Re: New Bike Path

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:02:19 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:56:41 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>

This morning I only walked a little over one mile, My balance issues
were bothering me, as they often do, and I must have looked like I was
totally drunk by the time I got back. I wasn't, of course. I'd last
had a couple of ounces of Cognac last night at about 1800.

>
For amusement, I ran those numbers through an online blood alcohol
calculator. 
<https://www.calculator.net/bac-calculator.html?csex=m&bodyweight=180&bodyweightunit=pound&thour=8&tmin=0&ba=2&bsize=b330&babv=5&wa=&wsize=c150&wabv=12&la=&lsize=s50&labv=40&oa=&osize=2&osizeunit=oz&oabv=50&x=Calculate>
The results were zero percent blood alcohol level after 8 hrs sleep.
>
I had to guess at most of the parameters:
Weight = 180 lbs

200 LBS

"a couple of oz" = 2 oz
Cognac is about 50% alcohol

40%   (80 proof)

"last night" sleep time = 8 hrs.

Only about 5 & 1/2 hours, but there was a three hour gap between the
Cognac and when I went to sleep. (about 2100)

I suspect that 2 oz of cognac is wrong and that "a couple of oz"
really means the traditional "tulip glass" which is 6 oz.  However,
even at 6 oz, the result is zero percent blood alcohol level after 8
hrs sleep.

We both measure our booze with an 2.5 oz shot glass we picked up at a
Hard Rock Cafe. Like this one, except ours says "Miami."

https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Rock-Cafe-Chicago-Glass/dp/B0078P7ZMG/ref=sr_1_

I very seldom have more than one. I'm also too clumsy to use a brandy
snifter. I use a "rocks" glass.
 

Tinkering more with the numbers, the sleep time has to be reduced from
8 hrs to 2 hrs before any significant results appear (0.018%) which is
still considered safe to drive, cycle or walk.

I'm sure I was stone cold sober.