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Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop

January 10, 2012

Clearly not much to do with recovery but a very amusing vid with only 300 views on youtube – really out there. I just wondered how many hits I would get with a post titled Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-bop-bop – I will let you know.

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Toolbox Additions

January 8, 2012

Going through almost five years worth of posts is going to take some time – but it’s cool to reread them.  Starting from the beginnings of the site and working my way forward,  I will try to add 5 to 6 posts to the “Sober Toolbox” tab at the top each week.  This week’s additions are: [...]

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Stephen King’s Letter To Teen King – More Than Five Words

January 6, 2012

What would you say to your teenage self?  That’s the concept behind Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self.  A variety of contributors — from J.K. Rowling (who also wrote the foreword) to James Franco to Garth Brooks— scribbled advice and encouragement to the kids they once were. Do you think he might have [...]

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Sober Tools #1 – Tools Sober

January 3, 2012

To start the new year off we are introducing a new feature to the site, one that begins today and will morph throughout the year into a helpful collection of  tips on how to get and stay sober.  We have always posted things that we are adding to our personal toolboxes of recovery, but have not done a good job of [...]

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Happy New Year !!!

December 30, 2011

< For the last post of the year I bring you something a little more upbeat.  A song I found on Youtube entitled “What Are Doing New Year’s Eve?”  Well, my day will begin with about 6 or 7 hours of work at the store doing our last inventory of  the year …yeah! – but [...]

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Tune Into Happiness

December 28, 2011

I am so glad Christmas is over.  Yes, I know there is a reason for the season, but for a guy that’s never been married and no kids, it’s a great time to be sorry for yourself.  This year was no different.  Tons of get togethers with the friends you only see this time of the year, letting you know [...]

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Graphic Blandishment Christmas Message

December 25, 2011

Charlie Brown wasn’t an alcoholic.  But, A Charlie Brown Christmas has the best message of them all when put into a recovery context.  While we may think the world is a cynical and harsh place and that everything we do even with good intentions ends in disaster; there is hope.  With the help and love of friends, even [...]

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Drink Drive Office Party

December 23, 2011

Studies show that drinking increases almost 27% between Thanksgiving and the 2nd of January and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that two to three times more people are killed by drunk drivers during this period of time than at any other point in the year. This public information film on the dangers of [...]

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Butt Blow Deadlier Than Butt-Chugging

December 21, 2011

Possibly the saddest drug related story i’ve seen in days (let’s be real), the smoking gun reports of  an arrestee’s overdose - resulting from the ingestion of an once of cocaine that moments earlier had been up his beloved brother and partner in crime’s buttocks.  Gives a new meaning to crack kills. Deangelo Mitchell, 23, and his brother Wayne, 20, were [...]

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Famous Alcoholics: Christopher Hitchens Smote Down By The Gods

December 18, 2011

Arguably the most famous modern day agnostic, certainly the most famous alcoholic writer agnostic, Christopher Hitchens’ demons finally did him in; much to the amusement of higher powers around the universe.  If there is a divine order to things, Hitchens is most certainly surprised.  Hopefully it’s not one of the more puritanical theologies, for then he will be [...]

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