Post 2297
- 8 years and 190 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
Part of my teenage-through-early-twenties life was drinking. I drank until I was drunk a lot. I know now this wasn't a good idea, but then, it seemed like just a part of the whole that was living. I didn't really do it that often.
I didn't like bars much. For one thing, I wasn't much of a beer or whiskey guy, and everything else was expensive at bars. For another, my 'crowd' didn't hang at bars, because you couldn't smoke pot in bars.
Bars also were weird because I was mostly hanging out with people older than me, and they could go places and do things I couldn't legally.
There was also the sex thing. Drinking and bars made it easier to meet women, but I didn't really like sex when I was drunk. And a lot of the women I met back then didn't like booze, or liked it too much.
My first girlfriend after I moved out of my parents house hated booze, all booze. She told me she would never want to be with me when I was drinking, and that was enough to stop me. I didn't really like alcohol as much as I loved her.
In my late twenties, when I started working in the corporate world, I would join my new 'friends' - fellow employees I felt no common ground with outside of a common boss - at bars and I would drink like they did. I drank boilermakers.
Then I discovered the world of good wine.
And that was all I drank until, when I met Nell, in my mid-thirties. I back-slid a bit, until she was pregnant with Alex, then joined her in not drinking. Shortly after Alex was born, when we moved to North Carolina, we started drinking again, but about five years later, at age 42, I was diagnosed with hepatitis C.
I was, for all intents and purposes, a teetotaler for the next decade or so.
When I emerged from that, it was an occasional wine with dinner.
After my hepatitis C was cured, in 2005, I asked my doctor if I could drink. He replied it would be wise to wait a bit, but, while it would probably be better to not drink, he was not going to prohibit drinking in moderation.
I went back to an occasional drink. Then, at a gig one night, a friend introduced me to Irish whiskey. I liked it. I liked the taste, the warmth, the drinking of it, the slight high that a shot induced.
That became my drink. Occasional wine with dinner, but at bars, it was Irish, neat.
When I moved to Syracuse, NY, I was too broke to drink, and, except for 'unavoidable' social drinking, didn't really drink for my first couple of years.
After I recovered financially, and got my head together, I was diagnosed with Diabetes II - no drinking while I was on a weight-loss program.
But when that was successful, and I was on maintenance, and feeling good, I started drinking one Jameson's, neat, per night out.
That was eight years ago, and I've pretty much maintained that. I'm now a confirmed whiskey drinker, with a favorite drink.
In Thailand, three years ago, I 'discovered' beer. I liked Thai and Chinese beer, it's crisp with no after-taste, and the first three weeks in Chiang Mai, I drank more beer than in my entire lifetime up to that point.
Now I will have an occasional beer, if I'm hitting more than one bar in a night.
And I spend most nights in bars these days. I do more playing, talking, and pot-smoking in bars than drinking, but to maintain my good relationship in bars, I always have a drink.
I'm very grateful that I can do this at this point in my life.
Food and Diet
I didn't like bars much. For one thing, I wasn't much of a beer or whiskey guy, and everything else was expensive at bars. For another, my 'crowd' didn't hang at bars, because you couldn't smoke pot in bars.
Bars also were weird because I was mostly hanging out with people older than me, and they could go places and do things I couldn't legally.
There was also the sex thing. Drinking and bars made it easier to meet women, but I didn't really like sex when I was drunk. And a lot of the women I met back then didn't like booze, or liked it too much.
My first girlfriend after I moved out of my parents house hated booze, all booze. She told me she would never want to be with me when I was drinking, and that was enough to stop me. I didn't really like alcohol as much as I loved her.
In my late twenties, when I started working in the corporate world, I would join my new 'friends' - fellow employees I felt no common ground with outside of a common boss - at bars and I would drink like they did. I drank boilermakers.
Then I discovered the world of good wine.
And that was all I drank until, when I met Nell, in my mid-thirties. I back-slid a bit, until she was pregnant with Alex, then joined her in not drinking. Shortly after Alex was born, when we moved to North Carolina, we started drinking again, but about five years later, at age 42, I was diagnosed with hepatitis C.
I was, for all intents and purposes, a teetotaler for the next decade or so.
When I emerged from that, it was an occasional wine with dinner.
After my hepatitis C was cured, in 2005, I asked my doctor if I could drink. He replied it would be wise to wait a bit, but, while it would probably be better to not drink, he was not going to prohibit drinking in moderation.
I went back to an occasional drink. Then, at a gig one night, a friend introduced me to Irish whiskey. I liked it. I liked the taste, the warmth, the drinking of it, the slight high that a shot induced.
That became my drink. Occasional wine with dinner, but at bars, it was Irish, neat.
When I moved to Syracuse, NY, I was too broke to drink, and, except for 'unavoidable' social drinking, didn't really drink for my first couple of years.
After I recovered financially, and got my head together, I was diagnosed with Diabetes II - no drinking while I was on a weight-loss program.
But when that was successful, and I was on maintenance, and feeling good, I started drinking one Jameson's, neat, per night out.
That was eight years ago, and I've pretty much maintained that. I'm now a confirmed whiskey drinker, with a favorite drink.
In Thailand, three years ago, I 'discovered' beer. I liked Thai and Chinese beer, it's crisp with no after-taste, and the first three weeks in Chiang Mai, I drank more beer than in my entire lifetime up to that point.
Now I will have an occasional beer, if I'm hitting more than one bar in a night.
And I spend most nights in bars these days. I do more playing, talking, and pot-smoking in bars than drinking, but to maintain my good relationship in bars, I always have a drink.
I'm very grateful that I can do this at this point in my life.
Today's Weight: 201.0 lbs.
Previous Weight (7/8/19): 201.0 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.0 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
6:10pm, at the Listening Room at 443:
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
1:15am: Dubliner cheese, vegetable curry (kale, spinach, lentils) on riced cauliflower, and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
6:10pm, at the Listening Room at 443:
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| Southwest Panini (Smoked turkey, chipotle mayo, bacon and jalapeno cayenne cheddar on Pasta's stretch bread). |
Skipped.
Dinner
1:15am: Dubliner cheese, vegetable curry (kale, spinach, lentils) on riced cauliflower, and a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 0; Coffee: 22 oz.; Water: 72+ oz.; and a shot of Jameson Irish whiskey
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