I drank 6 shots of vodka yesterday between noon and 7 pm.
I put it in tall glasses of Structured Water.
I bought a half-pint of vodka yesterday at noon to celebrate my book. : )
5 hours later I drove to BevMo to get two more single shots of vodka.
I had smoked a bit of cannabis first.
My BAC may have been normal, actually, because I was averaging less than one standard drink per hour.
HOWEVER, I don't know what my BAC was, and I DO know I was impaired and had no right to be behind the wheel!
Believe me, now that I've gone public about sometimes driving after I drank, I know I'll never do it again, and I will tell you if I do.
I just found this online (I'm certainly not a man, but I do weigh 170 lbs.):
GENERAL RULE OF THUMB: As a general rule, disregarding things like individual weight, sex and personal metabolic rate, 2 standard drinks (see definition below), consumed during the first hour of drinking, will increase a person's level of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to approximately .05% Remember that, for now, in Missouri, to be legal is defined as less than .08% for an adult. If you continue drinking one standard drink per hour after that, then your blood alcohol level should remain very near .05% The key to using this general rule to estimate your BAC, is to make a mental note of the time you started drinking, and the exact number of drinks consumed. As an example, to figure out if you are over .05%, count the hours since you started and then add 1 to the number. If you started drinking at 7:00 PM, and it is now 9:00 PM, 2 hours have passed. Add 1, and you get 3, which is the number of standard drinks you could have consumed and still be close to .05% BAC. If 3 hours have passed, then add 1, and you can consume 4 standard drinks, to still be around .05%. Another way to look at it, if you are trying to pace yourself, is to allow for 2 standard drinks the first hour, and only 1 standard drink for each hour after that. The General rule works best for a man weighing aprox. 170 pounds. It will not be accurate for a 120 pound woman.
With The Intention Of Achieving Balance And Control Over Drinking And Being Fully Deprogrammed From CultAA--which I am learning to forgive, and let go of. Research teaches us that 1 out of 3 people are problem drinkers, but 90% of problem drinkers are Not Alcoholics and can change.
My Drinking History: Over four decades of mostly problem drinking, five drunken-related arrests in my 20s (the early 80s), of abstinence and binge-drinking, of trying moderation and usually-or-often failing, of being immersed in almost every other recovery group out there, but of being mostly sober.