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So my name is Tim.

I'm an alcoholic.

I'm a member of Al-Anon.

I'm regularly a mess. I have had problems in many different areas. My first

AA meeting was in January 1993. My last drink was in July 1993. You'll notice there's a little gap there between January and July.

My first Al-Anon meeting was in September 1995, the Earth did not move, but I find Alon very helpful.

Using the program to get through the day. This looks like it's a small topic because a life looks like it's very big and a day looks like it's very small. But the headline, if you want one, is I haven't sorted my life out. I've learned how to have a day. And you put one day after another and you end up with a life. And so what I'm going to look at is what I do to get through the day. And some I'm going to litter it with some little big book

quotations I find helpful if you find them helpful that's great and if you

don't that's fine to. I know some people are allergic to the big book. Well that's just neat and dandy but there's some helpful stuff in there I think. There's a line in Bill's story. Faith has to work 24 hours a day in us and through us or we perish.

And it also has very dramatic, doesn't it? But it had a very specific meaning for me.

I think it was Sister B.M. who said my head would need would kill me if it didn't need me for

transportation. The tragic truth is my head will kill me,

even though it needs me for transportation. I did a number of potentially deadly things between January and July 1993, including getting drunk and going into blackout in Moscow.

If you ever visit Russia, don't visit Russia in 1993.

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