What's up Buck! Great to see you here, as always. (I just posted my own 3 years sober thread - right here with you).
I don't know if I have anything directly to contribute to your post. It made me think and that was welcome this morning. More generally though it's exciting to me that we have our lives now to live on whatever terms we choose - rather than being caught in the brutal ugly cycle of drinking. I have my obstacles and patterns of thought that I finally can examine and deal with, or at least try. Thanks for the reminder to introspect a bit today. And thanks for being an example of what it means to overcome this nasty habit. Hope to see you here more often.