Today is June 3rd, 2026.
As of yesterday, I have been sober for 14 years now.
Longer than at any point in my life.
They say you are not a true alcoholic if you can’t remember your last drink.
God is good.
I also remembered that as of early March of this year, I have been blogging for 20 years.
That is a geolgic age in blogging. Literally millions of Blogs have come and gone in that time.
And THAT, is thanks to you guys for chipping in and helping me pay the outrageous hosting fees. Because of you I don’t have to worry about posts getting deleted by freaking GOOGLE because God Forbid, we might say something they don’t like or an occasional nipple might peek out from the page.
Dirty Bastards anyway.
Don’t ever think that I will ever forget your extreme generousity.
So take a bow yourselves and Thank You again from the bottom of my heart.
Congratulations on your milestone, friend.
Addictions are really hard to break.
Addictions are easy to break, I’ve given up smoking dozens of times before my last one many years ago. Just need a good reason to do so – keep up the fight.
Don’t forget to thank yourself for sticking to writing when you have a lot of other things to do but choose to research to keep the rest of us informed of events behind the scenes. As well as great entertainment – your blog has given me a lot of spontaneous LOLs. THANK YOU FOR THAT !!
My wife nagged me for years to quit smoking.
So I did.
Two years later, she divorced my ass.
From where I’m sitting, that makes it 2-0, me.
Behold the power of positive thinking. And yeah, I actually laughed.
Congratulations, Phil!
It truly is an exceptional achievement.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Good deal on putting the bottle aside!
I was a drunk.
The last blackout, I woke up in an empty bar with a cold cup of coffee in front of me. Gave up drinking on the street where I puked. Thirty years. Never missed it.
Good for you!
Bravo!!!! I like to think that all of “us” are utterly blessed pursuant to Divine Intervention. I’ll hit 41 years next month and can’t even begin to imagine where (or even IF) I would be had I not undertaken this life.
Congratulations! I do remember my last beer, May 1989.
One day at a time.
Bravo, Rob! LOL… I remember this year a newcomer referred to me as an OLD TIMER when I shared w him my Sobriety date in 1985
Talk about mixed emotions!
Sincere thanks, Phil, for providing this little corner of the internet for our playpen.
We like it here. Do be sure to let me/us know when the license or whatever it is runs dry and needs replenishment.
What he said, jump on and do a fund raiser we’re ready to chip in.
wes
wtdb
Thanks for hosting this hangout for so many years and congrats on sobriety.
Congratulations, Phil.
I appreciate this place immensely.
Congratulations on your 14 years. I’m a friend of Bill W’s too,and it has made all the difference in my life.
Good on ya, Phil. Both of these milestones are real achievements.
Great on you for being sober that long, the next 14 will be a piece of cake. 20 years for blogging and you haven’t kicked that habit. Maybe an intervention is in order for that insipidus addiction! Now that you have gotten me hooked, what 4 or 5 years? To think I came on to help you over a tough spot way back then and you’ve kept me graciously unemployed since. Thank you Phil for allowing me the privilege.
My congratulations on such a long stretch of sobriety. Have/had friends and family who were stuck in the bottle. Some made it out, others didn’t, so it’s always nice to see a good guy succeed in beating an addiction.
As an aside to that thought, I didnt realize until fairly recently that Joe Walsh had done a song about his battle with addiction titled “one day at a time”. It’s actually a pretty decent little tune, and has that touch of humor he is known for. I’ll give it a listen today in your honor.
Bravo! For shaking a bad habit and for being the host to this space on the internet.
Sober since Dec.1st 1990, quit smoking a year later. My decision let me have the privilege of living an adventurous life on the high seas. It didn’t make me filthy rich but I wouldn’t trade those memories for anything. I’ve enjoyed your blog for years thanks to world wide internet.
Phil, Congrats – 14 years is a long time, and a gift for which you’ve shared that you are grateful. A grateful drunk won’t drink. Last drink Sept. 1976, a day at a time. If we hadn’t put a plug in the jug, we’d both be pushing up daisies. Thank God, and God bless you.
Good onya brother.2-1/2 for me. Quit on my own so on rare special occasion I will imbibe a tiny bit. Twernt easy as you know.heres to many more.
Congrats, Phil!
I gave up chasing that first buzz 36 years ago.
Feels good being a feisty “elderly male” (Gods Below, some description!)…
Might explain WHY I’m an older feisty, grumpy fucker.
I salute you, sir.