Good luck with the abstinence! Personally I've never seen the attraction of getting pissed - three pints is about my limit, and then usually only once a month or so at meetings. I think my attitude comes from being from a teetotal household (apparently my grandad used to hit the bottle, so my mum made sure that none of her family did) - when I was a kid the only alcohol in the house was a half-bottle of strictly "medicinal" brandy whose level hardly varied from one decade to the next, except to add a little taste to the Christmas cake! I remember being scandalised at school when a snitch reported to me that my (10 years older) brother had been spotted emerging from a pub...