{"id":37197,"date":"2026-03-16T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=37197"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:04:57","slug":"naoi-mbliana-deag-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=37197","title":{"rendered":"Naoi Mbliana D\u00e9ag Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow marks my nineteenth year of sobriety. I usually write about it every Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day, but I&#8217;m scheduled for a haircut in the morning and a skin cancer procedure in the afternoon and may not be able to get to it, so I&#8217;m posting a day early.<\/p>\n<p>As I say every year \u2014 glad I quit, wish I&#8217;d done it sooner, don&#8217;t miss drinking at all, love waking up feeling fresh, life better in every way, blah blah blah. I&#8217;ll write more about the joys of sobriety next year, when I hit the big Two-Oh. I mean, what&#8217;s nineteen? Just a number, and not a very exciting one. But of course for an alcoholic staying sober, every number is exciting, so yay me. And if you&#8217;re on the same journey, yay you!<\/p>\n<p>This year, for the first time, I gave myself a reward, a new watch, ordered from an overseas supplier two weeks ago and not expected to arrive until after St. Patrick&#8217;s. But it has arrived, lucky me, and has already been unboxed, wound, set, and worn.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"IMG_7861\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/55148150970\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55148150970_f0c7ebe55b_m.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7861\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"IMG_7865\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/55146875137\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55146875137_fd6741966e_m.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7865\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"55147718416_5dde35b0dd_o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/55152178130\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55152178130_74c29af6de_m.jpg\" alt=\"55147718416_5dde35b0dd_o\" width=\"156\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you guessed it&#8217;s Chinese, you win. It&#8217;s a Red Star Peoples&#8217; Liberation Army Air Force pilot&#8217;s chronograph. It has a Sea Gull mechanical movement, originally Swiss and made in China under license. It&#8217;s a hand-winder, old school all the way, and though I normally don&#8217;t cotton to military fabric straps, the one this watch is on is a great match and comfortable to wear, so I probably won&#8217;t change it. At least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow marks my nineteenth year of sobriety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4432,18,2],"tags":[3038],"class_list":["post-37197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-seiko","category-consumerism","category-personal","tag-sobriety-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37202,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions\/37202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}