All work and no play makes Monk a dull boy...

Top 5 ways Monk has kept his sanity while spending the last week buried in orders.

1) Motorhead, at high volume.
2) Really, really good whiskey
3) The occasional sweet girl showing up at the Abbey bearing gifts of food, whiskey and kisses.
4) Homemade pot roast
5) The knowledge that I'd rather spend a weekend working doing something I believe in than spend 40 hours trapped in a cubicle sweating over TPS reports.

Like the saying goes, it is better to rule in hell than be a prisoner in heaven.