My Uncle John was so bad, his son said he had to call him before 9 a.m. or he was incoherent. He used to keep an open bottle of J&B under his drivers' seat.
When he was drunk, he was a crying, self-pitying whiner. When he was sober, he was a vicious bully. Nobody misses him.
He was an...
I had a girlfriend whose dad was a Muslim. I think she got her alcoholism from him. He came from a family that didn't drink, and then he had an atheist daughter who changed the pattern by drinking, and she became an alcoholic. I think the inclination was suppressed in his family because it...
It seems to me that some people have a self-limiting apparatus, and others do not. I don't think willpower is much of a factor, because there are drunks who are very disciplined in other areas. The same is true for fat people, and the world is full of skinny people who are total idiots.
If I...
I had to get rid of some big fallen oaks recently, and while I was cutting up oaks and surrounding trash, I noticed some of the trees smell exactly like hops.
Had to rip out a couple of trees today and cut up a magnolia that was too close to the workshop. Not the greatest job of tree-felling!
Came back in and dropped my shirt on the floor. It went "PLOP." Summer is here. Doesn't matter what month it is.
Time for one or more Yard Boss Lagers.
I changed my oil and poured a quart on the driveway before putting the plug back in. Failed to torque the lugs on my cart correctly and had a wheel fall off. I made some kind of mistake with a keg of ale and pumped maybe 1.5 gallons into the keezer.
When I was in high school, I drove about two...
Yesterday I got stuck with my wife at the special DMV office for foreigners, where she was supposed to take a written test and road test. While I was there suffering severe butt damage from the awful hard chairs, I read Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz. It's a memoir from a...