I don't usually drink alcohol...

I don't usually drink alcohol. I don't have a particular problem with alcohol, but I also don't find it that interesting. Like once people pass a certain amount of times drinking alcohol to the point of drunkenness, there isn't a lot to be learned from the experience. Besides that mediocre 80s music is actually totally awesome!

But anyway, sometimes I do drink alcohol to decruft. Basically, every couple weeks or so, my brain gets too full of chores and things I need to take care of, and I can't do any of them. So sometimes drinking helps me kind of hit "reset"...is the theory. And a lot of times it does work!

So this Friday, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it. And by the time I had finished it, I was like at the phase where I was really curious what was around the bend, so to speak...so I took a half-liter bottle of wine I had in a cupboard and drank that in one go.

So I got sick, blacked out, and woke up later...without much of a headache, actually, but feeling *exhausted*, but couldn't sleep. And, later, I realized that I didn't get much out of it. So I think I will lay off drinking for a while.

But one thing I do like is a flow state

So, related to the last post about alcohol:
One thing I do like is getting a "flow state" started. And it is hard to define what a "flow state" is, but it's obvious when you have one! And so I guess my point with drinking is that sometimes it can tip me over to the point where my ideas and thoughts just start flowing.

Is the theory.

Of course, there are a lot of other things that can do that. One thing that is ironic for me is that I have the internet here, where anyone and everyone can converse about anything and everything---and that seems like it would be a perfect way to uncork that desired flow state. But in reality...it seems to be more poking around the same 5 or 10 pieces of content, and frittering away time feeling bored.