I feel like I've been drinking too much intoxihol lately. It's not that it's out of control or anything, it's just sort of gotten to the point where it's kind of pointless and repetitive.

I have sort of a minor hand-mouth oral fixation thing. I almost always have a beverage at hand, and in fact I didn't even realize I did until a friend observed it a few years ago. But, really, I've always got to be sipping something, the key is just to keep control of what. I currently have a giant glass of water that I keep by my desk, and that works fairly well. I make coffee with one of those little steel Ca phe sua da drip makers, which has the virtues of being quite tasty and just enough of a hassle to limit me to two or three cups a day. I don't really stock soda. Carbonated water or iced tea is okay, but I go through it too fast. So, during the days I drink a ton of water and a cup or two of coffee, which seems quite reasonable.

At night, however, I tend to drink booze, and that's just stupid. It's not too bad with beer because beer is tasty and takes a while to drink and comes in small collections of pre-measured servings, but booze is sort of another story. I normally don't stock booze because it's just too easy to keep drinking it, but we brought some out to Flipside and now, low and behold, we've got booze. I managed to donate the whiskey to a good cause, but I've still got half a bottle of Sailor Jerry's rum that I just keep drinking from. It's dumb because, while I enjoy rum-based drinks, I don't enjoy them every damn night. I drink them purely out of compulsive habit.

So, the rum has to go. Half a bottle of relatively decent rum is yours for the taking if you pick it up before, say, midnight tonight. After that, it goes to the sink.