I am on a booze sabbatical. Just started. I enjoy occasionally sipping on some De Kuypers fruit brandy at night. Evidently I had too much the other night. Saw a broken glass piece on a bookcase in the bedroom. Wife told me that she had to walk me to bed and I fell against the bookcase breaking the glass. That’s never happened in my life.

Dave, sorry to hear this. Glad you weren't cut. My ex -- now sober for years -- was a vodka drinker. One night she fell trying to sit in a chair and broke a rib. On another night she fell and struck her face ending up with a perfect black eye. Acquaintances thought I had hit her. I have never hit a woman. But bad things sure can happen under the influence. It was an auspicious day for the human race when some guy in the Neolithic left some wild grain in rainwater and came back a week later ...

I’m not 25, nor do I want to be.