Nothing Works after a Lot of Work

I worked a lot today. But… Air conditioning doesn’t work. Beer doesn’t work. Book reading doesn’t work. Map reading doesn’t work. Earplugs don’t work. Saying good night in four languages doesn’t work. Epilim lost its credibility long ago. What else should I try to put myself to sleep?

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Those Filipino guys I worked with many years ago in Taiwan and people in Saigon, or in Vietnam generally, would say “same same” when they needed to say the word once. Do they belong to the same “same same” cultural/linguistic sphere? If so, where is the boundary of this sphere?