Thoughts on a Year Sober
Today marks one full year since I went sober. One year!
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Today marks one full year since I went sober. One year!
Earlier in 2025, I did bloodwork for the first time in a while, and found I had some insanely high liver enzymes. I’d come off the heels of five years of college, having spent the last ~year and a half drinking like my liver was bulletproof. I realized that something needed to change, and spent the next year of my life committed to achieving the healthiest liver possible. Turns out, if you take…
Over one year ago, I made the decision to start focusing on my bloodwork. I had just gotten the first comprehensive metabolic panel in years, and the results weren’t great. My liver enzymes ALT and AST 147 AST Normal: 10–40 U/L 71 ALT Normal: 9–46 U/L Source: LabCorp, March 2025 were extremely high, in such an embarrassing way that it basically screamed this person drinks too much alcohol [1]. I…
One month on the road with a self-driving car In summer 2025, I had a pretty big goal. I wanted to drive across the entire western half of the country on a solo road trip, within the span of one month. It took weeks to plan out the complete itinerary, which involved stops in over 23 states, and visiting with twelve different friends all across the country, plus working out of three different…
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