Alcohol is Insidious

hmm, i'm going to ramble. first, i have not been drinking. a good friend of mine has. he's been doing so for a good six or seven years now. only within the last two or so has the nightly binge drinking seemed to have taken its toll on his daily personality. i really hope he stops. at least he's still with it enough to have given me the title of this post. he couldn't have been more exact when describing alcohol as insidious.

then, i have a new friend. we seem to have formed together because of our avoidance of alcohol. it's mostly his doing; he has most of the energy. but i'm willing to learn. the way he acts reminds me of how i used to be and i'm seeing major benefits as well as seeing parts of him in me now.

but now about neither here nor there. first, let me fidget around a moment whilst thinking something up to ramble about. isn't it some kind of irony. oh, well, now it isn't, i'm doing it. therefore change gears and read on. or don't, as most would have it. but anyway, i just got through working nine straight days and am due for a vacation. not just due, i have been granted one, date pending. i could go to oregon, see what the fuss is about. hm, and i wasn't even thinking about nathan, isn't he ending up there at some point? others have gone there recently, and as for myself, my aunt was recently told by my young cousin that i was going there with some friends to live. so, unless i can avoid that fate...

yes, one T-Smooth, another Web/Webb, and a Josh Illig - uh, Schmillig, are there and more could follow. steve's always wanted to ditch his high-school history teaching job for the call of the truck driver, somewhere out west. we might start our own 'little ebensburg.' i could handle something like that. but not as a truck driver; there'd be too much i'd have to shift around. yep.

*publishes post*