Mainly because I've been so busy the last 10 months I haven't been able to find the time for a good party. There really hasn't been a conscious lifestyle change. It's just the effects of aging, I think. Getting coked up, smoking meth, or rolling on E takes me three or four days to recover now, and although I've had business travel during this time it's always been inadvisable to get my partay on during or after these trips. The Admiral has never been one to show up to a business meeting strung out on drugs or wrecked after a weekend bender. Partying enough that it might affect the flow of cash necessary to fuel the party would never be a good idea.

Will I ever have one of those lost weekends again? Don't really want to end up like Don Simpson, dead of heart failure at 52. I figure if I've made it 10 months, I can go on to my rightful end, dead of liver failure at 62.