Powerful post. My first feeling when i started to read this was my beast woke up and said..."yeah, yeah,...you try that now too" but after looking at your dates and the progression I told the beast to shut the h--- up. It's a stubborn bat though, and is still trying to rationalize with me that maybe 5 or 6 drinks a night is not so bad for you, but the question is how do you feel? How does it effect you the next day? Any negative consequences? I know for me, I would not stop at 5 or 6 or 7 or 8. I would call in sick to work and stay in bed hung over.