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AthFest 2019 On The Small Stage

As usual, it was hot, but not all that bad under the tent.  I wasn't under the beer tent.  I volunteered this year, for the second time only this time I was sober.  I'm not really trying to make a big deal of the sobriety thing, but when I think back to the last time I volunteered I remember I was pretty messed up.  I made it through the entire weekend without walking off, or passing out.  I honored my commitment as has always been the case if I'm working and drinking.  I've never missed a day of work because of drinking.  I'm what some would call a functioning alcoholic.  I prefer to think of myself as a functioning regular drinker, but we are in the midst of a cultural civil war, you know.  And, when Evangelicals elect a non-drinker in Jesus' name who sure seems like he's drunk, I feel I have the right to distinguish between behaviors that Southern abstainers won't.  After all, Christians who do not consume alcohol are superior to all other Christian