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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Apr 18, 2005
It's been an odd sort of day. I had planned to do some COGS stuff, then have a 6pm-ish meeting with Chris from AOP.
I got mired down in a bit of web design, and noticed that I was sneezing a lot. By about 2pm I wasn't feeling too good. By 3pm I was covered in a cold sweat and shivering. My first thought was hypoglycaemia, but I realised it couldn't be that, primarily because I *had* thought it, and that degree of hypo would have turned my brain to jelly. The other reason it couldn't be a hypo was that the moment I started to feel like that I drank a half pint of sugary orange drink, and it had absolutely no effect on the symptoms. 
I climbed under the duvet at about 3:25, and lay there till about 5pm; the shivering settled down in about half an hour, but I just didn't have the energy to get up.
After 5pm, I got up, took an insulin shot, ate a garlic bread and generally felt great. 
I phoned Chris and delayed our meeting till after 7:30, just in case. Just before 8pm he arrived with Bob in tow, and we set about doing things to the website, and planning future projects. I recorded ER...
Just after midnight everybody dispersed home. I had a big salad and some crisps while watching ER, and I feel a lot better now than I did this morning. I don't know what the problem was; I'm speculating some sort of "24 hour bug". 
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 19, 2005
yeah, seconded... look after yourself, Peet!
Richard
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 19, 2005
Hey, Guys, thanks. 
When I went to bed last night, after posting that, I figured out what it was. Caffeine poisoning. About midday I had a pint of strong 
on an empty stomach, planning to eat something too, but I was busy and had the 
instead. I should have recognised the symptoms.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 19, 2005
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martine_s Posted Apr 19, 2005
Gosh, one's sniffles pale by comparison. Do you know you have a way of describing your symptoms that is as riveting as Updike's himself. Do you have to regulate strictly the amount of caffeine you ingest?
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 19, 2005
Hi Peet
Loved the story about the computer fair salesman "Every hard drive is removable"!
cheers
Richard
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 19, 2005
No, not really. It was a combination of a couple of days with no caffeine followed by a huge intake that caused the reaction. The irritating thing is that if I'd realised it at the time a plate of stodgy comfort food and a brisk walk round the block would have settled me down within minutes; it's just that the symptoms mimicked those of hypoglycaemia which is more usually cured by a swift sugary drink and a bit of a lie-down.
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