Welcome

Today is December Twelfth Two Thousand Oh Nine and this is the first post of my blog. Not much to look at or read I know but I have to start somewhere. I chose the Tic-Tac blog template because I don't mind Tic-Tacs and it looked fairly easy to read.

This is totally self serving blog about me and my life. I tend to be one of those people who write really long email messages to you that you always skip over or delete so this will be a place for me to write whatever the fuck I want to write about. Yes, this blog will have profanity once in awhile, mostly my reporting of insults or swears I hear about like fucktard.

About me: I was born on September Eleventh Nineteen Sixty Nine at Beverly Hospital. I wasn't much to look at but my brother still insisted on stacking logs over my crib in order to hide my existence from the world. I guess he thought he knew something that my parents didn't, it doesn't surprise me as he is a pretty smart guy.

I am going to write on a variety of topics: recovery, women, family, jobs, music, exercise, food, friendships, weird shit, art, sneakers, grateful not dead, gatorade, dogs, travel, things I miss, and anything else that crosses my mind.

I'm a recovering alcoholic and drug addict who for the last ten months has been moderately successful in keeping away from the stuff that almost ruined my life and I have been doing a bunch of thinking during this time. Its astounding how much more I can think about stuff when I'm not piss drunk or high on chemicals, which was an EVERYDAY occurrence for me during the last 5 years. This is why I am grateful not dead and hence the title of this blog. I also like the Grateful Dead so any recovery phrase that has the words "Grateful" and "Dead" is damn catchy to me.