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Welcome to SR Sobriety backwards.

DarkDays

Iam stone cold sober and very cool , especially when I am In the company of sheep like drinkers at any function or party , yep sober is so cool , being saying it right from day 1.

Yteirbos

For years I did not like drunks but kept being around them and eventually would end up worse than them>**** I have tails of woe as I am sure others have. Happy to be here and celebrating man. I survived a heart attack, lost 100 lbs, gave up land animals and beer, all in Aug 2012. It was not until a really bad wine hangover in the end of May that year that I said ENOUGH!!! I will never look back!

miko67

Who's this band in video?? Thank you for putting me onto them!
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Yteirbos

I did not post the video, but it is Daryl Hall's house band he uses for his series, "Daryl's House." Daryl Hall is half of Hall and Oates. I agree, the band is quite good. I was most impressed as to how good Daryl sounds and plays...Whew it is good stuff.

Taking5

Do you have a link to that? That is 48 minutes of music and I have to go watch Alabama spank Oklahoma's ass.

Taking5

Yteirbos,

I remember the first time I went into a bar after sobering up. About 15 people said to me "where you been?". I told them I needed to quit so I hadn't been in for a while. About half of those people told me how much they admired my decision. One joined me in sobriety and 4 or 5 tried to buy me a drink. (That last group, IMHO, has their own drinking problems).

But support by over half of my drinking buddies? Trust me me a lot of people will think you are cool when you are sober.

Dee74

hit the youtube icon in the lower right corner T5 -it opens to you tube and you can save the youtube URL

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EndGameNYC

Gotta dust this off and bring it out again, since this thread reminds me of it. From a guy at an AA meeting: "Addiction is undefeated, and the only tie is Keith Richards."

There are plenty of dead cool people who died from one of the many things that made them cool.

AlefVavResh

this!

Welcome.

copperfield

thanks for the post Yteirbos. I am a musician and have really struggled over the years with all the access to alcohol and drugs.

Yteirbos

I feel for you. My brother is a musician (drummer)and at 55 he still drinks and lives the bar gig trip. I am a concert photographer when not doing my day job and learned a few years ago how to shoot in bars/venues with beer that I could not shoot and drink @ the same time. This really helped me to stop. As you know the RnR life style is everywhere and easy to live, harder to stop.Thanks for the shout out.