Humphrey Bogart once said, “The whole world is about three drinks behind.”\u00a0 That quote had resonated with me over the years, often when I was sitting at the bar and should have gone home at least two drinks ago.<\/p>\n
I was sitting at the bar last night, nursing a second drink in no hurry to finish.\u00a0 My friends sitting next to me had been there for a while.\u00a0 They were rambling on about this and that.\u00a0 Most of what they said was unintelligible but it sure was important to them.<\/p>\n
At that moment, I found myself on the flip side of Bogart’s wisdom.\u00a0 I didn’t like it there so I polished off my drink and ordered a third.<\/p>\n
I stopped after three drinks and headed home, a little numb but not completely blotto.\u00a0 I refrained from embarrassing myself, which isn’t too surprising.\u00a0 I have no problem behaving when I’m moderately buzzed and am usually not an asshole even when I’m absolutely hammered.\u00a0 There have been exceptions of course, horrible low points I’d rather not think about.\u00a0 But for the most part, I do OK.\u00a0 And thanks to my selfish and callous nature, I hardly ever have to worry about getting sloppy either.<\/p>\n
So for the most part, I’m a regular Dean Martin.\u00a0 Excellent.\u00a0 Well, not really.\u00a0 I wish I could be happy as a work-hard-play-harder sort of guy, but I can’t.\u00a0 I don’t like my current job and never really cared much for my career.\u00a0 I need something outside work to validate my existence.\u00a0 Booze alone is not a good way to do this.<\/p>\n
Last fall, I swore off liquor completely for over two months.\u00a0 I had no set time limit for the duration of my sobriety.\u00a0 I didn’t know if it was going to last a week or forever.\u00a0 Overall, the time off did me some lasting good.\u00a0 My weekly alcohol intake is about half what it was in September.<\/p>\n
So now I’m a moderate drinker, sort of.\u00a0 Still, that isn’t good enough.<\/p>\n
(At this point, I started in on some tiresome blather that was equal parts rationalization and self pity.\u00a0 I’ll spare you.\u00a0 New story coming Monday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Humphrey Bogart once said, “The whole world is about three drinks behind.”\u00a0 That quote had resonated with me over the years, often when I was sitting at the bar and should have gone home at least two drinks ago. I was sitting at the bar last night, nursing a second drink in no hurry to … Continue reading Lush Interior<\/span>