Two days a week is the best I can manage. In fact that is my routine. A fifth on Monday, a fifth on Thursday.
Well, it’s a mistake to judge a place based on the people who live there. If you like hiking and camping you’ll enjoy any of those places. The question is can you sustain your employment there? If so I’m envious.
I drank a massive amount of whiskey on a daily basis for many years. I gave up on the 3rd of January 2016 and have been clean since. I’ve outlined my struggle with it, and how I managed to do it in this thread. Like most alcoholics, my behavior toward alcohol or any other substance isn’t governed by any law other than law of crave it-do it-regret it. If you’re interested, go read the OP in that thread.
My problem with alcohol besides health issues was that it halted my intellectual progress and reduced it to a minuscule value. I wasn’t learning, reading or writing anything new, and my entire focus was on food and sex; nothing else. Since I quit, I’ve nearly finished two books and continued to learn German online - something I’d abandoned many years ago. I am catching up wonderfully. I am not affected by either lust or appetite the same way I was while I was drinking, nor anywhere near it. Maybe it’s too early to speak, but I am simply feeling much better. No cravings, either.
Alcohol is an earthly substance that reduces your entire experience on this wonderful planet in this incredibly short allocation of time into biological activities more becoming of a predecessor to humanity rather than an active participant in it.
I wish you the best.
I have a disability check. Sometimes I work part time. If I do ever come off of disability the job skills I have now are pretty much equal in south georiga as north georgia.
Well then, if you like the mountains, get on up to where your family is. There’s not a damn thing in south GA. You already know that.
I hear that. Congrats on 3 weeks sobriety, and I envy what you’ve accomplished.
I was until 2013 when I got pneumonia, was hospitalized and found to have fatty liver. My 10-day stay in the hospital basically cured my drinking problem. You’ll be amazed at how much money you’ll save if you stop. It’s like getting a raise.
Why not drink friday so you have the weekend to recover?
Why not drink now so I can drink right now?
It’s a rhetorical question, I’m just trolling for attention.
Don’t you get headaches/hangovers? I like a drink now and then, but the negative after-effects are too unpleasant and consistent (usually even if I only have one beer) for me to have ever become a big drinker.
Freddie Mercury was a goddamn badass motherfucker.
Yes, fuck a goddamn christ, I get hangovers. Not so much headaches. But I’m spinning when I have to walk the kids to the bus stop at 6:4 AM. I am not judging, but if hangovers are what prevent you from drinking, then I might suggest you are a giant goddamn pussy. Again, not judging, I’m just observing.
why don’t you quit for 30 days
tell yourself you will drink on day 31
then, on day 28, try and talk yourself into another 30 days
the point being, quit for now, and leave the future to the future
Do you have trouble telling others how you feel? 
I am not judging anyone here, but if you cannot watch David Bowie and Freddie Mercury doing ‘Under Pressure’ without achieving an erection, then there is something fundamentally wrong with you as a person.
No. Ask me anything. I am here for you in every time zone.
Are you married?
Heh, it’s more like a cost/benefit analysis where the positive effects just don’t outweigh the negative effects most of the time. Every once in a (very) blue moon I’ll get downright hammered, but usually that’s only if I’m in a social situation where I’m really enjoying it. If I go on a date, a drink or two definitely makes the process easier and more enoyable. But most of the time, if I’m just hanging out by myself, I don’t get much value out of it.
This is a brilliant idea and I shall give it due consideration. I will try to stop drinking for 23 hours, and if this works, then I shall endeavor for 30 days. Lets stay in touch.