Well, I went back to bed and didn't get up again 'til after 2. If this were in December, I'd have gone days by now without seeing sunlight. Yikes.
Via The Truth Laid Bear, I've come across Bibendum. One of today's items involves Mrki, a young bear living near a village somewhere in Bosnia. Seems that Mrki has been all by his lonesome since his mother was killed by hunters. The villagers feed him and "according to locals he is so tame that you can sit down and enjoy a beer with him without fear that he will turn aggressive".
The thing is that Mrki has developed a taste for the sudsy beverage himself, to the point where he's been chugging about 20 cans a day (the locals would leave the occasional partly finished can behind), getting drunk, and partaking in some particularly raucous "singing". The villagers are trying to wean him off the stuff by giving him de-alcoholized beer.
Poor little orphan bear. Almost sounds like a Disney movie. I can see it now -- Bambi II: Rehab.