Chocolate-Filled Crunchy Things would be a good name for a cereal.

TJ's does excellent samosas and spanakopita. I cannot weigh in on much else, though.

That reminds me: I should totally go to TJ's tomorrow. I am shamefully low on food in the house.

Very small girl walking around in shoes that make squeaky toy sounds - adorable!

After an hour, I'm sure some of the adorable wears off.

TJ's does excellent samosas and spanakopita.

Their spanakopita is on regular rotation in our house. Hell, half of what we eat is Trader Joe's. One of my favorite quick TJs meals is to sear some scallops (which don't HAVE to be from TJs, but mine are) and serve them over TJs Thai Lime Rice, with some of the Bean So Green veggie mix on top. Good stuff.

(Tonight's non-TJ-based dinner is grilled cheese and tomato soup. Did you know it's COLD out there? That calls for grilled cheese and tomato soup, definitely. It's merely a bonus that that's the one meal I can get Tim to cook.)

So, it's like you could have 10 houses in a row, but houses 1, 2 and 7 are on one fuse; house 3, 4 and 6 are another fuse, etc. And you can end up with patchy neighborhoods, where 10 out of 20 houses are served by the same substation, but the other 10 are served by another substation?

In an urban area, those houses probably get power from at least two substations, because there are interconnections for redundancy. If something takes out some of the interconnections, the power can reroute in ways that don't seem logical. It also could be that one set of houses is on one transformer and the other set is on another. What's hard to visualize is that electricity goes where it's sucked, while things like water go where they're pushed. If something is asking for power, the electricity will try to get there. (Yes, I'm blithely ignoring physics.)

Water can be sucked too, actually. The dynamics of pressure in the pipes are important. (The things you learn, living with a hydrologist for 15 years.)

Seen on Facebook: floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. I may have swooned.

Wow. We're closed tomorrow too: due to the extreme cold.

Hell, half of what we eat is Trader Joe's.

Tonight, I will be having Trader Joe's Orange Chicken over Trader Joe's Organic Brown Rice with a Trader Joe's Chicken Egg Roll on the side.

I wish we were closed tomorrow. Actually, today's snow day was the first one I've ever experienced in the 18+ years I've worked at this company. We've had days when they sent us home early, but they've never told us not to come in at all before now. The 1999 storm that dumped a few inches more than today was mostly on a Saturday, so the work schedule wasn't affected.

Dinner tonight was scrambled eggs--I was feeling lazy. Put in pepper, garlic salt, and a mixture of green herbs from Penzey's (thyme, sage, and a bunch of other stuff), cooked it so that it was still pretty moist, and yumminess resulted.