We attended a trivia night tonight.  I’ll admit, I drank some wine.  Quite a lot of wine actually.  So I’m curious, from a intellectual point of view, what my blood alcohol level is/was.

I’m still quite able to realize how impaired I am right now, and I realize there is no way I would be able to operate a motor vehicle.  This keyboard is kicking my butt right now as it is.

So we always hear what some person’s blood alcohol level is on the news, but we never have any understanding of what that means.  Oooohh, he was two times over the legal limit, 0.16, well WTF does that mean?  Given where I am right now, what is this baseline?  What does 0.08 even feel like?  I’d really like to know.

I deal in optics as part of my job, and I know what 20/40 and 20/60 looks like.  Before I got my eyes lasered, I wore glasses.  Without glasses, I could legally drive.  There is no way in hell I’d drive without glasses because I couldn’t see crap even with my good eye.  I’m terrified that people with as poor of eyesight as I had can legally drive.

So this brings me back to the blood alcohol level.  I know I couldn’t operate a vehicle, and I didn’t.  But where on that legal spectrum did I fall?  I’d really like to know.