60th day sober. I'm going to keep this tally going at least a year, because since I moved to the mainland, I don't think I've gone a whole year without alcohol once. Even after my drinking had gotten bad and I realized I needed to quit, I don't think I lasted a year dry.
Being sober pretty much rocks. I have things happen, like not being able to find something I really need to send out, bum me out but I don't get those depths of despair I did when I was drinking. There's a fundamental level of optimism - as if there's anything to be optimistic about these days - that buoys me up.
I didn't list things last night but put a ton of things away and re-arranged stuff and so on, and that was a fair amount of work.
I got a good practice in along with half-watching "The Winds Of War" on YouTube. Anything very recent on there has tons of commercials, fucked-up sound, or both. So it's lots of old movies and things like art history for me.
The exercises are getting easier as I strengthen. I worked through the next page in the Rubank book and I can see why the Rubank series is so well-recommended. If a person can work through it, they'll be a pretty accomplished player. My practice was over an hour.
I'm really itching to get out busking this weekend. I've spent about $120 of this last paycheck and I want to get where I'm only spending $100 of each paycheck and can still buy what I want or need. Busking would make this entirely possible.
I was up until past 7AM with the practicing, and as a consequence woke up a bit past 3 in the afternoon.
For some reason the toilet's not flushing and I'm putting nothing solid down it. I can kind of plunge down the level of water, but I dunno what's going on. I've theorized that the machine shop we share a water circuit with is using water for cooling one of their machines and that's making flushing not really work because of the "exit" water circuit being over-taxed, but it seems the machine shop has a hot contract or something because they seem to be running 24/7.
I'm not sure what to do because besides the routine shitting and pissing issues, when I do laundry I dump my wash water down the toilet and with it not working right that makes laundry harder too. I'm thinking I'll dump my wash water into a bucket then empty that out front. And due to living in the old building for years, shitting into a plastic bag is something I have down to a fine art. This is living in Silicon Valley, folks! When I was a broke-ass student back in Hawaii or even before that, a marginally-surviving minimum wage worker, I still had a working loo and a daily shower.
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