Current Events > Drinking Topic 150: Canada - United States border.

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Hoping to get into the tequila tomorrow. Also getting around to updating those discord colors that Mabus and someone else wanted.

bsp77 posted...

It's a Marzen from Toppling Goliath. An Iowa brewery typically known for Hazy IPAs and Pale Ales.

Marzens are the old school Oktoberfests that most people outside of Germany know, which are amber. The modern Munich festival Oktoberfest is a Festbier, which are golden.

Gotcha. Consider me extra jelly then, I could go for a Marzen right now.

Stewman_Magoo posted...

Gotcha. Consider me extra jelly then, I could go for a Marzen right now.

Well, I moved on to the Bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout.

This will be it for the night though. Gf is home and will want to watch sitcoms in bed soon. She keeps me from being a full blown alcoholic.

bsp77 posted...

Well, I moved on to the Bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout.

This will be it for the night though. Gf is home and will want to watch sitcoms in bed soon. She keeps me from being a full blown alcoholic.

Mine is helping me with my addiction as well

Smackems posted...

Mine is helping me with my addiction as well

That's great. How long ya been dating now?

bsp77 posted...

That's great. How long ya been dating now?

3 weeks or so

Welcome back Smack attack

MabusIncarnate posted...

Welcome back Smack attack

Agreed!

Smackems posted...

3 weeks or so

I hope it goes well.

I, uh, just ordered an engagement ring... now I'm scared

@smackems Maybe you should just stick to these topics for a while. Get your bearings again. lol

bsp77 posted...

I, uh, just ordered an engagement ring... now I'm scared

Are you scared or just nervous about a major life change?

Good luck bsp, I'd post the obligatory babynames.com tag, but I think I remember saying you were snipped in other threads.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Are you scared or just nervous about a major life change?

Just the life change, as part of me still wants to be a player. I am 100% sure she will say yes.

Stewman_Magoo posted...

Good luck bsp, I'd post the obligatory babynames.com tag, but I think I remember saying you were snipped in other threads.

Yeah, I am snipped AND already have 4 daughters from back in the day when I was previously married.

bsp77 posted...

Just the life change, as part of me still wants to be a player. I am 100% sure she will say yes.

Yeah, I am snipped AND already have 4 daughters from back in the day when I was previously married.

Dang dude four kids!!?? How do you... do anything!? I have two (5 and 3) and I love them to death, but they keep me on my toes every hour they're awake.

Stewman_Magoo posted...

Dang dude four kids!!?? How do you... do anything!? I have two (5 and 3) and I love them to death, but they keep me on my toes every hour they're awake.

Well, I am divorced, so I don't have them all the time. I actually have them 33% of the time. I think the younger two like my gf more than they like me :)

bsp77 posted...

Just the life change, as part of me still wants to be a player. I am 100% sure she will say yes.

Yeah I was in a major panic during my whole marriage process. Within 2 1/2 weeks, my wife and I planned a wedding with no help, lost my job, we both moved nearly 3 hours from home(me moving away from the only small country town I've ever lived in), and starting a new job. All that change to someone who doesn't like change...think it aged me a couple years.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Yeah I was in a major panic during my whole marriage process. Within 2 1/2 weeks, my wife and I planned a wedding with no help, lost my job, we both moved nearly 3 hours from home(me moving away from the only small country town I've ever lived in), and starting a new job. All that change to someone who doesn't like change...think it aged me a couple years.

Well, that just sounds ridiculously stressful!

Congrats on the potential engagement man!

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Yeah I was in a major panic during my whole marriage process. Within 2 1/2 weeks, my wife and I planned a wedding with no help, lost my job, we both moved nearly 3 hours from home(me moving away from the only small country town I've ever lived in), and starting a new job. All that change to someone who doesn't like change...think it aged me a couple years.

Jesus dude. I'm glad it all worked out for you in the end lol

MabusIncarnate posted...

Congrats on the potential engagement man!

Thanks!

bsp77 posted...

Well, that just sounds ridiculously stressful!

