Home again. Ungh. Back to back trips take it out of me. There are several factors there. First off, I bust ass really hard at customer sites. Then there’s eating unfamiliar and rich food, generally with alcohol if the host has decided that we’re going out on the town. Then I spend weird hours on the airplane getting dehydrated. The final factor is that I’m used to sitting quietly at home all day. Over-stimulation is exhausting. Sort of like going to the mall, or to a casino. Too many blinking lights and gonging bells keep me in a state of nervous excitement.
But after an unexpected but totally blissful two hour nap from 11am to 1pm today, I feel great.
There was a historian on the radio the other day who commented that malpractice lawsuits really got off the ground early in the 20th century. It was people whose bones had healed improperly after having them set by a physician who got the ball rolling. Prior to that, state of the art was amputation, and not many people sued over a botched one, for obvious reasons.
Now I’m ogling new computers on the web. My trusty powerbook is doing fine, but a 60% speed boost to the processor sounds really good right about now.
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