I was a typical 70's binge drinker as a kid. Same thing through college and my Africa years. Had a couple of close DWI calls in my late 20's early 30's.

Drinking pretty much tapered off to nothing in my married/fatherhood decades.

Now that I'm back on my own I'm finding alcohol gives me no joy at all. It feels like injecting novocaine into my brain, a dead feeling.

Just as well because I got a family tree littered with alcoholics and I wouldn't want to be some old guy sitting at home alone, drunk.

I mean, we have the innernet for that nowadays wink

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744