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To follow up on that last bit, I was out at the bar Friday night, drinking away as it were, and after the place closed a bunch of us went back to one of the bartender's places to play dominos (I won), and subsequently went through the better part of a bottle of vodka.

It was about 8am, I think, when I stopped drinking and...
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12.30 in the afternoon is not the time of day I like to drive home drunk, but it's better than driving home at like 7am when I was really drunk

I could blame the booze, but I hadn't had that much.

So I'd like to write about something aside from my late-night, after-hours bar existence, since those stories mostly sound about the same, except for the occasional outstanding moment like diminutive crackheads trying to force their way past 2 guys that combine to quadruple her size

Plus, not much of note has happened since that night; the most out-of-the-ordinary thing being getting hit on by a...
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Another long one at the bar, night before last, and once again, I was the most sober person there.

By the end, it was just the barmaid, the doorman (who wasn't actually working that night), and myself.

But I was behind the bar pouring for them, after helping her finish her checkout.

The sun was coming up as I got home.

But last night I...
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Weird day

Included drinking port and eating fancy cheese, DJ'ing, drinking booze, and working the door at the bar while the barman was trying to hook up

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which left me to deal with the cracked-out speedfreak chick that could barely walk but kept trying to come into the bar

I mean ... she was about 5'4" and weighed maybe 90 lbs,, but tried to...
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There's a reason Josh stopped drinking a year ago. I mean, I can't blame the guy for wanting to go out and tear it up with his brother and I while he's on vacation in L.A., but we all got the reminder of why he stopped.

Nothing actually terrible happened, but it came Oh So Close a few times.

Plus, he's really difficult to carry...
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So I'm back from the Old Smoke, and all my fancy cheeses made it through customs (partly or mostly because they didn't bother inspecting them, even though I claimed them on my forms).

Yeah .... I bought 50 worth of cheeses from La Fromagerie in Marylebone the other day -- I could easily have bought another 150 worth, but I just figured that would have...
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I must be getting old -- booze is apparently no longer the substitute for sleep that I've used it for the last few years

Evidence: I fell asleep on my feet during the Buzzcocks gig last night

I blame the wine and cheese after lunch.

Landed in London ... had a couple drinks in the airport to kill the headache I got from not sleeping on the plane, dropped my bags off, went to the Ship.

Oh, yes.

Funny ... doesn't at all seem like I've been gone for 7 months!