Alcoholic Diary: August 2010

19 August 2010

Eighteen years

Still here, still sober, even if I'm not posting. Yesterday I celebrated 18 years of continuous sobriety.

Dramatis personae

• A Zany Billiard — Sister-in-law, married to BassMan I
• Abbott — The Rock's first sponsor
• AdenineLush — Current Area Delegate
• Alf — Step-son
• Amadeus — Brother-in-law
• Banner Sky — Not a person; a nearby bar I never drank in, though I'm not sure why—it was just my kind of cheap dive
• BassMan I — Brother
• Bear — Former DCM who unexpectedly died in Feb 2007
• Bitter Cookie — Ex-wife
• Bumblebee — a sponsee, now deceased as a result of his alcoholism
• Calked Marlin — Garden-variety drunk
• ChinBeard — an old A.A. friend
• Cumulonimbus — Close personal friend and former drinking buddy who spent four years in A.A.
• Dad — My father
• Dancing Bear — Long-time pigeon
• Deadbeat Dad — Wife's ex-husband, who at one time really was one of the biggest child support deadbeats in the state
• Dean-o — Brother-in-law, married to Sis
• Diego — One of Dancing Bear's sponsees
• Doppelganger — Brother
• Ferdinand — Brother
• Graven Latte — A very close friend and recovering alcoholic in general service
• HennaLoge — Sister-in-law, married to Doppelganger
• Idlerich — Ex-wife’s boyfriend and now husband
• J.J. Rangstorm —My first service sponsor, though I didn't know that's what he was at the time
• LaTroy — Step-daughter
• Lloyd Right — a double-trouble sponsee, now deceased
• Luigi — another recovering alcoholic
• Macron Larks — My [non-alcoholic] therapist
• Mobs Sissy — Step-daughter
• Mom — My mother
• Mr Riches-to-Rags — one of my newer pigeons
• Ms Sobriety — Long-time sober friend & high school sweetheart
• Nimue — Wife (soon to be ex-wife)
• Nonces Juicy — First cousin and wife to Cumulonimbus
• OneEighty — Sister-in-law, married to Ferdinand
• Overseer — Temporary pigeon as of October 2007
• Painter — Daughter
• Placido — Brother
• Ralph — My second sponsor
• Revson — Son-in-law, married to S-Cat, , father of my four grandchildren
• Rock, The — Current sponsor
• S-Cat — Daughter, married to Revson, mother of my four grandchildren
• Sharia Fettle — Not a person; a local bar I used to drink in
• Sis — Sister
• Tamborine — my girlfriend
• ThetaMayos — Sister-in-law, married to Placido
• Thorn — Step-son
• Timber Ruse — An alcoholic friend who got sober just after I did
• Tom Florentine — Panel 53 DCM
• Vertebrae Shanty — Not a person; a local bar I used to drink in
• WhackJob — Garden-variety drunk

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19 August 2010

Eighteen years

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