The great thing about being a senior is that you can use hungover as an excuse for missing meetings. I wouldn’t have dared that at the beginning of my career
My OP is obviously a bit of a joke, but if an employer expect their employees to be perfect and never ever screw up, I’d contend that they’re not worth working for.
You should probably avoid using that too often, or being pretty apologetic about it. Especially if you forbid your juniors from using it as an excuse.
Just show up and say you were testing solutions late :)