Is This Finally When I Stop Being A Drunk?

I'm on a seven-week-or-so sober stretch, and the plan is onward and upward.

I’ve had mid-size to long-ish runs of sobriety before, probably with the longest one being 10–11 months, but my ultimate goal is to keep it up. I guess there’s a part of me that wants, at 50 (I’m currently 43), to go to a bar and have one beer and watch college football. I am not there yet. Right now, zero is the best play.

I have a very long and ratchet…