Barb,

thanks for the link re: In Plain Sight. I was driven crazy by Mary's sister and mother last season. It made the show nearly unwatchable for me. But if they aren't going to feature the fiance anymore, they need a replacement person for Mary to love (and who loves her).

I cannot believe they aren't airing part 2 of the finale. What a weird decision.

When Cocktails Were Office Supplies a discussion of the alcohol on Mad Men.

> Carlo Marioni, 65, a New York bartender with more than 40 years’ experience who now works at Pietro’s, agreed: “Those years, for lunch, they used to drink three martinis. Then they’d come back before dinner for rusty nails, white spiders.”

Wow.

I was driven crazy by

Yeah, me too, but by the same token, I like the growth that Mary's sister has shown this season. She's had some bumps and bruises, but she's well on the way to becoming a real adult and the irony is, she's actually becoming more adult than Mary in many ways. But yeah, Jinx really needs to go. I'd like to see her go off to work in a halfway house or something where she's trying to find her own way.

Two and a half hour lunch with three martinis definitely would shorten up the afternoon.

I would be on the floor. I mean, I drink a lot of wine, but I can't the people shown on Mad Men seemed to be at a pretty steady level of intoxication throughout the day, and yet still be productive.

I would need someone to drive me home. As I get older, I have a lower tolerance for alcohol. I just can't do it.

Barb, I see what you mean, but I would argue that things have been too swift with the sister. Her behavior toward the AA counselor was really bad in the beginning and I'm glad the situation is generally rectified, but she still has that attraction to Rafe. I would have preferred slower growth culminating with her beginning a relationship with the AA counselor at the end of the season. I also wanted the AA counselor in the witness protection program and that's how Mary would have been outed to her family about her job!

I would need someone to drive me home.

Commuter train. Wife picks you up at the station. And hands you a Scotch when you get home.

Commuter train.

With a bar car.

With a bar car.

I was born in the wrong era.