Game Time.

At last!!

As I wrote in the general email announcement last night, I can't actually believe it; a month of clean living in HK! Who would have thought? Or in some other words:

I know, I know. Leaping tall buildings and landing autonomous robotic
space vehicles on Mars aside, this is clearly one of the great
challenges of our decade; no - our century.

Seven set out on the ill fated quest, and through bumps and bruises
(and one or two rule modifications), four came out to today, their
teetotalism intact.

But at last, hell must come to an end.

Indeed.

The definition I used was a "dry month, beginning on the Monday after the weekend of [HK Rugby] 7's"; I coupled that with my usual definition of when the day changes (insomnia taught me that "rolling the date over at midnight" was a fairly useless definition from a practical standpoint, especially when you're about 10 to 12 hours out of sync with everyone around you), namely "it's a new day when you go to sleep and then wake up". I define meals accordingly too - I contend that it's pointless to peg abstract notions of "breakfast" and "lunch" to hours of the day, except when coordinating with people who won't understand the translation. Better that "breakfast" is the first meal within about 3 hours of when you get up, lunch the meal after that, etc.

Brunch, for whatever reason, is completely invariant. Brunch is always brunch, and I love it for that.

But syntax and semantics aside, I rolled the calendar month out using the same date math I tend to use at work - it's useless to take "today" and add a month, assuming a month is some fixed constant. Months aren't constant. And they're hell on databases for pretty much that reason. It is easy at the edge - when it's a the first, a month away is the first of next month. The last day of the last month (IE the monday after 7's) to the last day of this month is one less than the 1st to the 1st. Moral of the story - I woke up today, and that's that. I got into work as early as possible, to put in my 8 hours, and I'm going to enjoy the best tasting Hoegaarden of my life, come around 3 or 4 PM (work adjusted).

On a semi related sidenote, I've noticed that the quality of the croissants is unbelievably better at around 8 in the morning compared to when they've been sitting there til around noon.

See you later - and meet us at Peel Fresco Music Lounge ( peelfresco.com/directions.php ) around 8 ish if you're anywhere near Hong Kong and can swing it!