I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.

Zuzu knew the whole time and never dimed him out at work… Respect.

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HAHA reminds me of my mom, I swear she can burn boiling water :)

But I bet is all in the prep and the diet of the GP. Ever eaten grass fed beef from calf to slaughter vs grass “finished”. Its night and day, I can see why grass fed is so expensive.

And I love dark meat on chicken, hope to be able to try it someday!

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Fish? Thats wild, I wouldn’t have expected that!

In Peru they are a food staple… So not totally useless.

I am utterly SHOCKED!

Oh wait, its just another idle Saturday and business as usual… If this guy makes it past the primary its going to be a disaster.

It makes sense, consider how close human and canine have lived to close together for how many thousands of years.

Oh I have a story to build off that dogs LOVE stinky things.

When I was in college I worked summers on my Uncles septic truck. We used to pump out in a really rich area. So we are at this really nice house and these 2 beautiful golden retrievers come bounding out of the house to say “hi” w/ the home owner.

These dogs were pampered, they smelled amazing, perfect coats, so lovable. So we got the hose in the tank I’m horsing around w/ the pups while my uncle is talking to the home owner.

Now we had a rule on the truck. We use the same hose to go in the hole. All the others link to the truck, best practice to keep them “clean”.

I start dragging the hoses back, “clean” hoses first and the last is the poop hose. One trick to clean to tank side of the hose (a short hose) was to roll it as you drag it back to “clean” the poop end off on the grass. No one ever noticed until today.

As I dragged it back those two goldens made a bee line to the path the hose was being dragged and went right on their backs rubbing in all the nasties into their fur. Home owner was horrified, his beauties were covering themselves in the black water of their septic tank.

My uncle said it happens all the time. And needless to say that homeowner never brought his dog out in our other visits.

tl;dr Dogs will rub themselves in septic nasties when you put the hoses back after a pump out.

My buddy let his dog out one morning and he would come back inside no matter what. So he goes to investigate, finds the dog playing with what looked like a weird “ball”.

It was a human head. He lived next to a decent sized highway and a mobster was murdered and they disposed of the body parts along it. The head was the first bit that was found. Investigators doubted the other parts would have been found w/o is pupper going full on cadaver dog.

Thats wild, none of those resources were around when I was that age.

I sat in a meeting, it was late here so I hit a west coast meeting. Nice group of folks, it was helpful hearing others talk about being sober and the issues before and after. Definitely will keep exploring as I get a better feel for the community.

I remember @ 7-8yo going to the local convenience store with a note to buy my mom cigarettes.

Dang there are a ton of them up there!

Ok I’ll give it a go and let you know how it goes after. Than you again!

Gah I wish I was near one of those cities, I’m not to far from DC though… Thats a heck of a drie though.

I will say today has been better than yesterday. Kept busy, started taking a vitamin B complex per a lot of the big med/sobriety sites. Got out of the house for a bit, next will find a local meeting. Its slim pickin’s unless I want to drive over an hour.

Now about calling, I’m terrible about that, rather an introvert when it comes to talking to strangers.

But right now its one moment at a time. Keeping everything low stress and low sensory overload. The last two falling offs was socializing too much too fast IRL. Felt great and was whats the harm in one… Then 2 two weeks later I’m back at it at the same levels.

Kinda why I’m slow on the meetings/seeing trusted friends atm.

Thats got to be tough getting dry when you deal w/ booze all the time.

I’m feeling it that is not easy. Craig Ferguson talks about it pretty candidly in one his monologues. I try to keep that in mind right now. If it was easy to kick there would be a single drunk on the planet…

1. Japan
2. Costa Rica
3. Argentina
4. Thailand
5. Poland

I feel that, it sucks I have a beer shop and a liquor story literally right next door. I just opted for funny/interesting YT vids until midnight. My version of hanging onto the bed.

I opted out of ant zoom calls as I was trying to get the thoughts out of my head. Slept terrible, couldn’t fall asleep until 0400 and the most surreal dreams kept that sleep fitful at best.

I do feel better than yesterday so so thats keeping going. Need to eat more today, head feels much clearer, I think some gator-aid or the like would be a good idea too.

And thanks for taking the time to reply, its helping more than you know.

I’ll try a speaker meeting asap, hearing stories like you posted will be inspiring because if they can do it so can I. And 3 hours will be the end of day 2, looking forward to starting day 3 :)

I’ll give that a go, I’m struggling a bit right now and I can’t let going back happen. Hour and a half that option is gone (can’t sell beer after midnight here). Until then off to see what meetings are open.

I love listening to baseball and hockey vs watching it. You have to imagine the game, gets those electrons firing.

I definitely need the distraction tight now.