Ten days now without a cigarette and going strong. Cravings have tapered off in frequency, though on occasion a powerful urge to smoke will unexpectedly arise, toss me about for a while with the shoals of temptation perilously close by, then finally subside. The randomness of these urges is what makes them particularly dangerous to the non-smoking endeavour. No predictable triggers involved for which you can brace yourself; one minute you're contentedly involved in this or that and the next you're fighting the urge to rush down to the coffee shop patio to paw through the ashtrays for any useable remnants and ready to break anyone who happens to get in the way. Thankfully, these periods are infrequent.
It's a rainy Thursday evening and Tropical Storm Ernesto (perhaps it's a hurricane by now; I haven't checked in a couple hours) is somewhere south of here, off of the Carolinas where it will make landfall tonight. We're supposed to receive mainly rain here and lots of it, with precipitation amounts of five to ten inches possible. Rain began around noon and has been steady since. Winds are beginning to increase as well, though that is not predicted to be much of a problem. Either way, the next twenty-four hours are going to be messy.
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