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Termyn8or -> RE: Beer substitute ? (5/8/2010 7:07:10 PM)
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I've only read this last page of responses right now. Thanks to all with helpful ideas here.
However last night I found a quite unacceptable beer substitute. It was whiskey, scotch actually. It quite illustrated the difference between the times I want to be drunk and the times I do not. Quite vividly in fact.
It was Friday night and I was finally back to work. I couldn't think until after court. After my mind settled a bit I can work so I did. I showed up early and had a productive day, so much so that my last half hour was spent "cleaning up" my work area. If I'd have driven to work I probably would've left early because I literally did all the work. But it was time anyway.
Afterwards I come home to the usual crowd. I get the usual case of beer, then my sinister walks in with another case of beer. The Woman decides to drink :-) In the beginning my Mother and sinister didn't really like the Woman, seeing her as a freeloader and such, but they didn't realize just what she does for me. She does pretty much earn her keep. Now the Woman and my sinister are practically inseparable.
Now partially joking, if my baseline BAC is actually 0.191 I need a booster to handle these drunk broads, really. So I bust out the scotch. The Woman had a shot. I purposely lost my keys, I'll get around to finding them later. So I drank the remainder of the scotch and we had a good time, really. Her olman also celebrated, and I think he did some coke, I can tell by the tone of his voice. But with the help of my family and I, and his boss, collectively we got him out of jail and his license back. There was some reason to celebrate. He got paid, and paid some money back to our "slush fund" as per agreement.
His right to a bit of that substance he likes is equal to my right to drink that whiskey. And he drank some as well. He had lived here for about a month or so before he would touch a beer. He actually said that every time he gets drunk he has problems. But the one night a while back he went ahead. He found that part of his problem was the environment in which he drank. Though only occasionally, he is confident that he is not going to go nuts. And he didn't. We gathered everything we needed and nobody drove anywhere. Nobody even went anywhere. My car is right there and he now has a company supplied vehicle. We are in our forties and as I see it, even intoxicated we must keep some degree of common sense about us.
There was no trouble. The only thing we did that could be consideed wrong is to jam the tunes untio fout AM. Maybe longer. Yup, the amp fan was on high last night.
So the end result of this night of drunk ass hillbillies is thus : I slept half the day away, her olman is at work. Other guy is making me cigarettes with a machi9ne which are just as good as store boughtens, saving me thousands of dollars a year. All is quiet. I hd realized that my collection was missing a crucial song (Van Halen - Ain't Talkin Bout Love) and I haven't even looked, but P2P picked it up in about fifteen seconds. It is still running and I'll see later what else it caught.
All is quiet now. Nobody is in jail or anything. A couple of years ago my Mother called me on Jan 02, and asked who was in jail after the party. When I replied "Nobody" she said that we are getting old. We both cracked up, if I am getting old what is she getting ?
But the whole point is that I made a concious decision to get drunk, and the worst thing that happened is that I got on a high horse and fucked up the census guy thread. The point of this thread is still valid, I will stop for a time and see how it is. If I have indeed been walking around in a fog these last years, I want to know. If I cannot cope with life without it I want to know. If I have limitations I want to know them intimately and will admit them here, as well as everywhere. To me ignorance is a form of insanity, so that is my impetus.
That ticket last week means nothing to me except for that one number on it - .191. The census thread, I wish I could edit it and take out the extraneous bullshit, but it is of course too late. Once responded to it must stand, let that be a lesson to me.
If I am wrong I will admit it, but only after I am convinced that I was wrong. If this thread meanders into alcohol consumption and such related issues, so be it.
T
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