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Everybody I'm Sheldon and I'm an alcoholic. It's a pleasure to be here. I'd like to thank Jerry feeding the very thing that I'm trying desperately to kill.

It's like this is great. There's people on here that I know very well and a lot of new friends and this zoom thing is an absolute crazy miracle.

I was at a book study last night and we were reading the forwards and if you haven't read the last couple of paragraphs of the forward to the fourth edition which came out and I think

010203 some time around there take a look at it because it was the first time I read it in a couple of years and it really made me smile about the power of God and the power of alcoholics anonymous and the times that we're currently living in.

Anyway we're going to spend 45-50 minutes talking about my favorite subject which is me. I hope you guys like listening about me as much as I like talking about me.

I always have three things on my mind anytime I share my story and alcoholics anonymous. My goal is that I can entertain most of you.

I'd like to inspire a couple of you and only offend one or two of you. If you're on the list of events obtained that's great.

If you're offended call your sponsor that's their job not mine. But if you're inspired next to my name is my phone number it's not there for show.

I love talking alcoholics about alcoholics anonymous. We're all busy and time zones are interesting so it's always best to shoot me a text first but I'm so in love with alcoholics anonymous and what this program is done in my life in the last couple of decades.

I am sober since July 17 of 1996. My sponsor's name is Charlie H and because of the power man go zoom my current home group is the Hamosa Beach men's tag in Hamosa Beach, California.

You know that it became necessary for me to change home groups at the beginning of the pandemic and the beauty was it didn't matter where the hunger was.

So I got to pick that one and as we begin to go back to the normal life I will need to have a home group that I can stand at the door of and shake hands.

So it's getting ready to change again. I don't know what it's going to be or what it's going to look like but it's a continuation of the adventure.

I was born in England. I don't sound like it. I've been in America since 1984. I was 16 when I moved here. I've been here for I don't like to think about it.

Holy cow, three quarters of my life. It's a long time to be somewhere. My accident has gone away over the years.

My brother who is also in the States but he moved here in his mid 30s. He still has a strong extraction and he always tells me that he thinks I lost my accident because I have no real personality of my own.

It may be true. We're chameleons. We like to pretend to be things we're not so we can fit into. We press people.

We don't particularly like. It's one of the personality traits of the typical alcoholic.

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