At some point, I needed to stop day drinking. Think maybe I've hit that moment...

Hernia surgeries and taco recommendations somehow come together here.

Lot of different ways I could begin this particular missive/narrative, and I'll try not go to super deep time-wise on it because it could get self-indulgent (or self-destructive!), but ... well, here goes.

Back maybe 13 months ago, about a month before COVID, one weekday I had gone out, pounded about nine beers at some place, driven home (not wise), and …