If you have ever smoked and quit or have tried to quit, you know it is almost impossible. Well I have found a really good substitute that doesn’t taste like shit, and doesn’t break your wallet either. Electronic cigarettes are really good. They can be taken anywhere too. You can take them into restaurants, schools, courthouse and many other places that you cannot smoke cigarettes. After a little while you don’t really crave them anymore and eventually stop. I have a lot of friends who are using them as well as myself.

Electronic cigarettes take the edge off, while being not as potent as a regular cigarette. Not to mention that you are breathing a vapor mist and not contaminating your lungs with smoke. The taste is not unpleasant, but not tasty enough to hook you on it either. It can be recharged with a USB port into a computer or a car charger. That is really convenient as I am always on my computer. Quitting smoking is not easy, but with the E-cig, it is a lot less difficult then it would be and much less expensive. So to all you quitters out there, here is the help you need.

Christmas and New Year’s messed up my schedule a lot this year. I like to get a haircut every 4 weeks. I can go 5 weeks if I have to, but after 5 weeks i start having bad hair days and get really pissy about not getting my hair cut. So, of course, Christmas fell on the scheduled week and I couldn’t go. And then the week after Christmas the woman who style my hair took off for vacation because her kids have no school that week. So now here it is going into the second week of January and I still have not got my hair cut. I’m sick of the bad hair days – I NEED a hair cut!

Last night was a helluva party downtown. There had to be over 100,000 down on the riverfront jamming to Lynyrd Skynyrd and waiting for the clock to strike midnight.

What sucked about being downtown was not being able to actually bring your own bottle of champagne with you and have a champagne toast. Unless you went into one of the really crowded bars or restaurants and drank it inside the bar, you could only cheer or kiss someone close to celebrate.

I kinda missed the champagne toast. We’ve done that every year of my life that I can remember – as far back as only 4 years old. My parents would let us stay up and have a tiny sip of champagne while we watched Dick Clark on the TV. I miss those days.

There is a favorite way to end a night on the town when you are partying out on the West Coast. In L.A. there is a famous chain of restaurants that serves up chicken and waffles. A lot of celebrities like to stop by the chicken and waffles shop in Hollywood. I think they have 5 or 6 locations now and other people are opening imitations. I hear that San Francisco has at least two chicken and waffle restaurant knock-offs.

If you want to buy music, movies, books or any electronics, you should always check out Amazon for the best prices. In a lot of cases, Amazon carries stuff that you cannot even find locally. But their clothing selections are awful and way too expensive. I would have to be desperate to buy clothing from Amazon. As long as I can still get to the malls around here, I’ll never buy clothes online.