wanna got to rehab.

I feel like I'lm just starting to get to the alcohol part of the holidays.

i know!
and it continues today....
after work ... the work crew is going out for beverages.... yay!

this is why I took a break. now my liver is stronger than ever for the torrent of abuse I will unleash upon it.

Yeah, I been takin 'er easy as well in preparation and so as not to get sick.

I've been going since Wednesday when my break started. Nothing extreme, though. Just a steady diet of White Russians while lounging around the house. I'm feeling pretty relaxed and things just got going.

I just cracked one of the Sapporos that's been in my fridge for a few weeks. Then i'm goin to help my grandmother set up lights for her annuasl party tomorrow, then it's the Spinto Band tonight. wyckyd.

looks like it's short glasses for me...

Tonight we're throwing a party at my house. So when I get off I'm going home to start decorting, drinking, and cooking. It should be fun as a bunch of friends for Baton Rouge are coming.

jesus man, it's still pretty early.

well YEAH, but it's vacation. Also, I'm not pounding it, just drinking it absentmindedly while I pick up the house and make myself an omelet.

that's awesome. i'm going to go take my wife to lunch and drink a beer in front of her before returning her to work.

that's even more awesome. will it be one of your own?

unfortunately no. i'm afraid to say that i don't think that the great maple porter experiment is going to work out. pretty sure i fucked that up beyond repair, and i'm beginning to wonder if the IPA is gonna be one fermenting in time for me to bottle it before we leave.

i had some spice mix with red wine, heated. mold wine? anyway, smelled like cinammon schnapps and tasted ok. not my cup of choco.

bottle it in the car.

i have to figure out how to keep from my parents that I have off on monday so I don't have to go with them to Maryland on Sunday.

seems easy enough, just tell them that you have to work, right?

I think I already told them I had off and was going to the girl's house in Johnstown.

watch me backpedal!

yeah, i'm going to need you to start standing up to your family here pretty soon.

I quit drinking. I quit around 1 am last night, and so far I'm still on the wagon.

standing up to? yeah i do that a bit too often. I just need to move further away from them.

If you keep at this, C, you'll eventually explore the straight-to-cornelius keg option, instead of bottles (even 22's like you just bought, which do help). You make bank now... get you a regulator, some hoses, some CO2, and a few empty corny kegs. Oh, and a tap.

I am trying to progress even beyond that, and set up a keg/tap arrangement here in the new place. There's a perfect pantry right behind one wall of the kitchen. If I were to just go buy kegs instead of bottles / cans, I wouldn't have to take out recycling, and I'd save about $80 million a year, it feels like.

some presents this week:

from saleslady who's leaving for the competition come the new year:
2 six packs Guinness Draft, bottles

from boss: 2 4-packs Guinness Draft, cans

from next door neighbor: 1 4-pack Guinness Draft, can

from child care provider: case of Sam Adams Winter


Booze makes a good gift, I guess.

I HATE TEQUILA. TEQUILA IS THE DEVIL'S SPAWN.

i started off my night with tequila last night, and it was game over. we rode a shopping cart in a drunken stupor, fell on our asses, and stole the cart and carried it up a flight of stairs. it was pretty damn awesome.

and now i suffer the consequences.

Tequila is "my drink". But then again, so is vodka. And Kahlua. And...

But I am not a pickle.

drink your tequila with a water back, I had 5 or10 shots of Don Julio and Patron last night toasting with customers. drink your water, people!

ps, shopping carts turned over make excellent ice sleds....just saying.