tomorrow the new P.C. should arrive.
Other stuff: the Forum (Cafe Noir) is on its last legs. For some reason the idea of sharing interesting thoughts between photographers in the forum wasn't a big hit. I believe the reasons were: there was a feeling of a more formal threshold for posting than there is in the blog. i.e. you can put up just about anything here as a comment but in the forum it feels like you must have a more serious motivation to start a new topic... (maybe not, but I suspect there is some truth to this).
Unlike other forums, you needed to qualify to be able to "express yourself." Nobody wants to go through that to ask what they imagine will be a quick question. Of course, it's those quick questions that usually go on for years.
And last but not least, I didn't keep it "primed." Somebody, whether the entity is a blog or a forum needs to keep the energy going and I abandoned the forum after a while. Not only did I abandon it, but I stuck it under the Blog Dropdown (and expecting people to find it on a submenu is pronouncing is just about the same as pronouncing it dead.)
I could open it up so that anyone can write anything -but don't see any point to recreating the wheel.
