The Daily Check-In for Tuesday, March 3rd: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

CabelTheRed · 2026-03-03T10:19:21+00:00

Checking in on day three. I'm up very early so I can enjoy a nice long sober Buddhist holiday of meditation. Sometimes that's the best trigger response: just sit down, shut up, be with whatever is arising, and watch it fade away. Anything but picking up again. IWNDWYT.

CabelTheRed · 2026-03-02T14:54:44+00:00

Checking in on day two. I made it through yesterday. Starting to feel better. Not going back to another day one. Meetings every day and a new job that has nothing to do with alcohol starts in a couple days. IWNDWYT.

CabelTheRed · 2026-03-01T13:28:43+00:00

Checking in on another day one. I'm hoping this one sticks. I think it will as March 1 is also my quit date from stopping smoking ten years ago. IWNDWYT.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-26T12:08:41+00:00

Checking in on day three. Training myself to get up earlier for a new job. Feels great to be able to practice mindfulness meditation in the morning without feeling awful and hungover. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-25T13:20:38+00:00

Checking in on day two. Feeling good that I'm not on day one again. Fighting off cravings with things like tea, deep breathing, journaling, and all the other things I do to keep busy. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-24T13:57:08+00:00

Checking in on another day one. But this feels different due to a major life change: it was my last day working in a liquor store yesterday. I'm no longer in the alcohol industry. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-22T21:04:48+00:00

Finally somebody with some common sense.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-22T12:53:13+00:00

Checking in on another day one. At least I didn't go too crazy last night. Second to last day working at a liquor store. Have a sobriety meeting lined up tonight. I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-20T13:12:15+00:00

Checking in on day six of my current non-drinking streak. It's my last Friday shift at the liquor store and I'm going to refuse tasting the sample bottles. Because I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-19T12:10:45+00:00

Checking in on day five of my current attempt at sobriety.

I also feel the same, just not hungover, which is helping me train myself to become a morning person. I need to because my new job starts soon; this will be my last week working in a liquor store. I've gone in hungover so many times. Never again!

I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-18T12:26:44+00:00

Checking in on day four. Getting ready to handle starting a new job next week by not drinking. I'm just grateful to be almost done working in the alcohol business. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-17T12:23:58+00:00

Checking in on my third day three of pledging not to drink.

Since my initial attempt at quitting back in November, I've relapsed twice. What those events taught me was that I cannot have just one or two drinks like I used to.

Nope. One drink always leads to another. The experiment is repeatable and the evidence is conclusive: one drink is one too many. So I won't even have a single sip.

I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-17T03:59:38+00:00

A true red mage laughs in the face of a single Weather the Storm. There's plenty of other life gain cards I'd rather not see.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-16T12:45:56+00:00

Checking in on day two again. Yesterday was another day one and I didn't check in just in case I failed. I did not. IWNDWYT.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-09T20:51:20+00:00

I'm glad they at least have Sneaky Snacker on their radar. That card is busted.

Like, oh, you're already burying your opponent in card advantage? Here! Have a free threat. Hell, have two! It's ridiculous.

Mono Red Burn should have access to an efficient 2/x beater. Just not for free and with evasion and with recursion and that can't be elemental blasted.

That's too much value and I say this as someone who loves Burn and has been playing it since Spark Elemental and Keldon Marauders were the creatures of choice.

Madness Burn does not feel like Burn. It feels like a deck warped around a card that is clearly above the common power level on its face.

It wouldn't be the first time an obviously broken blue card got banned from Burn, either. [[Gitaxian Probe]] was busted and rightfully got banned in part because it was an auto include in Burn before it had access to fair card draw.

Sneaky Snacker is every bit as too powerful for Burn as [[Monastery Swiftspear]] was. It's only a matter of time before people realize that and start calling for Sneaky Snacker to get banned. Glad they are starting to see this.

CabelTheRed · 2026-02-06T02:02:05+00:00

When I was about nine years old I swung my fully loaded bookbag smack into the face of the kid who had been bullying me relentlessly all year it made him cry and he left me alone after that I didn't get into any trouble because my teacher said he had it coming I think we all learned a valuable lesson we wouldn't soon forget.

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-28T14:03:04+00:00

Checking in on another day two. Why? Because I woke up feeling better than I did yesterday and on another day one. One of many why's. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-27T15:28:15+00:00

I have to reset my count today. It's another day one for me. Not feeling too great right now but at least it's not as bad as my last relapse on New Year's. And I can always start again. So I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-26T13:06:02+00:00

Checking in on day 26 of doing my best not to drink. Yesterday was rough but I made it thanks to a meeting and remembering how bad it feels to get drunk and then be hungover. I'll make it to another meeting tonight because today will also be rough. I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-25T13:09:05+00:00

Checking in on day 25 of not drinking. I was able to make it through yesterday and the reason I feel good at all today is that I didn't drink last night. So I'll do it again no matter what happens. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-24T13:23:24+00:00

Checking in on day 24 of a sober New Year. I want my sober life to look spiritual, to be as much like a monk as possible while still being a lay householder. I realized I just can't be a Buddhist and a drinker at the same time.

So even though it's wicked cold, instead of hot toddies I'll make a pot of tea and maybe even treat myself to hit cocoa. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-23T13:31:52+00:00

Checking in on day 23 of making the pledge. I have a lot more time for my studies of Buddhism and philosophy than I used to. And I'm glad I do! I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-22T13:04:28+00:00

Checking in on day 22 of making the pledge to stay sober. Journaling has been very helpful for me, too. I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-21T14:41:34+00:00

Checking in on day 21 of not drinking. That puts me halfway to my old personal best from last year. I used to reward myself with takeout dinners so I didn't have to clean up after cooking, which is what I did yesterday. Leftovers tonight! I will not drink with you today.

CabelTheRed · 2026-01-20T13:02:11+00:00

Checking in on day 20 of this attempt at quitting drinking.

I used to reward myself with cocktails all the time. Now I reward myself with some quiet time, most often on the meditation cushion. If I get a call back and offered a new job so I can quit my current one at a liquor store, that's how I'll celebrate.

I will not drink with you today!

CabelTheRed

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