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   unexpected hangover
Monday, September 29 2025

setting: rural Hurley Township, Ulster County, New York

At work today I experienced what felt like a fairly extreme hangover. What was puzzling was that I hadn't actually drunk all that much last night. I've had this sort of thing happen before after having a bender of a weekend, but the drinking I'd done this weekend had been pretty typical. This might be a message from my body that I'm getting too old for that sort of drinking. In any case, I decided not to drink or take any drugs other than black tea today, which is something I almost never do when I have the house all to myself (as I did tonight).
When I got home at the end of my workday, Charlotte needed a good walk. So I took her down the Chamomile gorge to the old bus turnaround, the place where the ad hoc gun range used to be. This time, though, I hiked somewhat uphill of the gun range, and there I found a whole other gun range featuring dangling stainless steel rectangles with huge holes blown through them. This must've been the overflow gun range for those in the know back during the pandemic when the main one would overflow. No wonder the gunfire was so often relentless!
I hiked a similar route to the one I'd hiked a couple weeks ago, climbing the steepest part of the slope past those previously-unknown cliffs to the Gullies Trail and then home on the Stick Trail.
I was still feeling like shit, so I took a bath and went to bed at around 7:00pm, when there was still a little light in the sky.


That second shooting range. Click to enlarge.


A stainless steel target with bullet holes. Click to enlarge.


The recently-discovered cliffs. Click to enlarge.


A block of exfoliating shale at the recently-discovered cliffs. Click to enlarge.


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