🧠 The Day I Realized My Computer Was Part of My Sobriety

Part of the Sober & Wired series by Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)

(Yes, I'm Dead Serious — and So Were the Guys Who Nicknamed Me “Format Freddy.”)

When I first got sober on December 15, 1993, I didn’t know who I was without a bottle in my hand.

I’d spent decades destroying my life — and now I had to figure out what came next.
No career. No real hobbies. Just a lot of wreckage to sort through.

And then came the thing I nev…