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Petris on a hot July day
Friday, July 22 2016
The problem with using gin to take the edge off of a hangover is that it just kicks the can down the road, particularly if one goes on to have another night like the first. But Gretchen was away, so I had license to play. Today's hangover was maybe twice as bad as yesterday's, and at one point I came pretty close to throwing up, though lying on the floor seemed to help. The nausea kept me from eating, and the lack of calories contributed to my dysphoria. Still, I managed to get work done, and my condition improved after about 4:00pm. Still, some of the code I released today included a bug that destroyed some data that I later had to restore (I did so manually). No matter how much I or anyone else loves it, programming is hard, and it's easy to release buggy code when the programmer, with all his or her wishful thinking, is the only one testing it.
Gretchen returned from Philadelphia early this evening with a few (though not nearly enough) goodies from that Mecca of vegan deliciousness. By this point, my appetite was fully restored and so, in quick succession, I devoured two pierogi from Miss Rachæl's Pantry. Later, I would have sandwiches made with faux whitefish spread and garden-fresh lettuce. They were simple delights of comfort food.
Contributing to my dysphoria was the heat and humidity of the day. The laboratory is the hottest room in the house, though I can usually manage so long as a fan is blowing on me. By midnight, though, the entire upstairs was so hot that Gretchen elected to sleep in the master basement guestroom, and I (along with four of our animals) soon were playing Petris on the smaller queen-sized bed there. One of these was Julius (aka Stripey) who never gets on the bed upstairs but was evidently intrigued by the new setting. But I couldn't get comfortable and so eventually went upstairs, which wasn't really so bad with the windows wide open. Also, for some reason there were fewer indoor mosquitoes to harass me up there (and there were also covers there to hide beneath; all the covers in the basement were being used as a picnic blanket for Petris).
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