That is what traveling for work coupled with monthly parking will do to you. I am 28 posts behind in my blog reading, thanks to being at a client for a couple of days, and I got here at 10...well, I needed to sleep cause my flight was late and I needed to exercise this morning. Anyway, whatever productivity at work I thought I regained by loading everyone into google reader, I have apparently lost as a result of the parking thing. Ah well. Keeping up on reading and writing blog posts is like a full time job. How do people do this? Especially when you have a life - in real life - which I don't, and I still can't keep up. I haven't been able to post either. Let's just say it is due to technical difficulties. I did post a rant about being stuck on a plane last night - but have since taken it down. I just needed to vent. Anyway, I believe I have resolved the technical difficultly, but we will see.
On a sad note - a friend from the program back at home passed away last night. In the almost two years that I've been sober (woohoo - only 1 week until my anniversary) - about 15 people have died back at home in the program - mostly overdose and suicide. I knew almost all of them. This is just the sad reality. Maybe this number is higher than average - but a lot of people die from alcoholism. Even if you end up taking your own life, it is alcoholism that kills you. This one wasn't either suicide or overdose, but is just as sad and unexpected. I am grateful to be alive and grateful to be sober and tremendously grateful to Alcoholics Anonymous. I really believe that if it weren't for this program, I might have, at some point, been unable to keep going. I really want to go to a meeting. I wish I could be there - at home - with the people I got sober with all of whom know the guy who died last night. I sat at tables with him every day for all those months in the very beginning before I moved. He never could get it - he kept going back out and coming back in and going back out and coming back in. But at least he never gave up.
2 comments:
Google Reader certainly makes everything easier, but I often wonder how people do it. I just assume that everybody is better than I am, a better writer, a better typist, a better organizer. Y'know all those things that make me feel totally inadequate.
I'm sorry to read about the lost of your friend and other member's of your program. All the more to be proud of yourself.
Sad news. Glad you are no longer stuck on that boiling airplane. Will say a prayer for your friend.
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