Posted by Mark H. on December 30, 2004, at 19:57:57
In reply to I'm a Worm, posted by verne on December 30, 2004, at 18:58:12
Hi Verne,
I'm still irrepressibly fond of you, even if you've been on a bender for the past two months. Is it time to quit yet? I really miss drinking sometimes, even after 23 years of not.
There's nothing quite like waking up and realizing that I've tape-recorded a telephone conversation I don't remember having with someone I had a crush on in the sixth grade. And listening to myself repeat myself and forget what the person just said. At 3:00 a.m. It seemed completely appropriate and vaguely urgent at the time to tell her how genuinely fond of her I was.
> Can I get blocked for beating up on myself?
Sure you can! (But please don't.) All you have to do is call yourself something off-color without using asterisks.
> I figure the adventure has cost about $500 in beer, $150 in internet detective help, and about $1.95 in misc.Of course I'm dying to know about the buck-ninety-five, but don't feel pressured to tell me. Which online detective help do you like? I've had pretty good luck locating formerly lost friends with Ameridex. It's getting the "please don't ever attempt to contact me again" letter with no return address that kind of takes the glow off the process for me.
By the way, that's a lot of beer, Verne -- do you have an aversion to bourbon?
Most importantly, did you find the old girlfriend?
No need to hide under the covers on our account. We're all more-or-less in the same boat, sooner or later, then, now or sometime in the future.
You can usually tell when I'm headed over the edge when I start playing Joni Mitchell CDs, especially "Blue," over and over again.
With kind regards,
Mark H.
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