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    Wednesday, August 08, 2007  

    E62, Part Seven: I find myself walking home at 4am, but I'm not drunk, not even tipsy. Nearly 100 days sober, in fact. The only chemicals coursing through these veins are caffeine and nicotine: I'm high from some late-night/early-morning blogging.



    There's a fellow walking just in front of me, swaying down the sidewalk. Clearly intoxicated, he careens left and right, a bag of grub in hand, barely able to keep himself moving progressively forward. It looks like it will take him quite some time to get to his destination.



    I say to myself, "That was me."

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    Saturday, May 19, 2007  

    E62, Part Six: Wow, it's 8 o'clock *in the morning* and I'm sitting
    outside one of my favorite places; in fifteen minutes there will be a
    meeting for drunks here, one that I am destined to attend. Three
    meeting in less than 24 hours! (Four in 36!) That's *got* to be a
    new record, or approaching one...

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    Friday, May 18, 2007  

    E62, Part Five: Still feeling shaky after the AA meeting; I'm
    thinking I might go to another this evening, perhaps the men's stag
    meeting nearby. I feel like I need that meeting or something.
    Perhaps any will do, but I sense that it will be a good meeting to
    attend. It's like I simply didn't get enough from attending one
    meeting today, or this past week.

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    E62, Part Four: Another day, and let's make it to another meeting (or
    Meeting, with a capital M). Two days in a row, why not? Today has
    been a restful day for this has-been, a day spent watching a
    documentary about Starbucks. (How's that for a sober experience?) A
    restful day, for the most part, though the mind is always restless. A
    day on a path unlikely to lead to a bar then jail or a car crash. A
    decent day, you could say, though some of my obsessions are still
    getting the best of me.

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    E62, Part Three: Seems I'm posting about sobriety, or living sober,
    alot lately. Well, that is a big part of my life right now, trying to
    live without alcohol or pills or any other mind-altering substance
    (besides caffeine). That's just the way it is; I've got to maintain.
    Otherwise, I'm just floating out there, not doing much living. Not
    healthy living, anyway. So that's that -- death or life, and I'm
    choosing life, for the most part. Still have to cut this (renewed)
    smoking habit.

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    Thursday, May 17, 2007  

    E62, Part Two: So now I return to my 12-Step meeting, an afternoon
    group with an interesting format. I haven't gone to this meeting for
    a week. It feels good to be typing this. Soothing. I wait across
    the street, bitter aftertaste of a cigarette in my mouth, anticipating
    the serenity that will come from the occasion.

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    Monday, May 14, 2007  

    E62, Part One: Find myself in serious jeopardy, missing a meeting --
    and for what? A cup of coffee I don't need and an excuse? (Yes, I
    need to do homework, but isn't my recovery more important?) Well,
    tomorrow I'll surely make a meeting...

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    I intend to blog from my phone, a Nokia E62. So here's my first post,
    which I'm sending to go@blogger.com. From there, Blogger will convert
    my email into a blog, and then I will claim that blog. Once claimed,
    I will integrate the blog into my existing blog. By the time you read
    this post, the blog may already be integrated.

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