I hope the rest of Sunday goes better for everyone. I have a houseguest coming tomorrow to stay the week, and I have this long list of stuff that has to get done before she arrives, so I need to get up and go start on that.

Oh no, lots of woe here in b.org this morning. Hugs to Scola, and sympathies to ita and msbelle for the upteen gazillionth frustration.

Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their drinking seriously.

Okay, my this is my skewed Midwestern viewpoint speaking here, but that just seems so strange. Wouldn't you expect more bars than grocery stores?

This exchange makes me laugh. I think brenda that perhaps in places, like here I'm guessing, where grocery stores outnumber bars, many of the said grocers are small corner markets, not great big supermarkets.

And I hear there are places where grocery stores SELL liquor (at least beer and wine) so that has to skew results a bit, too.

oh you crazy MA people.

Grocery stores in GA sell beer and wine, but not on Sundays. We shop on Sundays, which is probably good for the budget, waistline, and general level of boozing it up in the house, but it can be annoying.

Jamaican Musher to Compete in Iditarod

The Iditarod dogsled race begins this Saturday in Anchorage, Alaska and spans 1,100 miles. 27-year-old Newton Marshall is among the 70 entrants and will represent his home country, Jamaica. Marshall used to train in Jamaica on a wheeled sled pulled by stray dogs from the local shelter. He now trains in Alaska with world-class sled dogs.

Singer Jimmy Buffett is among Marshall’s strongest supporters. “He’s absolutely a hero to kids in Jamaica,” Buffett said.

Buffett’s Margaritaville restaurants are key sponsors for Marshall’s dog-sled team, and the famed songwriter says he did not hesitate to back Marshall after learning of his story. Buffett first heard of the Jamaican after meeting Danny Melville, who runs a family-owned tour business in Jamaica where Marshall was employed as a guide.

“I thought from the beginning it was just very cool what he was doing,” Buffett said. “I thought it was so far out there, but it made people smile when they heard about it.”

Grocery stores in GA sell beer and wine, but not on Sundays. We shop on Sundays, which is probably good for the budget, waistline, and general level of boozing it up in the house, but it can be annoying.

When I lived in Atlanta I used to work until near midnight on Sundays, and when I'd stop at the local convenience store on the way home, there'd be a line waiting for the clock to tick over to Monday.

Grocery stores in GA sell beer and wine, but not on Sundays.

Groceries and convenience stores sell beer and wine here in Virginia, but I don't know if they sell them on Sunday. I should go try to buy a beer and find out.

eta Blue laws are weird.

Blue laws that mean you can sell at 12:01 Monday morning are really weird. Did no one in the legislature ever have a 21st birthday??

IIRC in NC you could buy wine and beer in the grocery store on Sundays after 12:00. Which occasionally led to us dilly-dallying around the grocery store at 11:45.