Either I should have slowed down or waited until they could put in some re-enforced-concrete underpinnings.
I was right back where I had started, and for the moment didn't care a darn either.

Sin is glorious when you sin gloriously.
But I rallied.

I retrieved myself.

However, I do not take all the credit to myself for this; circumstances favored me.

Shortly I quitted the land of temptation where I had been born, and was back again up North living on dining cars and in hotels, with nothing more seductive to resist than processed pastry and machine-made shortcakes and Thousand Islands dressing; which made the fight all the easier to win, especially as regards the last named.