Without Fear

That beer can is for the Melon Degeneres – a watermelon sour ale, and it’s sweet and delicious.

I love a good sour. And I only ever need 1 or 2. My days of drinking for half a 24 hour cycle through dozens of standard drinks, most of which taste like goblin ass rinsed through hag hair are over. I just want to sit with a nice thing and enjoy it in that moment.

I think it’s important to identify what these things are, and then structure time and tide to have those little things now. Of course I’d love another NZ holiday, or an Artist’s Edition book of some Lark/Brubaker Daredevil, but those are the mountains we climb, between those should be the walks we dawdle through.

It’s why I like the mornings where I read for 10 minutes. It’s why I don’t drink absolute pisswater coffee made from the finest carcinogenic granules you can find. It’s why I’d prefer to support small business and get something a little more expensive, and a whole lot more delicious. It’s why I use my damn notebooks as I buy them.

I enjoy a delicious ale when I make my own pizzas. I like a coffee from a pot with my wife when we can. I buy mostly creator owned comics, and do so from my LCS and not Amazon. I try to push myself to make better desserts [tastier, and not just SHOOGARR!] – tonight will be bread and butter pudding again.

If I keep putting off the stuff I love, I don’t know if I’ll make it long enough to get them. Tell your mates you love them, have a laugh and a biscuit now, mix peanut butter with as many substances as you can – lately it’s peanut butter on cheese for me.

It’s not decadent, it’s reasonable, and it’s self-care, and it’s what gets me through sometimes. I’m aware of my scope of influence, it’s small, and I’m at the centre of it and if I neglect myself then I’ll whither on the vine, and then I won’t do anyone any good.

Find your own watermelon beer – and let me know if it’s a good drop.