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Hometown:: Maysville KY now near Philly

Relationship Status:: Married

How long clean and sober: sober from booze 09/16/2000, from rec drugs since 1991

About Me:: non posting member of half a dozen sobriety lists

Looking for?: hmmm.....

Website:: http://null.net

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And life rolls on..., ... the bank I work for has been bought, but I don't think it will change the job much. ... at that job, a new printer is likely to arrive this week, making six to keep up with. ... facing up to facts, I have to go into debt, but would like to do just one at a time. Make that two, I have a student loan i'll be paying $300/month on, probably for the rest of my life. Top of the list -- a lower plate, since I have two natural teeth left and basically on a liquid diet. That… Continue

Posted on March 17th, 2008 at 3:14pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Holidays upon us

...and it could be my least liked time of year.

The day count stands at 2626. That's 7y 2m 10d.

Why the least? got a list...

...my first marriage dissolved December 1982 (divorce final 02/1983)

I disappeared big time into booze and drugs.

...my father passed away 12/11/1992. A little more than a year before he had rescued me from what was probably my "bottom" in addictions, though I hung on to the booze for another eight years. Some could say my recovery cou…

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Posted on November 26th, 2007 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Monk Update for August 2007

I'm gradually fitting in at the job. I basically know how to get the work out, the details are just too many and varied to hold in the brain at present. The Egyptian who "trained" me (a cultural barrier there resulted in me mostly training myself) is going to take a few days off and I'll be working with the newer-than-me guy that started last week. Should be interesting. Ehab the Egyptian will be back for the heavy volume at month-end and I'll draw some extra hours (note I didn't say overtime…

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Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 9:56am — No Comments (Add)

this month's update

Cruising toward 6 yrs and 10 months...

This month has been a bit busy... as mentioned last time, I spent a weekend in Indiana with the siblings. Flew out Friday afternoon (6/15) and Friday night was glorious, a "pickin' on the porch" jam. I'll try to get some pics up soon, saw somebody's bluegrass band pics. Who that be? Fess up... Saturday (the monthly anniversary) the gang went to Nashville (IN), did some more pickin' in a music store, and walked in the woods. Flew back Sunday.…

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Posted on July 8th, 2007 at 8:08pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Monk update

Today is 06/12/2007 and I'm rolling into 6 years and 9 months sober.

When that actually occurs (06/16/2007 @ 1800 EDT) I will be in Indiana at the annual gathering of the Phelps clan. That takes place at my preacher brother's home, as it did last year. It's a gathering of the children of Jack and Alpha - three of us scattered across the country - and it's been a restorative time for me and siblings every year.

When I return I start another short IT contract (four days at four di…

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Posted on June 12th, 2007 at 1:12pm — 4 Comments (Add)

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At 9:56am on August 27th, 2007, Dale Phelps said…: new pics and blog entry

At 9:44pm on July 8th, 2007, Ricky said…: hey brother dale- i'm the picker that put all those bluegrass band pics on the ning. i'm out here in northern calif. i play the mandolin, guitar, & the hog fiddle. i play quite a few gigs out here in cali. i'm in my first 11 months of sobriety ever. bluegrass & green bud was my thing, but it made my throat raspy for all the stanley bros harmonies. anyway, i'm truly enjoyin my new life without the disstraction of drugs & alcohol. i'm a personal assistant/chef during the day. I've been to IBMA once (in kentucky) and you boys aoyt that way can pick some bluegrass. i've lived & played in Harrison ARK, Evansville, Indiana, Henderson, Kentucky
Maybe our paths will cross someday? Take care 7 be well brother. Thanks for givin me a holler
Red Rico

At 8:08pm on July 8th, 2007, Dale Phelps said…: new blog post...

At 3:17pm on May 27th, 2007, Dale Phelps said…: hehe

At 7:20pm on April 25th, 2007, I_M_Paul said…: Dale,
How's the contract search going ???
"Hang in there" from someone else old enough to remember punching 80 column cards on, I think, an IBM 29 card punch console so that we could feed them into that all knowing and powerful IBM 360 that took up the whole first floor of the data center at college (circa 1974). Business major but we wre told that we had to learn that stuff 'cause it was the wave of the future.

That would qualify as a huge understatement.
Peace,
Paul
You're my hero; more than 6 years in.

At 7:51pm on April 15th, 2007, SocraticGadfly said…: Hey, you actually look like a cross between a monk and a Mob enforcer. A Jesuit hit man?

At 9:31am on April 10th, 2007, Dale Phelps said…: how did you hear? Oh, I can guess. Yes, car is totaled. I probably still a job too, just one day off an alreaduy short contract.No people injuries, just machines... "tin boxes" mostly accurate, lotta plastic left on the street :o)