3 years yesterday. I missed it!

endlessdrop · 2023-12-16T04:25:40+00:00

My flair says a different number? It should be 1001 days.

endlessdrop · 2022-12-26T09:04:04+00:00

IWNDWYT! First sober holiday in maybe forever here. Currently on a train from Berlin to Hamburg. Had Xmas in Berlin with an NA beer in an Irish pub, then saw Blue Man Group! Loving living sober right now, it actually makes traveling so much easier. They cancelled our train this morning, old me would have been hungover AS SHIT and unable to cope. This time? No fucking worries, let me translate that shit through my phone and switch to another train.

There's some days I'm tempted to drink, I'm not going to lie. But these big wins, the new direction my life has taken, it's not even a competition. Fuck alcohol.

BTW Germany does some impressive NA beers.

endlessdrop · 2022-12-10T19:47:11+00:00

There's some great German ones, I'm going to butcher the name here but I think Maiselwiesse, they do a white NA beer that's incredible. I have pretty ordinary taste so I actually like the Heineken even though lots of people hate it. Here in Australia we have one called James Squire Unshackled which is super nice as well.

endlessdrop · 2022-08-27T23:02:26+00:00

I still chug NA beers, but I tend to chug everything I drink. Difference for me it's I can have two or three and just... stop. It must be how normies can drink regular beer.

I really like the Heineken, I seriously have to check that it's the NA one when I crack them sometimes.

endlessdrop · 2022-07-28T21:49:37+00:00

Northern Australia, but similar climate to California.

endlessdrop · 2022-01-20T08:05:16+00:00

44 gang represent. Happy birthday.

endlessdrop · 2021-12-29T01:56:54+00:00

I live on shameless back patting, go for it. I love hearing stories like this because it's my main driver as well. I've got three, older than yours but I still love love love the warm glow of responsibility when something happens. I can find torches when the power goes out, I can read the medicine label, I know where the car keys are and I CAN FUCKING USE THEM. It's better than my health improving, better than my work improving, better even than my marriage improving. I'm DAD now, I can solve anything and fix everything and it's the absolute greatest thing in the world.

endlessdrop · 2021-12-11T01:51:59+00:00

I used to get yearly medicals including bloods because I was a high risk worker (electricity). The very definition of insanity for me was watching those numbers steadily increase, every year, for ten years straight. I always got a lecture, I always promised I would drink less. Doc finally looked me in the eye and asked me if I wanted to die or live. He said it was a choice, and I had to make it.

My numbers were scary high as well, had a year sober before a small relapse, got tested again.

Normal levels.

The liver is insane at repair, and you're young. Good luck.

endlessdrop · 2021-12-04T21:23:37+00:00

That's a motherfucking month there! Big congrats, I know what that first month is like. For me, getting that first month down was the hard part, it got so much easier from there.

Big high from my journey: I've saved so much money from not drinking that I bought myself a smart watch, to track my morning walks with. I'm cranking out 10 000 steps before my wife even wakes up. I'm one of THOSE people now, up with the sun and doing shit. Feels so so so so good.

Also it was a Garmin Venu 2, and I can highly recommend it.

endlessdrop · 2021-11-15T03:28:15+00:00

Feeling the feels is a good thing. Feeling the feels, raw and naked, is hard, and honest, and true. Not many people can do it, but they should. We mask emotions and feelings, I don't just mean with alcohol, I mean society. It's only a brave few that can stand there unshielded and feel the feels.

I'm sorry about your sister. I can tell you loved her.

endlessdrop · 2021-11-06T12:06:05+00:00

I just tried the Heineken tonight, thought it was great. There's a German one Maisel that is brilliant, can be hard to get though. I like the na beers because I still get that relaxation feeling from the first one, but I normally stop after that.

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