Dave Karoly, post: 433987, member: 94 wrote: It's the American way overdo everything, nothing in moderation.
Coffee is my real vice, I love coffee.
A few drinks do help me loosen up when we're out dancing. But I always wind up embarrassing my wife. Last time we went out I thought I was dancing really well...until someone stepped on my hand. 😉
I drank a lot in my younger days; first in college, then I spent a lot of time in my early 20's playing league/club rugby...and that is a subculture that takes it's drinking seriously.
I seem to metabolize alcohol pretty well, and I'm kind of a big guy, so I can drink a good bit. And I'm lucky in that it doesn't seem to have any hold on me. I can fly down to the islands for vacation and go on what to some would seem like a bender of Dylan Thomas proportion (pretty much a drink an hour for a week straight) then come home and not have a drink for a month.
With summer coming on I have developed quite the hankering for a radler now and then
http://www.americancraftbeer.com/what-the-hell-is-a-radler/
to go along with my summer standby, lemonade and homemade blackberry liquor.
James Fleming, post: 433990, member: 136 wrote: I drank a lot in my younger days; first in college
What took you so long?
Dave Karoly, post: 433987, member: 94 wrote: Coffee is my real vice, I love coffee.
A while back an acquaintance turned me on the the fact that some of the funniest twitter accounts are those, not as one would expect, of comedians, rather "adult actresses". One such thespian posted a months back: "Once I give up coffee I'll have no more vices...except for the whole 'whoring' thing".
Jim Frame, post: 433993, member: 10 wrote: What took you so long?
Oh I started much earlier than that, it just took a couple of years to build up to the "a lot" part. My collegiate "a lot" was a fifth of stoli and a 64oz can of grapefruit juice in a slow Friday night when nothing was going on.
I didn't know there were this many sober surveyors. No offense intended. Refreshing indeed......in my experience, seems we as a profession drink too much. Seen a lot of good surveyors this way. I enjoy drinking, but don't depend on it.
Back when I was in college a surveyor from Virginia came down and spoke to class one day. He told this story about how one year he couldn't seem to stay out of the bar, but he had an excuse, because in that year his business was failing, his wife left him, and his daughter told him she was a lesbian.
I think that it's a fair observation that the goal of land surveying is moderation or right proportion. Addictions in any form, even addiction to the idea of abstinence, are usually the enemy of moderation. That's not say, however, that the genes a person has inherited are more or less the basis of his or her fate in many matters, including whether alcohol is a force majeure in life or not.
Being an engineer that does some surveying I can appreciate why surveyors would drink - to clear the throat after a day in the field but also to numb the pain of executing and taking responsibility for a survey. Similar things arise in engineering but from my experience the numbing of that pain leads to more pain. Gratitude to the OP and the contributions thereafter.
Richard Imrie, post: 434011, member: 11256 wrote: Being an engineer that does some surveying I can appreciate why surveyors would drink - to clear the throat after a day in the field but also to numb the pain of executing and taking responsibility for a survey.
Richard : In my experience, it is the sheer physical work involved in a typical day in the field, the digging, prying, climbing, bending, kneeling, and pounding, that makes the thought of a pint afterwards such a welcome vision of civilzation. Obviously, the pint must be of something better than mediocre swill to be fair recompense, but a pint of good beer and aspirin is nearly always therapeutic.
It took me a good while to realize that for me alcohol had the exact opposite of effects from those intended; when I would drink to relieve stress more would come my way, when drinking to take my mind off something I would fixate on it instead, etc.
Confronting such paradoxes coupled with the severity of hangovers as I entered middle age are why I choose to abstain.
party chef, post: 434033, member: 98 wrote: It took me a good while to realize that for me alcohol had the exact opposite of effects from those intended; when I would drink to relieve stress more would come my way, when drinking to take my mind off something I would fixate on it instead, etc.
Confronting such paradoxes coupled with the severity of hangovers as I entered middle age are why I choose to abstain.
Well said. My family kindly asked me to take a break from drinking about 4 years ago. I did. They are glad and so am I. I was not a happy drunk.
Holy Cow, post: 433952, member: 50 wrote: The Type II diabetes diagnosis finished any thoughts of alcohol consumption. It was a rare treat anyways so it was not a big deal. I joke that I rattle when I walk from all the pills.
Me too. I've been told I can have one drink per day but I have rarely has one since my diagnosis in 1998. I did have one at last fall's ASPLS conference. It took me 3 days to get over it. And that was not a hangover.
Dave Karoly, post: 433964, member: 94 wrote: I like IPA and good whiskey. I allow myself one IPA per day or I here from Jameson's Grandma about it, you'd think I was descending into the depths of alcoholic hell ;). I can't metabolize it as well as I used to so I usually don't want a second one.
Whiskey is a once a week thing at most, I just pour some in a small glass. Daughter gave me a bottle of Redemption Rye for Fathers Day, that stuff is good.
I can't believe any Rye is good. But we have a wealth of excellent IPA's here in the PNW.
Paul Landau, post: 434084, member: 2526 wrote: I can't believe any Rye is good. But we have a wealth of excellent IPA's here in the PNW.
http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/delicious/beers/flagship-series/tricerahops.html?ageVerified=defaultValue&apos ;">Tricerahops!
Vodka neat. Side of seltzer and/or cranberry juice.
I am going through a bottle of Litchfield from CT, very good
Otherwise, Tito's.
Ramblin' Jack & Derroll Adams
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Saw enough falling down drunks early in life. Never saw where it did any of them any good...long term or otherwise. Never made me aspire to be them. I'm sure many do glorify its "benefits", since so much of the stuff is sold. I'm sure I must have missed out on a lot of something.
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