rampant curiosity--how do you waste time?

You speak no doubt from personal experience?

Indeed.Hailing from a family of heroic drinkers, I early on had to choose: drink myself to perdition fast and hard, give it up entirely, or learn to drink within the limits of my health and socially acceptable function. I had family exemplars of the first two courses, but, sadly, none of the latter.I do not suffer from hangovers, so that physiological negative feedback was missing; I truly don't care what the world may say about my pleasures, so that social inhibition was inoperable as well. I plumped for a course which maximizes life-time intoxication, finding the sweet spot between restraint and excess. Of course, liver function tests showing enzymes outside normal parameters should never be ignored, nor should liver enlargement or hardening.Only an accident of birth can grace one with the stomach enzymes and liver efficacy to laugh at strong drink, but attention to methodological details can accomplish wonders: remember to eat (a common amateur oversight), fortify oneself with the vitamins and fluid alcohol depletes, avoid noiseome and stressful companions and settings (brawls are so déclassé), and never drink "too much" at one's own or one's spouse's office Christmas parties--unless everyone else does first, in which case it may be a matter of self-defense. Still, it's best to pass-out at home.Besides, proper management of intoxication methodologies is crucial to maintaining cognitive liberty. Otherwise the Puritans will lock you up.Approaching 55, with a 40-year history of enthusiastic drinking, I enjoy a sound liver and an iron stomach. Bacchus grant I have 40 more!

This nefarious habit has no doubt affected your teleological philosophy.

It has certainly spoiled my taste for pie in the sky.

Well, if they have Bordeaux in heaven . . .

Just as long as it isn't held up too long in Customs.

I hoist a pint (or more) with my pals maybe once every two weeks; I have hobbies that I pursue less frequently than that. Maybe RR's just really enthusiastic about beers, wines, and liquors.I would think a professional gormand like yourself would see a kindred spirit in that.

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I guess I understood his use of "hobby" to refer to the enthusiasm with which he pursued that evocation, not the frequency that he did so.

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I hoist a pint (or more) with my pals maybe once every two weeks; I have hobbies that I pursue less frequently than that. Maybe RR's just really enthusiastic about beers, wines, and liquors.

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I would think a professional gormand like yourself would see a kindred spirit in that.

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Well, maybe. When someone really loves wines or beers, usually they say "wine tasting" or "beer tasting" as a hobby, not "drinking"."Drinking" as a hobby implies "getting drunk", as in he doesn't particularly care about what he's drinking wrt flavor or quality.But it was a brief message. It's very possible I am misinterpreting it completely.

I, too, took robin's brief message as referring to serious drinking, not sip 'n spit wine tasting. I hope I was right.BTW, schraf, what's up with your quoting? I noticed the other day the weird doubling--first the partial quote without qs box, then the full quote inside the qs box.Er...not a nip of gin so early, I hope?

Monday through Thursday:M and W 8:30 pm--drink beer (several)Tu and TH--10:00 pm--drink beer (not much, sleepy)Friday afternoon and night--wine (Friday night is wine night) followed by beer (quite a bit)Saturday night--it varies, but some drinking of something will no doubt be done. When out somewhere, I sometimes drink Margaritas. I've been known to have a Martini or two.Sunday afternoon--a few beers.

Can we refer back to this, and then check the time of your PNTs to help us decide what to do with them?

Correlations are often misleading.

It might be a good idea. On a Friday night late . . .

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BTW, schraf, what's up with your quoting? I noticed the other day the weird doubling--first the partial quote without qs box, then the full quote inside the qs box.

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Speed kills....accuracy.

Have you ever gone for several months without drinking at all?