Uncle Bill didn't drink all the Heineken I bought for him the last time he and Yangdu were here for a while and over night.
(He's gonna get to finish it up this time, maybe.
)
Uncle Bill's just remembering his younger days when he, like me and so many of us, used to be able to really put it away.
Besides everyone's gonna kinda watch themselves since we have womenfolk and kiddies around.
I only missed work one time back in my over-imbiding days. I woke up out on the Morongo Rez one morning, a Sunday, stuck in the sand in a dry wash with an old Datsun pick-em-up truck.
My head was as big as one a the tires was round and my mouth felt like the Bird of Hell flew over and dumped in it.
I never did inquire as to the source of the water that was running over the desert sand in a small trickle:barf: and I still don't wanna know. I do know that it dayumed sure didn't come from the natural spring that was a little further down the edge of the hill.
The
Big Problem was the silver dollar size hernia I had on my lower right side that had popped out when I had the dry heaves.
Fortunately I was in good enough shape that I was able to get rid of it by uping my exercise regimen. And that's also the last time I weighed 175 pounds with a 30" waist.
Now I would settle for 225 Pounds and a 34" waist.
I've been sicker and more miseable since that time, but dayumed sure not from drinkin a fifth of Wild Turkey, the good stuff(?) that was older and more powerful than the young 8 year old(?) whisky.
Another time was way before that when the mother of my kids and me split up, 1965. I drank a whole pint of Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey in about an hour that night, wonder I didn't die from alcohol poisioning that time. But I got over it and her too and have been Much Better Off since!!!!
I'm sure glad I have enough European Blood that helped to control the dieing urge to have a drink and then follow through on it. I finally learned to control that urge and have drank responsiblely since 1987, although there have been no escapades like the first ones since 1977, the Rez episode and another woman.
I never thought I would live near this long and besides that I set out to prove correct all the family that said I would never amount to nothing and that I would come to a bad end.
I figgered if I had the name I had just as well play the game.
Now I just set back and enjoy a nice highball tumbler of really good scotch whiskey and water on the rocks about once every month or so, sometimes 3 months in between.
But I can remember those good, bad old days.
And who-ed ever thought that I would end up a very respected old ndn Elder with lots of relatives that truly love me as well as the most wonderful lady in the world for me.
Life has never been better in spite of all the health concerns!!!!!!!
Yvsa, wondering where all that came from.
