The Book: A Reluctant Journey Through Sobriety My latest book, coming out shortly, is called Fat Loser w/ a Laptop. It takes you through how I went from struggling with alcohol to giving it up. The sad part of that story—and a recurring theme in the book—is that I didn’t stick to it. After eighteen months off the grog, I decided I wanted a beer. While I’m not as problematic as I once was—trying to keep it to one big bottle a week—I can see how things could slip if an issue popped up in my life. I’m fairly free of issues at the moment, so there’s been little need to turn to the bottle. Slipping Back In But I haven’t been having just one beer lately. I’ve been having one at home, and then maybe another on another day if I’m in a bad mood—or a particularly good one. And then I’ll have another one or two schooners when I go to the pub for a steak, or a piece of fish, or a snitty. By the way, the Milestone has $12 snitties, all day, every day, at the moment, and I think it includes gravy. I like when I don’t have to fork out extra for gravy. But I digress. I’m back on the grog, just in a good phase. We’ll see what happens over the next year or so—stay tuned. Re-Reading Myself Getting back to my book Fat Loser w/ a Laptop, I was rereading it two days ago and noticed how quickly I forget my promises. I swore off telly, then a few entries later I was raving over a TV show I’d watched. I swore off writing about big-picture worldly issues like politics to focus on the more human aspects of growth and becoming. Then a few entries later, I was talking politics again. I’ve let it all hang out. I haven’t edited it to make me look less of a hypocrite—that’s life, that’s people. If anything, it makes the book more genuine and real. Freewriter Fail and Public Accountability Oh—I just lost a life on my Freewriter writing game. I’ve done three articles this morning and that was my first flub. Guess I really didn’t have time to take a gulp of water. I did this thing where I was online talking about how I’d been sober for eighteen months—I think I may have even made it to twenty months. Then I just started posting things about having a cold frothy at the pub. I’m sure people love that: “Look at this bullshitter. Off the grog, yet having beeros down the pub. Caught, loser. Caught you.” #reflections Published 15-9-2025 Written on https://freewriter.app