ByDaBook

Head to the Gulf Shores Pier. You won't be disappointed. Grab a bait catching lure and fish the bait on one side of the pier, fish King's, Jacks, Spanish, Ladyfish, etc. on the otherside using said bait fish.

I am addicted.

Use your East Baton Rouge Parish Library Card to access the digital resources on their website (ebrpl.com). There are some really good trainings and other resources for coding out there. Finding out this site's existence has changed my life.

Come on man. It's not a good action, but it could be a lot worse.

What gets me, is that most of us would lay our lives down for our kids in a heartbeat if it was a split second sacrifice; however, when it comes to the long, hard process of making a marriage work we are out the door quicker than Andrew Debose.

Lots of folks here have seen the effect of divorce on kids, including myself. Yet we toss it around like folding 7/2. Give her LOTS of love man and be patient for change.

Not a Dr., but my dad has alcoholic cirrhosis with hepatic encephalopathy (he). From my experience, I would venture to guess there was an underlying condition other than alcohol contributing to the liver failure. I have read about people with high meld scores that showed a significant improvement after simply quitting drinking. Many alcoholics aren't able to put in the work for sobriety and die as a result (no transplant). But, for those willing to work, you can absolutely get on the list somewhere. With that said, there is still many that get a transplant, return to drinking, and then go back to drinking and kill another liver. My pops drank for 45 years, is 3 years sober, an is on 3 transplant lists in 3 states. Be an organ donor. Prayers to you an your family.

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I just don't have the desire to quit because it is not affecting my work

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I hope it never does. As my drinking progressed over the years and my decision making suffered, it ended up getting the best of me. I had 10 years with a major top 2 oilfield service company in management. 2 kids, wife who didn't have to work, great job. My wife is ADD, and I never really liked adddderal, but I found that it helped me on bad hangover days. So, I had taken some on a Friday morning. Got popped for a random on Monday, fired on Friday. Job performance was outstanding. Had days before got $25K in restricted stock, $20K cash bonus, etc. My boss said their hands were tied. Fired with option to become eligible for rehire. They couldn't take me back in the same city and wanted me to apply in other regions, but "I" would ultimately never be seen as the same again. Decided to start over with a new company.

Nothing like having to come home and tell your wife you lost your job, to look at your kids and see their happiness, their content with finally settling in a new city and making friends... to have to pull them from private schools... uproot them. etc. etc. Pretty selfish moves by me over those years.

So, I hope it never progresses. "It will never happen to me" is a book my mom gave me 25 years ago b/c of my pops alcoholism. Ha, sure it will. Pops is on the liver transplant list with 46 years of daily drinking. Meanwhile, I managed to land on my feet and love life even more than before.

These are logical questions with illogical answers. It is a disease because there is no known cure (defn of disease). It comes down to each individual's physical makeup (genetics included) and their life experiences. Unfortunately, you almost have to go down that path in order to truly understand the answers to your questions. Alcoholics and depression go hand and hand. And, people with a tendency to overdo alcohol often have a tendency to overdo a lot of things. It is a coping mechanism. You have to keep digging to understand what you are trying to cope with.

My buddy had the same situation, but was the seller. The buyer ended up paying the realtor an undisclosed sum to represent her. I sold without a realto recently, and I paid the buyers realtor a 3 percent. Is it really that much of a sellers market? I was happy to just sale my house.

Edit just follow that youtube video. Done.

I've had "Grit" in there before due to the following: 1) Didn't properly clean cast iron pot; and 2) Burned the gumbo and scraped the burn off the bottom while cooking.

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I'm sitting for FAR on July 31. :(

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I HAD to set out a plan. It was 3 hours a day studying...period. For about 2 weeks I studied from 8pm (after kids went down) to 11pm. I then decided that got old and started coming into the office early and knock out 2 hours before 8am.

I sat for BEC without studying a drop and got humbled. Then started asking people who were passing just HOW much they studied....average was about 3 hours a day for 1-2 months. Geez.

Certified Management Accountant I'm told is much harder than CPA...and not to mention CFA....