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its as wonderful as ever. especially on cask at the brewery.

Why not?

change is good, but i have to admit, i'll miss the crimson pic!

you said: not sure what a 1.5 chip is, but i hope it's a good thing

as people in recovery move forward on their paths of sobriety, AA or NA or other 12- step programs mark the anniveraries with a "chip" (they resemble poker chips) or a keychain, for intervals like 1 hour, 1 week or 30, 60 and 90 days; or 6 and 9 months or yearly.

so 1.5, or 18 months, acknowledges that achievement.

after that, they are awarded on an annual basis.

(but lately i have wondered what they give people in gamblers anonymous--probably giving them a chip is not a great idea!)

i was an addict (marijuana, pharmaceuticals and heroin) for 30 years, until my wife kicked my ass.

so i went into treatment june 24, 2003--my very 1st day of sobriety in 3 decades.

i owe my life to her, to sierra tucson (where rush limbaugh, among others, went) and to narcotics anonymous.

so although i never thought those cheap, little bits of plastic meant much, now i see they are paid for dearly and mean more than non-addicts or non-alcholics ever realize.

so, yes, it is a very good thing!

and fyi, suicide girls has its own group for sobriety!

stay turn for a new pic for my profile--me and frank zappa, shivering in an open field. news @ 11...........

happy new year, dude!

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I sent your package out yesterday! Your lovely lady will love em!!!!!!

Thanks for buying our socks!!!

Thanks for the Frere-jones correction earlier. Are you a reader?

yep, lovely stuff it is too, photo was taken while on hol in Cologne. have you been there?

Kudos Saucy_Son! I was raised in a christian environment, and one thing I know is, the church can be really hard on you! It took a lot of balls for Bush to make that speech in front of his christian supporters. By making that statement he put himself on the line with the church in general.

I didn't take it that you were endorsing it... I was just speaking my mind about it.

I think he's the worst thing that's ever happened to the left, because the massive support that he gets for his incompetent and/or intentionally deceptive (I suspect both are in play) views and works really discredit liberals who have reasoned, intelligent viewpoints to discuss.

e.g. it's hard to hold a discussion in a room with a shouting moron.

I have a T-shirt from Avedon's 1995 Minneapolis museum of art retrospective - it is a blurred B&W of a man's face moving up and down.

Creepy, evocative, funny and very human all at once. He was a true artist of his medium.