Lake Life Begins Again

Managed to get out of the city and open up my campsite over the weekend. It looked exactly like I left it, and even the weather was almost exactly as it was when I shut everything down in mid-October. The unusually high 22°C temperature gave me a bit of false security, as it got fairly cool overnight — and we got rained on around 10pm.

Still, it was good to see some friends I only see during the summer, hearing what everyone got up to during the winter. I've also officially gotten soft; I had about 4 beer all day and went to bed at a reasonable hour, like some sort of ostensible adult. I'm intending to have a good time this year, but I don't foresee quite as many late nights drinking more than I should.

The thrill has become blunted over the years, as I encounter more and more people who clearly have problematic relationships with alcohol. I'm far from a prohibitionist, but there's a significant tolerance for casual alcoholism baked into human society. It's difficult to understand at times, until I remember how much worse it was even just 100 years ago; people used to be absolutely wrecked on a day-to-day basis.

PUBLISHED: 2026-05-10