Hello Peter,

11 Aug 26 22:40, you wrote to All:

Some weeks ago I started a new job. It's part time so I'm only there
like 2 days a week. It's in the food truck business. Never in my life
have I worked in a kitchen or at a restaurant. I'm a former musician.

what instrument(s) do you play?


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Hello Peter,

Hi Daniel!

what instrument(s) do you play?

Professionally, bass guitar and lots of backing vocals.

As a hobby, I play a lot of instruments but mainly guitars and the
accordion ;). I also have my own side projects where I sing. But never
managed to truly monetize that haha.

Cheers

Peter

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Hello Peter,

19 Aug 26 20:50, you wrote to All:

what instrument(s) do you play?

Professionally, bass guitar and lots of backing vocals.

my main instrument is the bass as well. i started to play very late - when i was 28 - but i enjoy playin' with my friends. i started collecting guitars,
but everything slowed down as my kids born.

As a hobby, I play a lot of instruments but mainly guitars and the accordion ;). I also have my own side projects where I sing. But never managed to truly monetize that haha.

i can relate :)

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"I quit smoking years ago, I'll just have this one cigarette..."

Said by many.

I always liked the, "Quitting smoking is easy; I've done it thousands of times" quote.

That said, with drinking, I wonder how it'd be for someone to cut out drinking, then get to my level.

Which is, "drink exactly enough to do a taste test, and never enough to get buzzed".

I know it's unusual, but having the hard limit of, "if there's _any_ risk of getting buzzed, no more alcohol" feels possibly easier, if prone to red-linining.

But, realistically, if one is a problem drinker, never drinking any is probably easier to stick with. And it's not like there's any great point to drinking alcoholic drinks, _especially_ how I drink.

But I like collecting things, and collecting alcohol gives me a collection that inherently is temporary.

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"I quit smoking years ago, I'll just have this one cigarette..."

Said by many.

I always liked the, "Quitting smoking is easy; I've done it thousands
of times" quote.

That said, with drinking, I wonder how it'd be for someone to cut out drinking, then get to my level.

Which is, "drink exactly enough to do a taste test, and never enough
to get buzzed".

I know it's unusual, but having the hard limit of, "if there's _any_
risk of getting buzzed, no more alcohol" feels possibly easier, if
prone to red-linining.

But, realistically, if one is a problem drinker, never drinking any is probably easier to stick with. And it's not like there's any great
point to drinking alcoholic drinks, _especially_ how I drink.

But I like collecting things, and collecting alcohol gives me a
collection that inherently is temporary.

I used to collect Gin. I hade like 20 bottles in my collection and I was proud of it as I'm kind of a Gin snob. I took my collection, put in a box and placed the box in my storage space and I haven't had a drink since April this year.

I don't have a drinking problem. I, however, have family members who do and I've always been careful about alcohol because of exactly that reason.

The reason I stopped drinking wasn't because of that either though. I simply decided I didn't want to drink alcohol anymore. In my previous relationship my now ex wanted to have a drink or a glass of wine almost every day after work and it became old pretty quick. Every Friday and Saturday night there was drinking. I decided not to join her in that habit after a while and it was interesting how the social dynamic of the relationship changed after that.



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Hello Joacim Melin!

** On Monday 07.09.26 - 12:31, Joacim Melin wrote to Adept:

But I like collecting things, and collecting alcohol gives me a
collection that inherently is temporary.

I used to collect Gin. I hade like 20 bottles in my collection and I was proud of it as I'm kind of a Gin snob. [...]

Ah, gin ...the smell of dirty socks. :/

I took my collection, put in a
box and placed the box in my storage space and I haven't had a drink
since April this year.

That's great. Keep away from it. Or.. let it go, sell it, to someone else.

I suppose it's still hard to let go.

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On 07 Sep 26 12:31:16, Joacim Melin said the following to Adept:

The reason I stopped drinking wasn't because of that either though. I simpl decided I didn't want to drink alcohol anymore. In my previous relationship now ex wanted to have a drink or a glass of wine almost every day after wor and it became old pretty quick. Every Friday and Saturday night there was

This.

It seems not too long ago I had a relationship with someone who was a real sweetheart in all the ways a guy could want... Smokin hot chick - she looked after her appearance, great cook/chef, fun hostess... She could be very social, loved to entertain those who were to visit.... and was great in bed. More importantly she loved music and had a way about her that could get a guy yacking it up all night, the type of chick that really cared, or so it seemed.

At the time I had somewhat of a hotshot IT job where I was paid a lot of money to do mickey-mouse work, soooooo we kinda lived it up a bit, as in partying and carrying on all the time, going out, who cares about tomorrow, etc.

It seems that I am of the type of person that has that little voice that says "enough", as in, hey "I'm done", lets just crash out, pig out, watch TV and go to bed, etc etc... but she did not have that voice. When she drank hard
liquor, she did not have any restraint. Either she would party all night or pick some stupid thing to get upset about, to say nothing about the hangovers.

Oh I ended that one with no regrets. Actually I think its the first relationship where I was the one who ended shit. I just knew the future of that would be me in the role of caretaker and yeah, no thanks, too old for it.

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Yeah definitely. I went to treatment, like, 5 years ago. Antabuse and
the whole thing. I was never being an ass to other people, or violent
or any of the classic symptoms, but my dopamine and serotine levels got
so messed up that I eventually did not want to be here anymore. I
stayed sober for 2 years and never felt better. And assumed it was safe
to slowly introduce drinking again, ha ha. Although it hasn't 'caused
any catastrophies (yet), I still think it's unfair to my family to walk around the house hungover and grumpy more or less all the time. Because alcohol does that to me. It's a love/hate thing really. Not to play
around with ;).

"I quit smoking years ago, I'll just have this one cigarette..."

Said by many.

Sklaffkom åt folket!

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