The joys of middle age approaching

Well I'm not as young as I use to be. I'll be 38 soon. I've been letting my time down here at McMurdo break my normal self discipline. I've been drinking more, celebrating more, and just staying up later than I ever would at home. When you are young and doing that sort of thing, the body recoveries rapidly so we just dismiss any bad days. As you get older recovery is not quite the automatic thing it use to be. So here I sit with minor aches throughout my body and a major headache, and I have not touched a drop of alcholol in a week. No, I just never gave myself adequate recovery time from the periods when I did stay up late and drank with friends. I think my new Year's Eve week shall be an ascetic one with a rigid regime to get plenty of rest, a purely healthy diet, and proper levels of excercise. It might be dull but it sure beats feeling old before my time.