Hello, and thank you for joining us once again. It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast. I am your host

and the author of The Peace that you're going to hear today, The Grey Night. Hello, just me settling

down after a long and well-deserved July 4th weekend.

Doing pretty well with things.

Everyone worries a little bit about me this time of year, I think,

or at least puts me in their thoughts, generally speaking, PTSD and the fireworks and all that.

Honestly, they were going insane last year, and this year was just a cool, easy breeze.

One firework at 2 a.m. fucking set me off like a motherfucker.

But this wasn't on July 4th. This was a couple of days prior.

And I lost some recording.

And besides that, everything's actually worked out great.

So I said, fuck it.

That's God saying, screw you, Jack.

It's pretty late night. Why don't you take a few days off? And I did and I feel so

much better. I'm here to talk to you a little bit about what I did the weekend because I didn't do

anything today to get myself in a little bit back what I did the weekend, because I didn't do anything today to get

myself in a little bit back, more shape and everything to record this for you guys. And hopefully,

you know, come back sounding strong and good after my intoxication station that I set up. I, um,

I exercise today, all kinds. You know, I really worked out. I did all kinds of riding and walking and

oh, you know, the bike, the weights, push-ups, the whole stretches and the sit-ups and everything else.

I did them all and I wanted to drink so bad and I didn't.

Oh, I'm so good sometimes, but not often. And I gotta tell you, I think the reason why I didn't drink is because there was a special.

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