Welcome Gary and keep posting. I am a newbie too - 30 days complete (Whee). I can tell you that for me after about 2 weeks I could look back at what alcohol was doing to me (and I could feel what alcohol was doing to me) and see it in a way I could never see it with a few days clean. It must get into your system in a big way and really affected my judgment - the webs in the brain are starting to clear up and there is something different there than I realized.
Great that you are here!