It's taken me 40 years, but I've finally done what the rest of my family is known to do after work. I've had the beer. It's not even a real beer, it's a MGD 64 - and the reason I'm telling you this is that it went straight to my head.
I'm sure that I've only had 3 sips or so.
The whole family would tell you that I'm not much of a drinker, and there's nothing wrong with that. But, for some reason, it felt absolutely right to do this tonight. I need to be so tired and sleepy at 10:00 that I will just fall into bed and stay there.
Now I just need to find the chips.