GerandTwine, I obviously didn't make my point clearly enough. I have made a Big Plan. I am securely abstinent. I care not whether my AV cries out for alcohol all day, or not at all. If it cries out, I ignore.....if it's absent, I ignore its absence ( i.e. don't view it as 'good' because it might be using its absence to do push-ups in the car park).
What concerned me though, is newcomers (this is a new to AVRT thread) who are becoming acquainted with and learning AVRT. Because you saying that the absence of the AV is 'good'. When I learnt AVRT recently, the presence of the AV or lack thereof, was neither good nor bad. I don't drink, whatever the AV is doing, or plotting......