Another Solo Mission - Drinking alone? Post here!

[Hugh]

It's only 4 in the afternoon, but I'm going to start drinking now. Hopefully I won't decide to go out and hit the bars after I get drunk. To help me in that end, I haven't showered or shaved today and I'm in desperate need of a shampoo. I'm less likely to go out if I'm dirty and smelly.

Bukowski fell in love with a dive bar in Philly so much he ended up staying there for almost a decade. he would get there BEFORE the bar opened (the opening bartender would let him in) and stay there until closing time, leaving only to take naps in the alley or graveyard nearby. The nightshift bartender hated him, they used to get in fights all the time. (Portrayed in the movie Barfly.) In Buk's letters he talks about the time he finally whipped the guy, the bartender's real name was Tommy Mcgillian. I've often wondered how I would fit in in one of those back east dive bars - me in my pastel tank top and kitten heel boots. I've always fit in well in the dive bars out here, even the ones that I was warned I should stay away from. (And oh the stories I could tell about the men in those places that got drunk enough to drop their inhibitions.)

Yes, being drunk goes a long way in tolerating Lonely Old Man as he drones on and on. When I'm undrunk it's all I can do to keep from telling him to shut up. Oftentimes Lonely Old Man is so grateful for a listener he will buy you drink after drink.

[Nausea]

Hugh you smelly motherfucker. You should have started drinkign sooner.

[oettinger]

I could tell about the men in those places that got drunk enough to drop their inhibitions.)

We have burned-leather stomaches.

Tell

tell

tell now

[Hugh]

I could tell about the men in those places that got drunk enough to drop their inhibitions.)

We have burned-leather stomaches.

Tell

tell

tell now

A few more glasses of wine, and I will.

[Hugh]

Since the latest update, my laptop has crashed twice - forcing me to remove the battery to get it started again.

This is a Windows 7 laptop that has the free windows 10 upgrade. So I can't just hit the factory reset button and be done with it. I'll have to purchase a new laptop.

I'm thinking about a HP 17 inch laptop with a DVD drive to watch movies on.

Goddamb I want it to be the last laptop I ever buy.

You never have this problem with televsions or radio. YOu can keep TVs and radios for a lifetime. Computers you have to buy every couple of years.

[Hugh]

And another crash just now. Fuck Idon't have enough money to keep up with this bullshit

[Hugh]

So in the yelp reviews someon took a picture of tobacco rhoda's and there I am in my white sleeveleess shirt at the bar while they took a pic of the pool table. my jeans were low and my panties were high.

[Hugh]

let me kknow if you an see it

[Artful Drunktective]

^ ^ ^I think the most disturbing thing in this pic is the plush toy claw grabber.

[Nausea]

^ ^ ^I think the most disturbing thing in this pic is the plush toy claw grabber.

Haha. What the hell is that doing in a bar? Pathetic.

[Dear Booze]

^ ^ ^I think the most disturbing thing in this pic is the plush toy claw grabber.

Haha. What the hell is that doing in a bar? Pathetic.

There's a dive in my town called Ruby's. They have one of those plush toy claw grabber machines too. The shit inside is mostly sports team and nascar baseball caps and stuff like that. I've never seen anyone playing the thing.

[ThirstyDrunk]

That is called Kinder-Care, it's where you put the baby while you drink at the bar.

[Hugh]

That claw machine had porno DVDs in it, too.

Just now got up and checked Facebook while the coffee brewed. Sure enough, my notification bell was lit up. People reacting to a post I have no memory of making last night. There was also a notice that someone liked a post I made on a Gwen Stefani video, too. I get tired of finding shit like this in the mornings, but I guess it's better than going out to a bar. I'm going to have to find a way to force my WiFi to shut off at a certain hour each night to keep me off this thing.

[oettinger]

The shit inside is mostly sports team and nascar baseball caps and stuff like that. I've never seen anyone playing the thing.

Lush: I want that Brooklyn Dodgers hat, I wore one when I was a child and we cheering for Hitler`s baloon to land

And the original dusty Browns hat please, with the whole franchise history attached to it

[Hugh]

Fuck. Just dropped $800 on a new HP laptop. $50 of it was taxes. And then a $5 recycle fee for the state of California. It doesn't even ship until August 22, two weeks from now.

But the pain is eased by solo drinking. It's 7 PM and the sun is hidden by buildings and trees to the west, within minutes it will be dark. It'll be me, the wine glass, and a single lamp in the corner.

Reading Montaigne. He's about the least full-of-shit philosopher out there. He makes an effort to not be full of shit. Too many philosophers make what I call MPU's, or Meaningless Prophetic Utterances. Montaigne speaks clearly. He admires the Seven Sages a little too much, and quotes from them often. He really quotes a lot from Seneca. But 500 years ago he sat alone in that little room of his in France writing those essays, and now here I am on the west coast of North America alone in my room reading him. I wonder if he had me in mind as a reader when he wrote those things. I'm a peasant, so maybe not, but unlike other philosophers, if he knew I was reading him he would be pleased.