I sat down to work on taxes around 9:30pm tonight. Now it's 11:30pm, I've only started to figure out what my tax liability is, and I'm already three bottles deep into a six-pack of Fat Tire. Oops.

Drinking before bed is bad, but drinking only a few beers before bed (so few that you remember falling asleep) is perhaps worse. However, there are several scenarios in which I think it makes sense:

• You have just completed some extremely long, frustrating, complicated, time-consuming, etc... task, and are simulatneously overcome with joy and dog tired.
• It's a weekend night.
• You are camping. This counts five times more if it's winter and snowing or below freezing and you have a spring bag and no tent.
• Its a 24 hour bike race, or any multi-day race really.
• It's your birthday either currently, or in a few hours.
• Your dog ate your bed.
• You've exausted all other prayers and dances for snow/surf.
• They had growlers of 2003 Stone IRS for sale that day.
• And I'm sure many, many more...

Good night!