Coach update

[Ello Sailor]

Hell yeah. Get it.

[Anders]

I respect your experience and knowledge about it Trag.

[Bammer]

Can we re-name this The Sobriety Thread

[96583UP]

I watched a Go + Animal live performance from '93 yesterday and I can see why you're soy gay for him. Everyone gushes about his cymbal work, but it's the way he abused the kick and snare that does it for me.

exactly

[Kevin Davis]

Just popping in to say hey and wish you all the best, Coach. I’m a sober guy too (much different story, but still for reasons that are pretty personal). Godspeed in your journey.

[Anders]

I watched a Go + Animal live performance from '93 yesterday and I can see why you're soy gay for him. Everyone gushes about his cymbal work, but it's the way he abused the kick and snare that does it for me.

exactly

What does Coach think about him?

[Anders]

How’s it going Coach?

[Coach]

Hey guys, thanks for all the words of support.

I completed the out patient program today and I am going back to work on Monday after a 7+ week absence. I'm excited to start work again. I am 44 days sober and participating a lot at AA meetings again. I truly like them and glad to be back.

I am still butt-hurt with my messy breakup with the ex GF (she won't talk to me, offer any closure), but I am dating a new chick now and I do like her. She is closer to my age, which I think will be a good thing.

I've also lost eight pounds (see weight loss thread) just from kicking booze to the curb. Feel and look great.

[Strat]

Hey guys, thanks for all the words of support.

I completed the out patient program today and I am going back to work on Monday after a 7+ week absence. I'm excited to start work again. I am 44 days sober and participating a lot at AA meetings again. I truly like them and glad to be back.

I am still butt-hurt with my messy breakup with the ex GF (she won't talk to me, offer any closure), but I am dating a new chick now and I do like her. She is closer to my age, which I think will be a good thing.

I've also lost eight pounds (see weight loss thread) just from kicking booze to the curb. Feel and look great.

Congrats coach, glad to hear it.

Also, closure comes from within. Dont search for it from your ex. Much love to you. Keep it up and hope to see you on the flipside again!

[Coach]

Hey guys, thanks for all the words of support.

I completed the out patient program today and I am going back to work on Monday after a 7+ week absence. I'm excited to start work again. I am 44 days sober and participating a lot at AA meetings again. I truly like them and glad to be back.

I am still butt-hurt with my messy breakup with the ex GF (she won't talk to me, offer any closure), but I am dating a new chick now and I do like her. She is closer to my age, which I think will be a good thing.

I've also lost eight pounds (see weight loss thread) just from kicking booze to the curb. Feel and look great.

Congrats coach, glad to hear it.

Also, closure comes from within. Dont search for it from your ex. Much love to you. Keep it up and hope to see you on the flipside again!

Thanks man, I appreciate that. If there's a tour, I'm thinking about Vegas, especially if they open it there.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Jorge]

Happy for you Coach

[spike]

Hey guys, thanks for all the words of support.

I completed the out patient program today and I am going back to work on Monday after a 7+ week absence. I'm excited to start work again. I am 44 days sober and participating a lot at AA meetings again. I truly like them and glad to be back.

I am still butt-hurt with my messy breakup with the ex GF (she won't talk to me, offer any closure), but I am dating a new chick now and I do like her. She is closer to my age, which I think will be a good thing.

I've also lost eight pounds (see weight loss thread) just from kicking booze to the curb. Feel and look great.

Congrats coach, glad to hear it.

Also, closure comes from within. Dont search for it from your ex. Much love to you. Keep it up and hope to see you on the flipside again!

Thanks man, I appreciate that. If there's a tour, I'm thinking about Vegas, especially if they open it there.

Too many temptations in Vegas! Maybe hit up a Missoula show.

[Coach]

Nice work coach.

I know you were sober for a decade, but have you actually done the 12 steps before? FWIW, I like the 12&12 way more than the big book.

Get a sponsor!

Yes, I was sober for 13+ years before the relapse. I got away from meetings and became complacent in like year 6 or 7.

You and I do AA a little different, but of course, I respect your style.

I subscribe to the "buffet theory," where I take and use what I like about AA (meetings everyday, chairing meetings, getting phone numbers), but don't use every tool and method it has to offer.

I'm much more interested in the science behind addiction. When it is explained to me - for example, flooding your system w/ booze depletes the ability to make natural dopamine - it hits home and is motivating to stay sober.

[Coach]

Hey guys, thanks for all the words of support.

I completed the out patient program today and I am going back to work on Monday after a 7+ week absence. I'm excited to start work again. I am 44 days sober and participating a lot at AA meetings again. I truly like them and glad to be back.

I am still butt-hurt with my messy breakup with the ex GF (she won't talk to me, offer any closure), but I am dating a new chick now and I do like her. She is closer to my age, which I think will be a good thing.

I've also lost eight pounds (see weight loss thread) just from kicking booze to the curb. Feel and look great.

Congrats coach, glad to hear it.

Also, closure comes from within. Dont search for it from your ex. Much love to you. Keep it up and hope to see you on the flipside again!

Thanks man, I appreciate that. If there's a tour, I'm thinking about Vegas, especially if they open it there.

Too many temptations in Vegas! Maybe hit up a Missoula show.

Temptations everywhere, liquor stores on every corner. I've done Vegas sober before.

[Coach]

Happy for you Coach

Thanks my friend

[Coach]

Just popping in to say hey and wish you all the best, Coach. I’m a sober guy too (much different story, but still for reasons that are pretty personal). Godspeed in your journey.

Thanks man, looking forward to your thoughts on the new album.

[wease]

Glad to hear of your progress coach.

Listen to strat. You can’t count on the ex for closure. If you wait on her, you’ll never get it.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Higgs]

Hey Coach. Glad you are doing OK just doing you. Keep on ritfw.