AirFresh posted...

Jesus dude. I'm glad it all worked out for you in the end lol

Yeah it was very rough. Basically my first IT job was letting me go because of politics but gave me a two month notice. Figured out within that time that I wouldn't be able to find another IT job in that area cause there just weren't any. I started applying in two nearby cities. I got a job and would have to move. We also didn't want to do long distance and she didn't want to live together without being married cause her family would bitch. Thankfully we had already decided we were probably going to get married 8 months from then anyway so we just moved it up. It was very interesting telling all the family that 1. we were engaged and 2. the wedding was in 2 1/2 weeks.

Oh and when I say we planned with nearly no help, I mean we ordered all the decorations from Amazon, put them up in the venue, we made the flower arrangements, and my wife catered the wedding(cake and all) for 50 people.

I'm still not sure how we pulled it off.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

@smackems Maybe you should just stick to these topics for a while. Get your bearings again. lol

Are you scared or just nervous about a major life change?

I mostly stick to the discord. I ain't worried bout here

Awwwww shit my second favorite time of the year in this city is upon us!

Last year, all the brewers in the city got together and brewed a beer out of their favorite cereal. They're doing it again this year, I hope I can participate this year!

Why do kids love the taste of cinnamon toast blonde lager?

Because it has cinnamon and sugar all over every gulp!

Cinnamon Smacks

Wasn't sugar smacks a cereal at some point?

Or am I just remembering a cereal from some kinda sitcom?

Stewman_Magoo posted...

Wasn't sugar smacks a cereal at some point?

Or am I just remembering a cereal from some kinda sitcom?

Dude I forgot this existed but yes. Iirc it had a frog mascot.

CanuckCowboy posted...

Dude I forgot this existed but yes. Iirc it had a frog mascot.

It's what gunpla calls me here

My gf has been here 4 nights in a row. She lives an hour and a half away

I've been going through some serious shit the last week and her just being there for me has knocked her up quite a few points

@Johnny_Nutcase has visited me 0

Smackems posted...

It's what gunpla calls me here

My gf has been here 4 nights in a row. She lives an hour and a half away

I've been going through some serious shit the last week and her just being there for me has knocked her up quite a few points

@Johnny_Nutcase has visited me 0

That's awesome. Sounds like things are going well with her.

Stewman_Magoo posted...

That's awesome. Sounds like things are going well with her.

But Johnny

Smackems posted...

her just being there for me has knocked her up quite a few points

Is she going to be knocked up in other ways too?

WaterLink posted...

Is she going to be knocked up in other ways too?

Maybe. Be aight

Babynames.com

I don't have enough responsibility so bring it

Smackems posted...

It's what gunpla calls me here

My gf has been here 4 nights in a row. She lives an hour and a half away

I've been going through some serious shit the last week and her just being there for me has knocked her up quite a few points

@Johnny_Nutcase has visited me 0

You knew I was a dick the day you met me.

He was a SOUR BOY the day that he met me

Hey. What are ya... Looking at

He was a happy boy the day that he left me

The day that he left me

The day that he left me

Johnny was a schoolboy when he heard his first Beatle song,
'Love me do,' I think it was. From there it didn't take him long.
Got himself a guitar, used to play every night,
Now he's in a rock 'n' roll outfit,

And everything's all right, don't you know?

Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long, cold rest
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye
Eighty years, with luck, or even less

Look Johnny, iffin you don't act right I'm gonna

Smackems posted...

Look Johnny, iffin you don't act right I'm gonna

But you didn't hear how it ended buddy ol pal

Johnny died one night, died in his bed, Bottle of whiskey,
sleeping tablets by his head. Johnny's life passed him by like a
warm summer day, If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play

Went to work this morning for 3 hours. Came back, took my dad to the oncologist for a blood draw. They had to give him an IV of Saline to rehydrate him. Had my work phone with me. walked a few people through shit without my laptop to help while im out. Had to help my dad outta the wheel chair and into the car because of his weakness he's getting now. Got him home. Back to work, make him dinner.

