Almost through...

...the most difficult day of the year.

If I could have followed through on my ambitious plans to work, work, work -- I was being sarcastic in the previous mention of early-morning boozing -- today might not have been so unpleasant. But it didn't work out that way.

I've deleted the next six paragraphs of this. So let's leave it at that.

I'm not handling my annual numerological readjustment very well.