Day: 7 October 2003

An Attempt At Poker

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So I still feel crappy from yesterday. I am still attempting to do poker with Dan and his friends tonight at his place. I missed the last poker session so I don’t want to be left out of this one. Missing too many may mean not being invited in the future. And I don’t want that. I will get some breakfast and see if I can turn this day around and feel a bit better.

Gus is away with Glenn in San FranCisco for 2 days. He sent a whole big email to everyone regarding attendance and then took off for work. He was not to happy about the lateness and people working from home. I cannot blame him. it is sort of out of control. People just email the group that they will be out sick. That is just not the way it is done. Changes are in the works, or so it seems.

The Holy Day

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Yesterday was the Jewish high holy day. I worked. I probably didn’t have to work, but Keith was out and Justin was in Kingston so I went to work. I never really felt guilty or cared about working on that day, but yesterday I did a little. I am not religious. I never goto temple, not even on major holidays. That does not mean I don’t believe. I have friends who just don’t believe in religion or what not. I believe, but I just don’t think I have to go somewhere every week to prove I believe.

I decided yesterday on the way home from work that I will take off next year on that day. I probably won’t goto temple. I am not deluding myself to think I will do that, but at least I will stay home and reflect.

I didn’t fast either. But I didn’t eat very much. I tried not to eat, but got hungry and had a candy bar. Now this is where I am stupid. I know when I don’t eat allot of the time I get a MIGRAINE. Well I didn’t eat much and got a migraine yesterday. It was a particularly bad one too. I took two butabital’s, and tried to rest. I after about forty minutes I was able to get up long enough to make some dinner. Going to the break fast with my family was out by then so I cooked some food. I ate, and still felt like crap. I ended up lying down around 7:30PM. I know the migraine was a bad one because the drugs didn’t really work that well. I felt the affects of them but they didn’t stop the migraine. Also I almost threw up. Not pleasant I know, but it is what happened. Puking is a sign of a rather nasty migraine for me. I ended up sleeping till 1AM and then got some water and tried to sleep again. I couldn’t and probably fell asleep again around 2:30-3AM.

If I was superstitious (which I am sometimes) I would say that this was the big guy’s way of saying “he you did bad today”, but it really was just me being stupid and not eating. According to my dad (whose only religious claim to fame is understanding this day and the such) if I need to eat for medical reasons or am sick I am allowed to do so. Who knew? Next year I will stay home and eat.