{"id":13680,"date":"2016-01-24T19:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T00:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:58:21","slug":"for-the-getaway-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/01\/24\/for-the-getaway-bag.html","title":{"rendered":"For the getaway bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tsomething new to add to the getaway bag: plastic forks and spoons. thought of that a long time ago but never did it. A lightweight but handy thing to have at the ready.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling one shade closer to normal for not drinking. I mean it&#8217; only been a couple of days and I managed to get through the nigh without taking another anxiety pill, but it was rough. Felt like I was experiencing every freakin&#8217; minute of trying to sleep. Maybe shoulda taken a \u00bd a pill but I don&#8217;t like pills.<\/p>\n<p>Guess it will be a while before things get really back to normal. Snow mounds will linger for months in some places. I remember black mountains of snow in the Costco parking lot well into May one year.<\/p>\n<p>Looked out the window and saw small armies of people shoveling snow. I don&#8217;t pay attention much in years past but it really seemed like way more people than I&#8217;ve seen in years past. People were grousing among themselves about people shoveling snow into their yards or onto their space. I remember when I had a car and parked it in a driveway. There was a balcony over the driveway. It filled up with snow which the asshole resident dumped right onto my car. I was annoyed but you know, I&#8217;d probably do the same thing. I mean what else do you do? Maybe dump it to one side or the other but that would either have blocked the door to the building or &#8230; well I don&#8217;t remember what dumping it to the other side would have done, but I didn&#8217;t begrudge the asshole for dumping their snow on my car.<\/p>\n<p>Just happened to spot a message board forum from a few years ago where folks are talking about going without booze for a while. Totally random to my current situation. Dude says he goes for long walks in the woods to burn the nervous energy. Wish I could do that. Hard to walk far at all now with the snow, but I made it to the ghetto coffee shop. The guy also said that drinking ruined two days: the day he drank and the day after. I&#8217;m like dude, how much do you drink? Then he ended his discussion cryptically, saying he hadn&#8217;t had a drink\u00a0 in 2 years because something fucked up happened to make this occur. He didn&#8217;t say what that fucked up thing was, but earlier he said he&#8217;d been to inpatient detox a number of time and countless group meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Watched an entire football game for the first time all season, I think. Wait that&#8217;s not true, but it&#8217;s the first time I watched a full game without conversation and such taking my attention away. Not that I am complaining about the company and conversation that has accompanied a good many NFL games this year, just remarking that I haven&#8217;t been too connected to the games so far. Happy to see Peyton Manning win, and Tom Brady lose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>something new to add to the getaway bag: plastic forks and spoons. thought of that a long time ago but never did it. A lightweight but handy thing to have at the ready. Feeling one shade closer to normal for not drinking. I mean it&#8217; only been a couple of days and I managed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3yE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31300,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions\/31300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}