I remember back in 1993 getting a CD in the back of an OpenSUSE book, and spending many hours exploring the code. You could modify a file to describe the modules and config you wanted, then run a few commands to compile an entire distro kernel and all, and install it.
Fascinating stuff!
Compiling was even more fun. Once you made it through 'make menconfig' to configure your kernel options/modules, I think it was 'make zImage' or something like that to actually start the kernel compile. On an old 486SX with little ram, it would run for 3-4 days.
That's fine, but why do you equate joy to needing alcohol? That's more a reflection of one's life choices than anything. If life is that bad, change it.
You're projecting. People can have fun drinking, even more so when they are happy.
Your fault -- core dumped