Stone IPA is very good.

aw man, they installed new firewalls at work and now facebook is blocked. I can sort of get to it on my new phone (while i have 3 free months of internet access) but the interface is crap and the connection is sloooow.

THANK GOD I can still get here and to my email and to IM. How tragic would it be if I could only work at work??!!

In other feh news, I fell on black ice last night and bruised the very tips of my ring and pinky fingers on my left hand. They have like crazy little blood blisters on them. It's horrible! And hurts to type (some...it's not that bad).

Those are my super minor complaints of Thursday morning!

No, that's all TJs. Add careening kids with non-attentive parents on weekend afternoons, as well.

Ha! That's why I take a long lunch and go to TJ's during the week. If I get there before 11:30, I can be in and out in half an hour. Of course, this will probably all change with the new job, and I will have to go on the weekends. Ugh.

Okay, Tim Roth's character in Lie to Me this week? Complete bastardy. And very sweet.

I stopped watching Lie To Me for a while, because Lightman was SUCH an asshole and I don't like the other characters enough to compensate. It's been better lately, I think.

I definitely flirted with him by accident.

Accident? Um, I call fiction.

Code grey might have been unarmed person (congregate) and code silver armed person (disperse).

I got sucked into Grey's Anatomy by their ads during the Superbowl a few years ago, with Isaiah Washington, saying intensely "Tell the hospital we have a Code Black." I just wanted to know what the Code Black was (unexploded rocket/bomb) and I got sucked in. Of course, I'm the weird one who's favorite moment is when two characters are drinking bourbon and the label says "Door River" and it looks exactly like a Knob creek bottle.

On parking: I read a study years ago about people's parking habits in big lots, and it came out, obviously, that driving around and around for a good spot ended up in more time and more stress then just parking wherever. Which is totally obvious when you hear it, and yet?

I park way out in the vacant distance when shopping at large grocery stores or Wal-Mart. I figure the walk and lack of heightened blood pressure will both do me good. (Though I suppose I make up for the latter when I get home with a car full of groceries and do 3 loops around the block looking for a parking space.)

No, that's all TJs. Add careening kids with non-attentive parents on weekend afternoons, as well.

Ha! That's why I take a long lunch and go to TJ's during the week. If I get there before 11:30, I can be in and out in half an hour.

Yup. I just try to go before 3:00 on a weekday, because then I miss the parents who pick up their kids from school and then go to TJs with their progeny in tow.

Hot damn, people - the midwest looks like a scene from Day After Tomorrow and there are 200 posts about Trader Joe's??

Speaking of which, I now desperately want to go to Trader Joe's. And the train that would normally take me right there isn't running in that direction until MAY. (Not that there aren't workarounds, but still. Or I could go to the one at Union Square, but the Brooklyn TJ's is so much bigger and nicer.)

Yeah, I tend to park far away too, because I figure I'm young and able bodied and I can walk that distance and it's probably good for me. But I live in a place where there's always parking, so.

I don't have a TJs. Sadface.

-6 this morning, so it's warmer than yesterday, yay?

Wisconsin got shafted. If Wisconsin gets Miller

Wisconsin should be Leinenkugel. If only because it's so much fun to say.

And Louisiana should be Dixie.

Jessica -- I went to TJs last night, and the shelves were pretty much picked clean -- it looks like the slushpocalypse interrupted their deliveries. It's not worth going today anyway.

Hot damn, people - the midwest looks like a scene from Day After Tomorrow and there are 200 posts about Trader Joe's??

An apocalypse makes us think of yummy food?