Boy, that waking up in the early morning hours, and resuming drinking has given me some world class hangovers back in the day. It was always around 3 or so for me too. Wake up, drink, back to sleep, wake up again in a few hours with a Head From Hell.
I have done the same thing in the past, after a couple of months without drinking, figure, "What the heck, I'll have a couple just too see." Yeah right. I don't know how I figured I would just have a couple when I was never satisfied with that amount before. I always drank to get a good buzz, then continue up to and including blacking out. Why I figured something had changed, and I would be good with "just a couple" I will never know..Of course now I realize I knew better, I was just rationalizing a reason to drink. Oh AV thou are a formidable enemy.