I had, as I often do when I'm meant to be doing other more pressing things, a thought today:

Is "happy hour" appropriately named? It suggests, in a rather cheerful way, that the rest of your life must be miserable and meaningless. Not to worry, it's happy hour now - you give us twice as much cash as we spent buying these drinks, and we'll give you what You think is double what you asked for.

Happy-now-broke-and-hungover-tomorrow would be more accurate, but rather less appealing..

Consider this: Jesus turned the water into wine at the end of the wedding, when even all drinkable and undrinkable drink had been drunk and everyone was blitzed out their eyeballs - why did he give them more? And why did he give them such Good wine? Maybe they weren't all as sloshed as that, and were really quite modest (hence running out of booze early).

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

PS: This isn't why my blog is called "water into wine". I just happen to be quoting the same line for a different purpose.