DallasHorn26

My grandpa in Korea.

No one is going to shun you for going. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. A lot of us have had periods of time where we could stay sober, just some longer than others. If you’re feeling anxious or dare I say restless, irritable or discontent, then relief may come through the program. There is a guy in my home group now that is just starting the steps who celebrated his two year birthday this week. You’ll find a home in AA just go to some meetings and I’m certain you’ll find some one to relate too. If you’re serious about the growth and working the steps, then I don’t see it as wasting anyones time. There is always room for one more in our herd.

I was a little young for Cheers in it's run, but have been watching in my down time . So many good moments and one-liners. Just finished the Cliff on Jeopardy episode referenced earlier in the thread. "Who are three people who've never been in my kitchen?"

Meet Cash. We found him at a shelter a few weeks ago. He’s around 4 and came completely house broken, knows commands, and is just completely laid back. He’a still warming up to tue new surroundings, but so far so good.

I don't know what I would do without my network of sober friends now, or my sponsor. I feel like these guys are the first real friends I've ever had and they're not afraid to give me hard truths when I need them. There is so much more to this thing than sitting in a meeting for an hour at a time sipping Folgers. We were talking to a guy the other night before the meeting who was about 60 days in, fresh out of treatment. He said he was going through a divorce, unemployed and living off the money form selling this house. Said none of those things were a result of his alcoholism... When asked if he had a sponsor, "I'm not sure that I need one." One of the more outspoken guys in my group just looked at him and said, "well man, you're probably gonna drink again".

Does anyone have any connections in the Midland/Odessa area.? An old running buddy of my Dad's called me yesterday and said he was desperate and was going to his first meeting Friday in Midland. He knew I was in the program and wanted to talk to a familiar face. No one in my sponsor ship circle has any connections there, so hoping one of you may know someone I can connect him with in person. I'm going to stay in touch with him too.

I can't tell you what to do, but I can speak from my experience. I spent years chasing alternate solutions in medicine, therapy, counseling, reading, exercise. At the end of the day, I still continued to get drunk and wreck my life and those around me. I made every excuse in the book as to why I drank the way I did and looked for every reason to justify my drinking. I blamed my situation on everyone and everything around me. Turns out, I'm basically a selfish prick who didn't respond well when the world around me didn't meet my expectations and then I drank because I drank. I had periods of sobriety, but I was miserable. Being sober wasn't enough. Drinking had been my solution, not my problem. When I came into AA, I saw people that were happy, seemed to have it together and were sober. Surely these guys didn't drink the way I did and cause the hell I caused. But sure enough, as I listened to them and shared my experience, they matched me story for story and at times made my drinking seem amateur. At the beginning, I was told if you want we have, then go where we go and do what we do. Lo and behold, that has worked! I learned out to get out of my own way and stop making excuses. It was about getting out of my comfort zone and doing those things I didn't want to do or felt uncomfortable doing like speaking in front of a group, spending several nights a week going to meetings, picking up the phone and calling someone to see how they're doing. Now those things bring me joy. I used to show up to the meeting right on time, slip in and slip out,. Now, I show up to the meeting early, make coffee, take out the trash, pick up cigarette butts if needed and I do it with a smile on my face.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/ray-jackson-prison-drug-money-laundering $500 a month?? This guys should have taken some lessons from Saul.

What makes it worse, is they don't start paying the driver until the passenger is in the car. There usually isn't much incentive for a driver to go pick someone up that's 20 minutes away unless they know it's going a decent distance.

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I rewatched S1E1 yesterday and in the opening sequence the same color effect happens when he pops the VCR tape in of his old commercials.

SIAP, but I keep thinking what else could we explore in this world. After a re-watch of breaking bad, I think an Early Gus backstory would be interesting. The cartel guys respected him in the beginning of their business dealings and it was stated several times he was only kept alive by the cartel because they knew who he was. The DEA and mike could find no trace of Fring prior to him arriving in Mexico in the late 80s. Id find it interesting to see this played out whether in a short series or a movie.

In the episode "Better Call Saul" in season 2, one of their dealers got busted. Jesse said they needed a "criminal lawyer" and that Saul was the guy to get them off the hook. The events depicted in last night's episode (Walt and Jesse kidnaping Saul) took place. Saul helped their dealer walk free and set up another guy as Heisenberg. The relationship continued with Saul offering to help launder money and introduce Walt to Gus.

I'm sure Saul helped influence Walt, but by the time he met Saul, Walt had already killed a couple of guys, blown up Tuco's place, not to mention having Jessee "Handle It" with the tweakers who robbed their dealer.

I just finished a re-watch of BB and it was left with Walt giving Skyler the lottery ticket with the GPS coordinates to where Hank and his partner were buried. He told her to use that to cut a deal.

I thought it was a good episode. Dumb tech question, but how did they have an iPod? I know it’s fictional, but first iPod didn’t come out til early 00s. I guess other tech advances faster too.

I use less than 1k a month. My two year contract is expiring end of June that was 11.1. I don’t see any options to go below .15 unless I go over 36 months. Not really willing to do that at this point.

For a brief moment I thought it was her portraying the mother. The actress playing younger Kim did great as well. I thought she did a good job of matching Seahorn’s speech cadence/pattern.

The granddaughter was in BB quite a bit of memory serves.

Thank you sir. It’s a good boat to be in. You’re lifeboat reference makes me think of this talk of heard before. Listen to his invisible bot analogy starting at 51 mins in or so.

Haha. None taken my friend. I had the same worries about myself for quite a while.

Joining the 1 year club today and am just in awe that it’s happened. The obsession has left me. There was a time when going more than a few days without the obsession kicking in was a struggle. But today isn’t about me, it’s a testament to what my higher power is capable of so long as I surrender and let him run the show, not me. I’m grateful to be here, and more than anything grateful to live another day.

Me too. If I knew whereabouts, I’d make an anonymous call, but the info I’m getting is also hearsay. I know others have tried before and nothing came of it.

My sister (no pics). My parents allowed her to drop out of school and get married at 16. She then left her husband who worked an oilfield job for a crack dealer. She would sneak the crack dealer over while her husband was home and he would hide under their trailer house. They eventually ran off to a crack motel together where she was busted in a major federal trafficking case at the age of 18. Since her 3 1/2 year stint in the federal pen about ten years ago, shes upgraded to a meth head about twice her age and has a son with him. Im pretty sure he’s never held a job for more than two weeks and she never has. They are squatting in a house with no electricity or running water. They dumpster dive and steal for food/money. Last I heard, the kid hasn’t been in school in a year because they’re concerned about CPS involvement. Meth head also had a partial foot amputation due to infections and recently had a below knee amputation on his other leg.