...it's a mistake to not go outside and do stuff in the coldest parts of the winter. You start drinkin', and next thing you know a couple of years have slipped away.

If you get out and ski, and go ice fishing, and skating, you still drink, but you seem to burn it off and it damages you less. The important thing is the drinking.

I cannot tell you how many times a beer and a bump kept me from eating a bullet in the short day months.