Pause for a Glass of Wine

Well, it was another ridiculously busy day. I've a headache and I got up too early to begin the day.... dozed off a touch in Christian Roemelsberger's (of the Perimeter Institute) excellent seminar just after lunch (triple problem for inducing sleep in seminar: (1) early start after late night, (2) lunch immediately before... (3) sitting in darkened stuffy room with a solo voice talking). Interestingly, I followed everything and only did "power-dozes", so was able to ask intelligent questions during and after.... Taking a short break. It is after six o'clock on a week day, so I'm allowed some alcohol....this time in the form of a glass of wine. (Picked up this ad-hoc rule from my wife -back before she left- and she from her father, I gather.... it's a nice tradition to keep up....) The rule gets broken when one is called on to go to receptions of various ...