These days, I prefer the comfort of a familiar location while knocking back a few. I prefer drinking whisky with people with whom I feel a compatibility of temperament, telling stories that don't end with obscenities, sipping scotch while listening to music or interesting conversation on the radio--in short, being subdued rather than making an intrusive, annoying impression on the innocents around me.

Is is this a good or a bad thing? If you think it's bad, chances are you're younger and more energetic than I am, and in that case I think I can safely predict that one day you'll have an outlook similiar to mine--if you survive your youth. If you think it's good, then I'd like to talk with you at greater length. Mind you, I have nothing against annoying, public, in-your-face drunkenness; I've done my share of that. It's just that I no longer seem to have the energy to indulge in that kind of sport.

Plus, there are few things like being a daddy (with another one on the way) to make one readjust one's habits, if not one's outlook.

Kev
waxing philosophical