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30 days and starting to rise

I started to do dry January and failed after 2 weeks.  Not surprising and man it was a real shitshow.  I rode my bike to meet a friend in the snow for "exercise" and ended up getting super hammered at an abandoned building, watching it snow.    But since the, after having started over, it's been 30 days dry.  I am going to try for 90.  I started reading a great book "The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober" by Catherine Gray.  She's great, super funny, British, and basically partied to my level if not a tad harder but for a tad shorter period of time.  I think she went dry around 35 years old and I'm on the wrong side of 45.  So far things have been going pretty well.  IP Man, my alter ego and voice that voices my addiction tries to get me to drink, especially on Fridays, and also will attempt to get me to rationalize trying moderation, but I"ve tried this time and time again and it just doesn't work for me.  I'll just have 3, no 2. ...