MrHixxx 0 #26 December 10, 2004 Now how the hell did you calculate the hours and minutes? Are you privy to some hightech endodrunk calculator? I haven't the slightest idea what time it was the next day in detox (Yes, I walked into the treatment center drunk on a Monday morning). But, I guess that puts me around 5556 days. My simple premise for the bleak times is, its temporary. So damn simple, its worked for 15 years... Don't take yourself too seriously, nobody else does. Coffee in large quantities makes you say the damnedest things and you poop funny later on. Don't forget, Lord luvs a workin' man, don't trust Whitey, and go to a doctor and get rid of it. -Hixxxdeath,as men call him, ends what they call men -but beauty is more now than dying’s when Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dropdeded 0 #27 December 10, 2004 there is a "sobriety calculator". I suck at linking stuff but I'll google it, be right back... pm'd to ya------------------------------------------ The Dude Abides. - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumperconway 0 #28 December 10, 2004 Nope, Alcoholics go to meetings, drunks just go! Alcoholics are quitters, everyone hates a quitter! More power to you! I personally have no reason to be a quitter! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outdoorflygirl 0 #29 December 10, 2004 Hooray! Keep it up! There are many rewards when we hurdle the challenges in our way instead of focusing on them and crashing. So happy for you!!!!!___________________________________ Yeah, I know better. PMS #341 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #30 December 10, 2004 Congratulations! It ins't always easy but it is worth it in so many ways. (Since November 3, 1980 for me.) Blue skies,-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JumpNFly 0 #31 December 10, 2004 thanks everyone... JDOG... use my pm's and stay in touch... everyone else too... you guys FREAKING ROCK!!!!!!!! The key to walking on water... Is knowing where the rocks are Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrHixxx 0 #32 December 10, 2004 The wonders of the internet! I must amend my original calculation with my new high-tech one. Make that 5561 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes... -Hixxxdeath,as men call him, ends what they call men -but beauty is more now than dying’s when Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killler 2 #33 December 10, 2004 I've got 5 1/2yrs.... I wish I'd found Bill W. 25yrs ago.... Life is so much easier when you live life on life terms and not yours.... Can someone post a link to the sobriety calculator for me ..... killer.... The wife has 6yrs.... Marriage is so much better with a friend of bill.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christoofar 0 #34 December 10, 2004 This is about the same kinf of logic some from some former friends who have done the heroin thing was using. addict: "I just do it to lose weight." Yeah, all the voices in your head tell you you're hot, right? ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killler 2 #35 December 10, 2004 I don't get what you are saying? Killer........ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumperconway 0 #36 December 10, 2004 QuoteThis is about the same kinf of logic some from some former friends who have done the heroin thing was using. addict: "I just do it to lose weight." Yeah, all the voices in your head tell you you're hot, right? Heroin to lose weight? Nope that's what speed, crack and cocaine are for! You did take my post with a grain of salt right? Whatever you have to do! Do it well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #37 December 10, 2004 Clean and sober almost 7 or 8 years now. I am just trying to remember whether I took my last drink at a New Year's Eve Party at the end of 1995 or 1996. Life definitely gets easier without the hang-overs. ... though I am still learning how to live life on life's terms. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marz 0 #38 December 10, 2004 Quote Heroin to lose weight? Nope that's what speed, crack and cocaine are for! You did take my post with a grain of salt right? Whatever you have to do! Do it well. I never used heroin, but a friend of mine did. He's 38 but looks in his mid-twenties. I asked him once how come he looked so young and he grinned and said: "I took a ten-year nap!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tink1717 2 #39 December 12, 2004 Sorry I didn't see the post right away. FOB skydiver 36 here. 18 years Clean & Sober.Skydivers don't knock on Death's door. They ring the bell and runaway... It really pisses him off. -The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!) AA #2069 ASA#33 POPS#8808 Swooo 1717 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bdbrown 0 #40 December 12, 2004 2 years 7 months clean, after 23 years of trying anything think I blew a drinking fuse.....Life is sweet -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IB52 0 #41 December 12, 2004 Just saw your thread - happy birthday! 23 years for me - one day at a time. Hang in there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IB52 0 #42 December 12, 2004 Sobriety Calculator Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #43 December 12, 2004 I drank my lifetime quota before age 40. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killler 2 #44 December 12, 2004 QuoteI drank my lifetime quota before age 40. I think we may have gone over it... I know for a fact that I did.... Killer....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #45 December 12, 2004 QuoteI drank my lifetime quota before age 40. I was done at 28. Glad I got that over with Nov 3, 1980.....24 years and counting. Congrats to everybody!!!!!-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JumpNFly 0 #46 December 12, 2004 398 days 11 hours 16 minutes and I'm 26... hit my lifetime quota before 20 The key to walking on water... Is knowing where the rocks are Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killler 2 #47 December 12, 2004 Great job...I love it when I see people get it early in life.... I know that the wife and I got sober just in time to help the kids see the bad and the good of being sober vs drunk... They are clean and sober and don't smoke.... Good in school.... Not in trouble... I think we broke the chain with them, As both of our families are still in the game of drugs/booze and trouble with the law.... Killer... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tink1717 2 #48 December 12, 2004 If your experience is going to be anything like mine was/is, things will get worse before they get better. My first year was pretty much a fog, my second through fifth, I was an exposed nerve. After year six things started to get better in a hurry. My suggestion is to spend as much time with others in the program as possible. Even if they can't relate to jumping (and most can't / don't / won't), they can help in dealing with the noise. Who knows, you might be able to recruit a few of them to become jumpers as well.Skydivers don't knock on Death's door. They ring the bell and runaway... It really pisses him off. -The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!) AA #2069 ASA#33 POPS#8808 Swooo 1717 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #49 December 13, 2004 I got CnS at 27, things got a lot better from then on. Not easier just BETTERYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #50 December 13, 2004 QuoteI think we broke the chain with them, As both of our families are still in the game of drugs/booze and trouble with the law.... Killer... I hope that you are right. I really believe that alcoholism is a genetic trait or predisposition. My father and brother and myself ... all alcoholics. Just a while ago, while doing some genealogy type stuff I discovered that my great grandmother died of cirrhosis of the liver. I also learned that my grandparents used to drink and leave their kids on their own while they were in town drinking (they lived on a farm back in horse and buggy days). Nobody on my mother's side has or had a drinking problem. My oldest son is 28 and seems to be ok. My other sons are 5 and 7 so it's still too early to tell. I just hope that all 3 take after my Mom.-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
