Still here, still sober, even if I'm not posting. Yesterday I celebrated 18 years of continuous sobriety.
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Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny since August 1992
Is sobriety all that we can expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning. — Bill W., As Bill Sees It, p. 8
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About Me
- Namenlosen Trinker
- Contact me—via either e-mail or Gmail chat—at namenlosen dot trinker at gmail dot com (replace ' dot ' with '.' and ' at ' with '@'). What I show as my birthday on my profile is actually my sobriety date.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of anyone else (though they should be). Absolutely nothing contained herein is intended or should be construed as being affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or as being representative of the opinion of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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
Resources
- • Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book, non-searchable PDF)
- • Big Book text search
- • Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (links to HLP, TXT & PDF at bottom of page)
- • Alcoholics Anonymous (General Service Office)
- • A.A. Grapevine
- • The A.A. Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service
- • Hindsfoot Foundation
- • Silkworth.net
- • A.A. History Lovers
- • XA-Speakers
- • dryblog
- • Alcohol: Problems and Solutions
- • Silent Treatment: Addiction in America
- • Addicted.com
- • miseryisoptional.info
- • Came to Believe
- • Sober Re-Sources
- • Everything is Broken
- • The Second Road
- • Modern Drunkard magazine (actually a kind of anti-resource)
More about my favorite subject
Drinkers and non-drinkers
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- [The listing of a blog below is solely at my discretion and in no way constitutes an endorsement of the thoughts and ideas expressed therein.]
- • 1 Door Away From Heaven
- • Al-Anon Lifer
- • Alchoholics [sic] Anonymous
- • Alcoholic Brain
- • All My Affairs
- • among the living
- • Anonymous & Recovering Biker & Sober Harley Rider
- • Anonymous Alcoholic
- • Attitude of Gratitude
- • Bouncing Off the Bottom
- • Brain Dead Genius
- • Broad Highway, The
- • claritycase
- • Clean and Sober
- • Coffee Bitch
- • Continuing Adventures Of A Jedi Master, The
- • CreAAtive Intelligence
- • Daily Piglet
- • day in the life of Alcohol and drug Recovery, A
- • Dear Bill W.
- • Diary Of A Booze Hag
- • Discovering Alcoholic, The
- • Doctor's Girlfriend
- • Down from the Mountain
- • Dozen Steps, A
- • Drinkin' Joe's
- • Eclectic Recovery
- • EileenHeatherLeah
- • Elephant on Main Street
- • enjoytoday
- • Everything is Broken — What It's Like Now
- • Expanding My Wings
- • Fellow Traveler
- • finally f.re.e.
- • Finding My Way Back To Me
- • flowerdaves pages
- • Frunobulax 57
- • Geisha, Interrupted
- • Give Me The Highway
- • Goldendaze-ginnie
- • Gospodi Pomiluj
- • Hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe
- • higher powered
- • I Don't Know Where I'm From... But I Do Know Where I've Been
- • I'm just F.I.N.E.
- • iGrateful
- • Improve Our Conscious Contact
- • In God's Hands
- • inconvienent truth, the
- • It's a Girl Thing
- • It's In The Book
- • Jay's Sobriety Blog
- • Journey's the Thing..., The
- • Judgemental Whore, The
- • Junky's Wife, The
- • Lady Geek Gazette, The
- • Last Call
- • Letting go
- • Life as Lushgurl
- • Life on Whidbey
- • life safari
- • Lisa J's Blog
- • Lounge Daddy: Chronicles
- • Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights
- • Mantramine
- • melsdream
- • My Journey To Recovery
- • My life in Tampa
- • My Sober Life
- • New Beginnings
- • On The Way Outta Hell
- • One Mother's Heart to Another
- • Onward
- • Outright Mental Defective
- • Prison's A Bitch
- • Progress Not Perfection II
- • Rae's Confessions
- • Ragamuffin Ramblings
- • Ray's attempt at consistency
- • Reason A Season A Lifetime, A
- • Recovering Beauty
- • Recovering Family
- • Recovering Wino
- • Recovery Archive
- • Recovery Road
- • Recovery Rodeo
- • RECRUM: Recovery Ruminations
- • Red Cardinal
- • relationships in recovery
- • Road of Happy Destiny
- • Room of Mama's Own, A
- • ScOuT's NeWCoMer DaZE
- • second surrender
- • Seeking the Cranberry
- • serene gleam
- • smussyolay, the
- • Sober Chick
- • Sober New Jersey
- • Sober Steve
- • SoberNuggets
- • sobriety girl
- • Sobriety is Exhausting
- • Sobriety Society
- • Stay-at-Home-Mayhem
- • Staying Straight Edge ...
- • Stop, Drop, Recover
- • Stray thoughts on life
- • Swimming in Clear Water
- • There's only one way up...
- • These Rooms
- • They tell me to "Keep Coming Back"
- • This can't be it
- • This Unmanageable Life
- • Thorn in My Flesh (née Stay-At-Home Motherdom)
- • TodAAy
- • True Thoughts Of A Alcoholic/MOTHER
- • TwelveBeads
- • Two Dogs Blogging
- • ukjohnd.com
- • Vicarious Rising
- • What is your Deepest Fear?
- • What Winners Do
- • Whatever it takes
- • Write Thought, The
- • You and Me Are Floating On A Tidal Wave
On hiatus
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- [No posts in more than a month or blogsite not found]
- • … and I am Somebody
- • AAwakenings
- • Alcoholic Thoughts Blessed with Recovery
- • Another Door Opens
- • Beyond AA Twelve Steps
- • Big Sky mAAck dAAddy
- • Bob's Trudge
- • Connemara Dreams
- • dAAve and more
- • day in the life of my recovery, a
- • Dr.Jekyll v.s. Mr. Hyde
- • Drew's Recovery
- • Dying for a Drink
- • Free Man, A
- • Freedom From Bondage
- • God-loving Buddhist drunk
- • Is this place for me?
- • Journey to Wellness
- • Just Today
- • Kickin' It ---- My Monkey
- • Living the Recovery Programme
- • Lucid Madness
- • Luscious LaJuana
- • Lush for Life
- • ode to a nightingale
- • on a clear day...
- • One Primary Purpose
- • raanch
- • Recovery Downunder
- • Recovery in Indianapolis
- • Scary Times
- • second surrender
- • Sense of Community, A
- • She's On the Way Back—Beyond AA
- • Simply Anna
- • Sincerely Sober
- • Sober Brit Chick
- • Sober Conversation
- • Sobering Thoughts
- • soberlogger
- • sobermusicians.com
- • Standing under the Sky
- • Steady as she goes...
- • Sunlight of the Spirit
- • Teachable alcoholic
- • Thy Will, Not Mine
- • Tom's Journey
- • Voyage of The Sobernaut, The
- • We Quit Drinking
- • Wine-O
- • World of an Addict, The
- • ZaneJabbers
Way too much time on my hands
Other stuff
4 comments:
congratulations! new here. will be back.
Congrats on 18 years! If you're like me, you wouldn't trade your sobriety for anything today!
Thanks to both of you. And yes, I am like you, Anonymous: wouldn't trade the results of my sobriety for anything!
G-d and the people He's put in your path have served you well.
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