Minor Mortality Check?
"Over self-confidence is equal to being blind." So sayeth the unattributed fortune cookie that came with lunch. Such might have been more useful about an hour earlier. Busy moving furniture, I got off to my lunch break a little later than normal. And with a haircut scheduled, I went straight there. That's fine an dandy, but as the cut was wrapping up, I came as close to passing out as I have in years. Close enough to ask them to stop and put my head down while waiting for the lightheadedness to pass. They put me in a reclining chair (usually for washing hair) for a few minutes, and it passed. Still... I know my body pretty well. I'm confident this was a result of lack of food. Or, more precisely, a lack of enough food to equal what my body wanted given levels of physical exertion asked of it. Knowing that might be a concern this week, I started the morning with a bowl of cereal - exactly one bowl of cereal more than I usually have before lunch. It appears that wasn