It doesn't happen very often. Not often at all. But yesterday and into the wee hours of the morning, I got tore up from the floor up. My mother-in-law's 72nd birthday party (her first) started at about 5 pm and ended when everyone gave up the ghost. I forget what all was being consumed and by whom, except for myself, I finished off a bottle of Tanduay rum. Surprisingly, I didn't get falling down drunk. Perhaps it's because of all the activities that were taking place, including videoke. One of my brothers-in-law had rented one of those huge self-contained videoke units.

I'm not even hungover, which is really amazing. It must be because I kept drinking water throughout the evening. I learned a long time ago that hangovers are caused primarily by dehydration.