i really like wine, with every dinner, or weekend lunch. but beer is good too, before or during the meal. and scotch whiskey before or after. but particularly peaty whiskeys, and esp. laphroaig. but only in winter; johnie walker black all year round. the giant handle of johnnie walker black, from costco, when it’s on sale, buy as many as you can, practically as cheap as jw red, it’s like im making money drinking jw black..

but in summer, gin and tonic, light on the gin, so i can keep drinking them; or micheladas; but definitely greyhounds, with the grapefruits i found in the street near me; maybe a dark and stormy? but really primarily negronis, are my favorite; or all of those, actually. maybe just a martini?

but no bourbon. I can resist that. unless it’s in an old fashioned; or the only drink there. then ok.

and bloody marys with anything brunch like of course. I also really enjoy shopping for liquor in big liquor stores. i love throwing things in my cart.

there’s no way i can do this moderately. all so good. it is sad how zero alcohol is not that difficult, but moderate drinking is impossible. definitely the first thing i would do upon returning home in the evening is fix a drink. first thing….before anything…

alcoholic friend of mine died of throat cancer a while back; pretty sobering…

margaritas!!!

in spite of all of the above, in my opinion, i did not have a drinking problem. but, y’know, science might disagree. so im willing to listen…