This might be how it is for a while. I got a positive attitude about it and we laughed at all the super close lightning strikes on the way home on the Interstate.

Now he's good and i'm poundin the beer in me. Do it all again tomorrow. I got this.

Dad may as well get blasted too.
Seems like it's end-stage now, so fuck it and get drunk. It's not like he's gotta worry about his health.

Smackems posted...

I don't have enough responsibility

does not compute >_>

Questionmarktarius posted...

Dad may as well get blasted too.
Seems like it's end-stage now, so fuck it and get drunk. It's not like he's gotta worry about his health.

I always thought the same thing but he can still get up and walk short distances. I don't want him doin that wasted. Nothing good comin outta that.

FigureOfSpeech posted...

does not compute >_>

Twas sarcasm. I have waaaaaaay too god damn much responsibility lol

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

I always thought the same thing but he can still get up and walk short distances. I don't want him doin that wasted. Nothing good comin outta that.

Maybe if you were there with him to wait on him he could. But he'd have to understand no walking around without supervision

Smackems posted...

Twas sarcasm. I have waaaaaaay too god damn much responsibility lol

I see. *fistbump*

On an unrelated note, and interesting development occurred when I got back from the liquor store tonight... and by interesting, I mean interesting to anyone who has been posting pics of and/or interested in posted pics of moths and other bugs/buglike critters lately...

On my driveway, I discovered a literal shit-zone from a large caterpillar. It would be either a Luna, Polyphemus or Cecropia moth (all 3 are native here and are the big ones in this area and all are known to feed on Birch). There is a birch tree in the neighbors' yard that is right next to the fence bordering my yard, so a lot of branches hang over. This confirms at least one large caterpillar that I could potentially find and raise, which is something I fucking love to do. The only problem though... is that the shit-zone is in a specific location on the driveway where the lowest overhanding branches are like 20-30 feet up, so either I am shit out of luck, the caterpillar will have to go to lower branches for me to get to it, which would be all coincidental and luck-based... or I would have to ask my landlord if he has a ladder that goes that high and if I could borrow it and he could steady it for me as I go up... which would be a pretty fucking awkward conversation at least at first, like "hey man you got a ladder that goes up 20-30 and if so could you help me get up into this tree even though it's in the neighbors' yard? I'm a caterpillar enthusiast and there's a big one up there, which I know because all these little things here littering our driveway are caterpillar shit-turds so it's somewhere directly above us right now..."

Smackems posted...

Maybe if you were there with him to wait on him he could. But he'd have to understand no walking around without supervision

Obviously a joke but I read it at first and got furious.

So I got diagnosed with depression yesterday. I knew I had it, I've known since I was a teenager (32 now), just never did anything about it in that toxic masculinity sort of way.

Got a psychologist lined up, and started on Zoloft, diazepam and propranolol.

I've always been able to manage it and my anxiety pretty well. Sometimes the anxiety physical symptoms flared up and I'd go get a diazepam script to just deal with them and they'd go back to normal after a couple weeks, but the last few weeks have been really bad and the mental symptoms are the worst they've ever been. So yeah, decided to actually do something about it.

Not sure what caused it, I don't think I had any trauma that would cause it, although I don't really remember my childhood much, so I've got no doubt that it was probably my parents in some way (not that they would've ever MEANT it, they were never abusive at all), but I honestly have no idea, I need a psychologist to drag it out of me, no doubt. The doctor after 20min of listening to me actually open up (which turned into a bit of a rambling word vomit, kind of like this post) was just like O_O and said it'll be 2 years psychology, 6 months medication MINIMUM.

So, yeah. Nothing about me has changed, it's how I've always been, just actually gonna do something about it, or try.

So I'm not allowed to drink (much) or do anything else "fun".

/blogfaqs

That sucks. I think if they made me stop drinking I would develop depression so they would prescribe a gallon a rum daily.

I mean, I "can" drink, but drinking on zoloft and valium fucks you up even more, and with a baby in the house that's not a good idea