Yet to be tested…but Friday work drinks loom!
04/05/11 • 0 Comments

Roughly 1 week in and work commitments have me tied up to the extent that I haven’t had much time to think of other stuff. This may be a welcome distraction but I have the suspicion that come Friday the temptation to release the stress valve over a couple of beers will be extremely high. The fact that work colleagues will be heading out to do exactly that has me in two minds as to whether I join them and test my resolve in a very tempting environment or be ‘one of those people’ who skips out on end of week work drinks.

Whacking the Beer Monkey Back!
26/04/11 • 3 Comments

A mate of mine use to attribute his hangovers to a mysterious and nasty little creature known as the Beer Monkey. The Beer Monkey attacks without warning after a big night out clobbering you over the head, stealing all the money from your wallet and shitting in your mouth.  Of late, the Beer Monkey has been attacking me more frequently and fiercely. The ANZAC Day Beer Monkey assault was particularly severe and that is part of the reason I am writing this having just undertaken the HSM pledge.    Funnily enough I have lost connect with the mate I refer to above after a particularly ugly incident attributable to the excessive consumption of alcohol. These are the incidents that I’m looking to avoid. All too often I have gone out with the best intentions to have a good time and place a cap on the number of drinks consumed only [...]