Originally Posted by
scaredofchange 
as far as the mini bar, I won't touch it 100%. my alcoholism is more of a "when I drink, I drink TOO much and don't stop" rather than drinking every day. I'm lucky and not lucky in that respect
I feel the same way. It's not hard, in fact it's normal, for me to go several days without drinking and while I've gotten all the vodka/beer out of my house, I have a bottle of red wine and some bourbon lying around that don't tempt me at all. They're both stuff my brother left at my apartment and he stays with me when he's in town and will often have one small glass of bourbon in the evenings.
Anyway, those business conferences are brutal. Even worse for me when it's just me and none of my co-workers, so I don't have to worry about embarassing myself in front of people I work with every day. But I wind up getting hammered and will be so embarrassed I won't even go to the 2nd day of the conference and will basicaly wind up wasting my company's money for even sending me.