DelFarve: I drink me a little beer on a warm day and a Margarita once a month or so when dining out - but being "sober" is a way of life for me.
I spent 29 years dealing first hand, professionally with drunks, booze hounds, wife beaters and wasted life alcoholics - lesson learned - drunkeness is vile and a waste of ones life, time, money, brain cells, livers and righteousness.
Good luck in October and while you're at it stay sober the rest of your life.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy