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# BYCU
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/50073/
- Published: 2020-05-01T12:06:11.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-01T12:06:11.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![IMG_3150](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_31501-225x300.jpg)

On Needing a Drink

Yesterday afternoon, the "currently-negative" Coronabeer headlines were back. **[Right-wing Michigan militia types stormed the Capitol](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hundreds-protest-michigan-lawmakers-consider-extending-governors-emergency-powers-n1196886?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)** (each side has their embarrassments; the left's hold professorships and Hollywood contracts). Swaths of my truck-worn backyard are a mud pit from all the rain. **[They're dumping thousands of gallons of beer down the drains](https://theworldlink.com/news/local/thousands-of-gallons-of-beer-going-to-waste-at-local-breweries/article%5F3821bea6-8a6b-11ea-852c-c7a486cc8c2b.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)**.

I needed a drink.

So I had seven. Lucky Seven. I would've had eight, but that could've pushed me to the brink of grave drunkenness, and I have no access to a priest.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fred-Sanford.jpg)

Though I guess priests are still doing Last Rites. Maybe I could do the Fred Sanford, but I read **[Aesop's Fables](http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)** as a lad, so I know that ploy might come back to bite me when it really matters.

But I suppose things are looking up. For starters, my hangover this morning is far milder than I feared it would be when I woke up at 2:30 to eat a half bottle of ibuprofen, then went to the couch because I had **[Sunday Morning Coming Down Syndrome](https://www.google.com/search?q=sunday+morning+coming+down&oq=sunday+morning+coming+down&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5j46l2.5943j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)**. The strategy worked. I was able to hold my head in a way that didn't hurt and was able to get back to sleep, listening to **[St. Josemaria Institute Podcasts](https://stjosemaria.org/podcast/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)** on Redemptive Suffering to take my mind off my Self-Inflicted Suffering. I slept in a bit and woke up to bright sun and a great forecast, with only a half day at the office in front me, and only a small remnant of the 2:30 headache.

Of course, I think I burned my weekend drinking capacity before the weekend even started, but that's alright. It's early May and it's Michigan. I've said for decades: no place is prettier than Michigan in May. I don't need a drink to appreciate it.