I recently stopped drinking as well...after years of debauchery, although I am in good shape and eat healthy, drinking just does me in, college and then the Service breeds bad habits.....and I realize that I can't have "just a couple". maybe one night I can, then another, but eventually I'll fall into a binge. No Good!
I finally decided I wanted to be productive and healthy all the time. We'll see..I live in a small ski town in Northern VT where it's a lifestyle to have a beer in hand any occasion except church. In fact one of my friends who always talks like a hillbilly told me.."boy, you look Stupid sober"...quite funny..
I stand with Cack on the bar issue..once in a blue moon I may wind up in a club, thru no choice of mine..A good Honkey Tonk with a band who is really laying down some outlaw country or wailing some country blues gets me going..unfortunately, I am in the North..and we don't get that often here...Although we do have the Starline Rhythm Boys..(great local band here in New England Cack..if you can find em on the Net..)
As far as girls...I do better picking up girls in a setting where we can actually have conversation and interact, then in a mindless industrial club setting where you can't hear yourself think...no offense guys..