Drunk-posting. I love you all. Thank you for keeping me sane.

[Aristus]

All in all, a good week in clinic. A bad week for the country.

Trying to maintain...

[elleng]

1. and we love YOU!

(and need you!!!)

[Aristus]

2. Thank you...

[MontanaMama]

3. Thank you Aristus.

Let’s just keep on keepin’ on....together. It’s all we can do.

[whathehell]

4. Love you, Aristus

Hang in there.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

5. Paz..

[2naSalit]

6. I'm with you there.

I heard about something horrible that happened in a town I moved from recently and it not only bothers me because it's my neighbors but because the details are a major trigger for me and my therapist is out of town for two weeks.

And then there's all this political rubbish... *sigh*

[Aristus]

9. You're among friends. I hope it's enough until you can see your therapist.

[2naSalit]

34. I think it will be...

but it isn't easy because it has sort of disrupted mt already unusual sleep patterns which makes everything challenging. I spend a lot of time here because I feel like I'm ampng friends... for the most part, not counting the troll factor of course.

[yonder]

7. Save room for a toast to that correct Hepatitis A diagnosis

Well done!

[Aristus]

10. Thank you.

I owe my teachers and my brilliant mentor for that...

[Harker]

8. Maintainance has value at times...

as does letting loose or casting away.

Thank you.

[Aristus]

11. And thank you.

Friends in times of trouble are of incalculable value...

[Harker]

12. I'd be honored to be accepted as such.

Acceptance is vastly more valuable than tolerance.

There's an eastern screech owl trilling like a swamp frog near me... another friend I've never seen.

[sheshe2]

18. ...

[Aristus]

19. One of my all-time favorite songs...

[sheshe2]

20. mine to.

nite

[Aristus]

22. Good night.

[Warpy]

13. I wish I could drink

This timeline sucks cold sober. I want off.

[Aristus]

14. I try not to encourage anyone to check out with something mind-altering.

Some people are battling it with all their might, and I respect that.

But I hope for you some comforting balm in Gilead...

[mr_lebowski]

17. I was pretty much drunk for the first 3 years ... coming up on 90 days here sober ...

Talking like ... I could make it about 1 hour after rising before I was at the liquor store ... if I woke up with nothing. And I would make a drink pretty much first thing in the AM if I had some.

I didn't HAVE to quit for any particular reason other than feeling like I was probably killing myself with the booze and ... figured that was a bad idea.

I'm here to tell ya ... it's really not any worse now than it was when I was handling it w/booze. In fact I was probably more pissed off when I was drinking than I am now.

Do I miss it? Of course. But I know it wouldn't make anything better for me, and it'd likely make a bunch of shit worse.

Pretty nice saving all that money I was spending, too

[Aristus]

21. I confine it to weekends now.

And I've cut way back even then. Good thing, too. My clothes fit better than they have in a while...

[mr_lebowski]

23. If I could do that? That's what I'd do too ...

I think that 3.5 year long 48-64 percs worth of oxy bender I went on in the early 2000's might've had a permanent effect on my ability to moderate alcohol consumption ...

What's scary is I had so much tolerance by the end that I could easily put away a 750ml bottle a day (every day) and nobody around me would even know it, other than maybe if they smelled it.

Probably helps that my general demeanor is smiling, friendly, laughing and generally comporting myself like an overgrown kid ... with or without booze.

[Warpy]

35. Understood.

When it became clear that alcohol was triggering migraines and I had to say goodbye, I didn't miss the buzz, I missed beer. I grew up on beer and really, really miss it, especially on a hot desert day.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Love you too brotha ... you're a good egg Aristus :) nt

[Aristus]

16. Thank you...

[Captain Zero]

25. Aristus, you are a Major Dude

Sober or drunk. Or in between.

[emmaverybo]

24. Goodnight. ❤️

[cilla4progress]

26. Same here Aristus!

N. Raleigh Liberal had a great post here over the weekend and it's been keeping me going.

Can't seem to re-post!

[sprinkleeninow]

27. I get more love on here 💞 than I been gettin' from some in my circle ya'd expect it from.

This strange scene don't compute. 🤔

💙 to you Ari, and to all on DU tonite.

[yaesu]

28. I never drunk post

I get into enough trouble when I'm sober

[customerserviceguy]

29. Thanks for posting this

Sometimes I feel that I'm the only one sitting down to the keyboard with a good beer or two, or ten. Drinking WA beer right now, we fly back to the Carolinas again tomorrow.

[3catwoman3]

30. Cheers to having had a good week at work!

I had someone really unhappy with me at the beginning of the week, and then today I got a card from a different mom, thanking me for staying late recently so one of her kids could be brought in by grandma at the end of office hours while mom was at work. The kind note had a Starbucks gift card in it. I’m note a coffee drinker, but the card itself had the same effect as a jolt of caffeine - perked me right up at a moment when I really needed it.

[Denis Enko]

31. Poshting Jrunk? Same on Yoo!

Whenever Ipost anywerr, I allwash make curtain Im competelee shoburr!

[In_The_Wind]

32. Enjoy taking a break next week.

We'll miss you!

[LiberalLoner]

33. ❤️🌹😍👍

[CTyankee]

36. Oh, Aristus, you are surely with friends here...we need all the friends we can get right now!

I rarely think of drinking again and I just realized I am at 6 months totally without any alcohol at all, altho I only drank wine.

However, good news! My first book is going to press and I have had a great breakthrough with my thinking about my second book! And I now have a collaborator who is a good friend and very talented!

My major issue since I stopped drinking is weight gain, not loss. It seems that sugar has taken over my diet so there will have to be cutbacks there.

All else is good!

[Aristus]

37. Congratulations on getting your book published!

That's quite an achievement.

Are you going to favor us all with the title so we can buy a copy?

[CTyankee]

38. Well, it's not for sale (privately published) but I can send you a copy. I think you will like it.

It's a collection of the art essays I published here on DU several years ago (you might not have been around at that time). PM me with your name/address and I will send you one when it is ready (issues with the dpi level on the art work, now being resolved by my book's designer who is my talented daughter).

I was advised that there was a glut on the market of this type of book so given my advanced age anyway why not privately publish and my daughter took it on as a project. I consider it my legacy to my grandchildren (to whom it is dedicated).

I think you will like it. It's a collection of 45 essays I published here ranging over 6 centuries of western European art. I had traveled for over 10 years to Europe, hunting down the art work I wanted to see before I died and I saw a lot.

Edited to add: The title is "Immutable Truth: Essays on Art 2014 - 2017".

[3catwoman3]

39. Might I also PM you for a copy?

Yours sounds like an interesting journey.

[CTyankee]

41. Sure. I just dunno when my daughter will get finished making the alterations on the dpi.

I'm sorry. I promised to send it to others here and I still have their names and addresses...but all eventually will go out.

Yes, that was an interesting journey. I am hoping to go back to Spain in October with my daughter but am hoping the coronavirus stuff will be settled by then. the travel companies must be screaming DO SOMETHING to trump...

[Wounded Bear]

40. Be safe! Dangerous times for your profession...