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To: Gauguin who wrote (17639)	2/12/1999 7:49:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Gauguin; RE > Can you slip a life preserver over someone who struggles? In my younger days taht I could, and it was one of the few things I was really good at. Nowadays I'm lucky if I can swim. But I use to be like a fish in the ocean. However I have the feeling that may not be the type of life preserver you mean. ------------------------ About the beer; that's an uncanny insight on your part, as my love for beer was extraordinary. I still know the best brand of beer that was ever made in the modern world, "Balboa" but you have to go to Panama to get it. Coors made the most effective beer TV commercial ever made, yet their beer wasn't all taht great, the commercial was better, in fact it was the best on TV, I could watch the commercial and taste it. <G> ---------- I reckon I have in my life drank enough beer to float just just about every boat I ever was on, and I doubt you will find a better expert on beer than I am, there is or was likely a few just as good, but none better. But something went wrong and I still don't know what it was, and finally I said , "Jim the cart is in the ditch, don't worry about how it got there get the dam thing outa the ditch" and I found a few friends that showed me how to do taht. --------------------- One time after a car accident I happened on and stopped at, I was called on to give a statement. ( I gave CPR to the driver but he died anyway ) They had noticed some empty beer cans in the back floor, with out thinking I volunteered "HE Wasn't DRINKING" , it was at the police Station and the Chief and I knew one another. He said "how do you know he wasn't drinking," I said "well I didn't smell any Chief and I gave him CPR," he just looked at me with a sort blank how can I accept that type look, So I added "Chief you know me , and I can still smell the beer in the back cooler of the 7-11 when I drive by one." It was about 9 months after I first quit. I was just going to quit for 1 yr to be damm sure I could, Well when that 1 came around , I said I'll push it to 2, after that I pushed it to 3, then when 3 showed I up I said this staying sober shit aint all that good as these people cracked it up to be, but I'll push it to 5, if it don't get better by then I'm sure a Balboa will fix that. Well after 5 yrs came around I stop with that game and just said to hell with it, I never did want "one" beer, shit if I can't get drunk what's the use of drinking one. I Guess it's all up the cookie cutter you got cut from ? Also I guess maybe there is something that I might say for being able to remember the very last beer I drank it's been almost 18 yrs now and I still remember that very last can of beer, <G> even exactly where I discarded it, and by golly there was at least a 3rd of that beer that went undrunk. ( Lone Star ) Considering how many times before that I couldn't remember the last beer the night before, and sometimes I couldn't even remember were I was the night before, I guess that last beer cast some sort of spell over me, and I don't want it to lose it's meaning. <G> Now I have some other reasons that I feel I shouldn't post on a public thread, about why I don't drink beer any more. I'll risk saying I became another type of expert, but in that respect I know there are plenty who have me beat. Ya I think I would enjoy a day with Bill Moyers. ----------------- Re it makes me want to get on a pier, and into conversation, so one can listen and ask. Gesture and point. (What I think of as "Italian" conversation.) Yes this writing stuff and me not being skilled enough to get the "inflections" into to it makes me shudder at most of my own posts after they get cold. ----------------- As for the confusing part, I'll give that some thought, I use to have a dirty habit of confusing people ( sort of on purpose) to break down their defenses before I made my pitch. It may have become second nature, damm I'm not sure. I think at times I have to get completely confused before I can be creative. It must be a sort of way for me to purge my prejudices, and re-fresh my out look. Now days I'm more aware of my confusion than I use to be, and I have a tolerance for living in a lot of it, that at one time would have drove me up the wall, perhaps I spill over some just unconsciously probing around and trying to find some new structure I can use. Right now I'm not ready for any more introspection but I'll try to keep in mind that I maybe ought to check my bilge before long. --------------- Thanx for the kind words, but I hope none of my stuff as written so far winds up in the Library of Congress, I'm most sure I would be restless in my grave and wanting to go back and improve on it. And taht would be a bummer of a way to have to spend my days in the next life. <G> Jim