Monday Morning Blues

Have you got the Monday morning blues? Do you have to (ugh!) wake up and go to work? Get on the train and go, when you would much rather sleep in?

I know, it's rough. But you know, you can grab a drink on the way home--and you should know that if you should happen to be hopping the train to a Yanks or Devils or NBA or NFL game, NJTransit has an unofficial policy of letting you drink on the train, as does the LIRR and the Metro North. Some people bring beer in painters buckets filled with ice on game day.

Thought you'd like to know. It's going to be a long Monday, to be sure, but on the way home, grab a beer and sit with your compatriots. Get a club going!

Here is an article in the New York Times about the drinking habits of commuters.

Also, in honor of commuters everywhere, here is a recipe for a real stiff one--the energy cola gives you a little jolt so you can spend time with the kids (and the wife) in the evening, and the pomegranite vodka gives you a little sweet-sour-bitter chill to take the edge off. It's quite nice as an afterwork.

This is called a Three Fast Olives.

1 part Nos. energy soda
1 part Three Olive Pomegranite vodka

Pour Nos and Three Olive Pomegranate Vodka half and half in a plastic cup, mix with one of those awful plastic spoons and enjoy!

Note to train imbibers: You can make a great improvised cocktail shaker out of a paper cup and a plastic one with a lid and some ice. You simply put the ice and the liquor in the paper cup, put the plastic one over the top like a Boston Shaker, shake, and then strain out of the plastic cup by making and using a space between the side of the lid and the rim of the plastic cup.

Takes practice to do really well, but the people who mind the Cafe cars on Amtrak trains manage, and so can you.

This post is in honor of anyone who has ever gotten up at 5 AM to catch a 6 AM train to New York and gotten stuck for an hour just outside of the tunnel into Penn Station. Skoal!

SEE YA!