Thanks Kmbr, AWOL, LaFemme and spqr! Your responses were great and it's nice to know you understand/identify with what I was feeling. I'm lucky to have you all to bounce things off of. Thanks again! I'm going to reprint this thread for future "reference."
Sometimes I forget that those drinking days weren't happy times either. If I added up all the bad days in sobriety, they'd probably be a drop in the bucket compared to my active drinking days.
by that time the beer will be warm and flat, and the sun will have set
haha, AWOL - ain't it the truth!!!