I've OFTEN said to myself "Why do we do this to ourselves when we have to work on Friday", but then I remind myself that we'll be drinking again on Saturday, just hanging around the house, so that makes it a little easier to stomach. We don't get completely stinking rip-roaring trashed on Thursdays. Well, at least not all the time. We go to the bar, have a few and have dinner, then go home, where we can continue to drink a little more carelessly, knowing we don't have to drive anywhere else.