Comments on: Sobriety

By: Chris Quartly

Chris Quartly — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:39:05 +0000

I didn’t see this blog until I returned from holiday but I just wanted to say congratulations. It’s not always easy to kick bad habits.

By: KingpinXXX

KingpinXXX — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:36 +0000

I never got involved in drinking or drugs. But I know how hard it is to quit I grew up in a family with several addiction problems (Mom & Dad). And my father ultimately died at the age of 49 because he didn’t stop. CONGRATULATIONS of your sobriety. Now bring on the POO jokes.

By: Philip Davetas

Philip Davetas — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:27:52 +0000

Man, I haven’t seen this blog until I slipped past it yesterday. You blog so damn much lately, that it’s almost hard for me to keep up. Firstly, congrats on your cleanliness and sobriety. I’ve seen how tough it could be on folks to stay that way. I used to volunteer at the VA and man, do you hear and see a lot of fucked up scenarios. What’s worse is that most of these guys went through war and came back only to become junkies and staples of the VA hospital. Not because they need to be, but they want to be. It also doesn’t help that these guys are constantly fucked over by the VA system. Not that there aren’t good things and good people at the VA, but I think there’s abuse on all ends which makes for a fucked up relationship. You have the junkies wanting to surf the system. You have the VA hierarchy tired of their asses. And you have others that really need help and because of that shitty relationship people after them have to suffer.

By: amv86

amv86 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:08:48 +0000

Congratulations! A lot of people close to me are currently ruining their lives as well as lives of other people with drugs. I’m glad you have been able to stay sober mostly for yourself but also because without your projects and tireless social networking, I don’t think I would find a comparable form of entertainment to distract me from completing the work I should be doing on the computer.

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:29:44 +0000

Congrats on the years of sobriety!

By: Tracy!

Tracy! — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:08:50 +0000

Congrats my friend. This is a nice little change from your vulgar dark humor most of your blogs usually are, even though I appreciate those just as much.

By: Ben Newton

Ben Newton — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:01:59 +0000

Congrats, and thanks for sharing this part of yourself with us.

By: Maddy_Bauer

Maddy_Bauer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:38:37 +0000

I’m not really a drinker myself. If I really want to, I drink, but 9 times out of 10 I just hit the coke (or preferably Irn Bru) and party happy, sober and ready to ridicule the numpties the next day who went too far :P.

Personally I prefer to go out on a night out with folk who don’t drink or at least keep it in moderation. It makes for a genuinely good time rather than everyone who is drunk thinking it’s fucking awesome when in actual fact you’ve been sitting in the corner of a shitty club, listening to the campest 80s music while surrounded by nothing but ugly or gay members of the opposite sex and so rendering you bored to tears! At least when sober you have the sense to find a change of scene ;).

So is this blog in place of phoning your bro to wish him happy birthday, or did you fold and phone too?

By: sooo_yeah

sooo_yeah — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:35:55 +0000

I think that having a little serious moment every once in a while helps make all the funny things, more funny. kinda like the reverse of a laugh to break up a tense moment. I also find that I share alot more than I normally do here as well. I kind of get the same thing, if I hang around people enough they share things with me that they don’t tell other people.

definatly congrats to you.

people often think I’m a little strange when I tell them I don’t like to “party” but I have good reasons. first I’m allergic to smoke, so smoking anything is out of the question. lol. but I don’t like to take anything that changes the way I perceive the world becuase as a kid ( and even now) I always took comfort in my “imaginary world” and was always daydreaming and making up stories in my head, so taking anything kept me from that made me extreamly sad. it was because of that,and some bad side effects, that I wasn’t medicated for my ADD. I used to cry and tell my mom that my brain was to heavy. lol seriously. I even hated taking anything when I was sick (still do sometimes)

By: Brian G

Brian G — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:02:42 +0000

Thanks for the post. I’m in total agreement with you here. I, too, was a partier until a few years ago. Now I create an animated web series that I write, score, and act in, and if I hadn’t given up my parting ways I wouldn’t be doing any of that. Not tooting my own horn, just saying that I can’t party and be productive. I know people who can, I just ain’t one of ‘em.