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Two weeks with no internet or cable and only my iPod for entertainment. Nearly went nuts. I am however enjoying living alone. There haven't been any major snags living alone yet. Just a small slip with my alcoholism. I had the flu. Went to the corner store for anything to treat cough since it turns out the medication I bought earlier in the day didn't cover cough. When I was first diagnosed my doctor told me to use Robotussin, Mucinex, and Benadryl only with my meds. I get to the store at 8:00PM in the pouring rain, totally miserable and the only thing the Chinese grocer has is NyQuil. My options were green or red. So I chose red, thinking cherry flavored. No idea what flavor green would be. I get home. Take a shot of NyQuil and go lie down. Thirty minutes later I am still coughing so I go take another dose. Then things start getting blurry. I ran out of NyQuil. Went to the store and asked if they had bourbon. Because I was having intense alcohol cravings. I was directed to a liquor store three blocks away, which somehow I managed to make it to and back home. Got through about a quarter of the bottle before Chandra called. She said I didn't sound right and demanded to know what I was doing. I explained I had bought NyQuil, and she stopped me right there.

Apparently NyQuil is 10% alcohol. I got drunk off cough medicine and then started binging further. She had me pour out the rest of the bourbon. I then induced vomiting because I didn't want to wind up in the hospital (had to be walked through putting my fingers down my throat).

But I survived and am sober right now. No cravings. Just a stupid slip on my part. Went and bought non-alcoholic cough medicine the next day.

Now I am getting caught up on emails, downloads of Lost. I programmed my DVR to record Heroes, House M.D., Lost, Nip/Tuck, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse and Battlestar Galactica. I guess only 7 hours of television a week is pretty good.

My date with Christine didn't happen last Friday. Both of us were sick. Me with the flu, her coming off Zoloft. So hopefully we can reschedule at some point.

Today is going well, other than I had to buy 50 feet of CAT-6. Well actually 100 feet. I am hoping to return the other 50. Fortunately I got it at Best Buy and not Circuit City.