Part of me is still skeptical. But how can it hurt to try? What I have been doing has obviously not been working. I stay sober for a while and then I drink again. I need to be sober all the time.

There are a number of people in my group who were not believers when they came in. That gives me hope, as do people's statements that the higher power can be whatever you imagine it to be.

OK, I"ve said my two cents. All I can say is good luck, and that it's ultimately your actions that decide.

Complete change of subject. I am using my downtime (hopefully short lived) to immerse myself in SQL Server. My experience and knowledge are reasonable from having used it for several years. Now I would like to be an expert. Not as a DBA, not interested in that, just wanting to be a very good T-SQL application programmer. Any advice on areas to focus on?

Someone once asked Stephen King on the best advice for being a writer.....his answer was simple...."read and write". (What's lost in all of King's writing about the macabre is that King is a very good WRITER). I teach a class where I use T-SQL samples that I've built from over the years....I have over 80 samples that I go through. It was reading and writing that lead to having that many.

Supplies all in place for the 4th?

Party postponed until August.