March 11, 2010
AA (Al’s Anthology) Waiting Room Reading Material
While i finish up my interview with a Silken Butterfly from Shutter Island as well as Booze Revooze for An Education, Nine and A Single Man, please stop by a brother’s blog…
Jabba Da Butt is a patron here at The Bar None and is doing his best (and better than i ever could) to quit drinking for a spell. Would you do a Tender Bartender a favor and stop by his blog and give him some love and encouragement? He’s at: http://jabbadabutt.wordpress.com/
Y’all are the best,
Al K Hall
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About Al K Hall
Like a battered drinker or a punch drunk boxer, i am here for another round.
For those of you who don’t know me, i’m a semi-professional writer on the rocks and a non-practicing alcoholic (if after 30 years of practicing, you still can't do something well, it's best to just give it up). For those of you who do know me, thanks for stopping by anyway and where’s the ten bucks you owe me?
Welcome to my Bar None. A hole in the wall where we can hang out and trade the kind of stories you swap only when you’ve had one too many and either can’t find your way home or are afraid to. Hell, it’s cheaper than therapy and plus the pictures are prettier. Here we’ll crack open bottles and jokes and ‘last call’ are the only dirty words you’ll never hear.
Pull up a stool and make yourselves at home.
http://about.me/AlKHall
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March 12th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Did it. It’s a great blog and I’m glad he’s writing it. I am glad for all the commenters here. It is a lot more fun with other people writing more, too.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
i saw what you commented, my Angel, and i GOT it.
i thank you for visiting the blogs as sincere as JabbaDaButts and for supporting this blog by doing it.
See you later tonight,
Al K Hall
March 12th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Thanks Al and Ms D, not that I wite the blog to get groupies or anything, but I appreciate the acknowledgement.
Cheers.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Babe,
There are groupies!? Where!?
Thanks for patronizing me,
Al K Hall
March 13th, 2010 at 2:04 am
I failed …….Friday night’s the hardest.
March 13th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
i don’t know if it makes you feel any better but i failed miserably last night as well. i drank a couple bottles of wine and four beers and went to the angry place and got in a fight with Miss Demeanor and ended up sleeping on the sofa. i also posted an angry blog that i took down right after. Anyway, the ambiance here in Yeman is fairly tense as well, so i share your pain.
Al K Hall
March 15th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
It certainly doesn’t make me feel any better…..but it is good to not be alone in the screw up pack. We need to pick ourselves right back up and try again.
March 15th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
“We need to pick ourselves right back up and try again.”
Exactly. And it is not like drinking is the only way to screw up nor that drinkers are the only ones who do, either. Dust off, both of you & know that while it is not okay, it is also *very* okay. I hope that makes sense. It’s just walking that thin line of non-condemnation with non-condoning.
Love to you both. Keep trying. Each time you mess up is also a lesson learned in how not to the next time. It’s the best anyone can do to continue to learn in a process of how to manage life better, eh?
March 15th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
What a woman…
See why i’m marrying her?
Thanks for being here, my Love,
Al
March 16th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
You bet.
I have one more thing to say about it, too — it is because you DO keep trying that it is possible for me to be here and be loving you. Your efforts to handle this in your life are not for naught. I see that it is a process and you are trying and learning to see what works best, and you have made great strides in self-understanding. So while it is not always easy to have patience, at the same time, I do try to hold on to patience, knowing you are doing the work of at least trying to figure it out. If things worsened a lot or if you quit trying, then I might have to re-think stuff, but the facts are that you are getting better and you are still making efforts. So things are working. Just so you know.
Be patient with yourself, too, okay? That doesn’t mean be lazy, lol, but yeah, be patient.
XOXO
Miss D
March 18th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Here i am…being patient and learning as i go along,
Al K Hall
March 15th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
You’re definitely not alone. i’ve started picking myself up today (3 days sober) so we’ll just have to hang in there because it’s gonna get better day by day.
Thanks for patronizing me,
Al K Hall