I'm on a beta blocker and a calcium channel blocker and might remain so forever. I've come to terms with it because a stroke seems worse than drugs forever.

I'm baking a seven ingredient cake because the place where I normally get cupcakes is closed or is moving or something.

I'm teaching a new course (11th grade contemporary comp/american lit). We're gearing up to read Their Eyes Were Watching God and I needed a dvd to prep them (Zora Is My Name). The closest place that had it on DVD was West Hollywood. Damn, that is a pretty library.

New 1/2" beltsander is a hit. It's gonna make these spindles get DONE.

And now I have my eye on another sander, for detail work. On sale even!

Damn you, Harbor Freight! I gave in and signed up for their discount/coupon program, corporate tracking bedamned.

It would be crazy to go to Trader Joe's tomorrow, wouldn't it? I forgot about the Superbowl and now I have no groceries and no open FreshDirect delivery slots. (And there's a TJ's across the street from the Y where the kids have swim class in the morning.)

Early enough in the morning might be ok, I dunno. Weekends at mine are always insane, but if I go before 11, it usually isn't too bad or bombed out.

I've learned to park one level up in the mall parking lot adjacent to the TJs lot (not even across the street! "No Parking for Trader Joe's, Pier 1, Balley's Fitness" WHATEVER HOW CAN THEY TELL) and avoid the hell that is the SUVs and obnoxious entitled people who apparently will circle for 20 minutes and try to run over pedestrians for a spot within 25 yds rather than take the stairs and walk across the lot. I hates them. I don't understand them. They make their own hell.

Oh, I didn't even think of that! I was totally going to go to TJ's tomorrow. Eh, I'll roll the dice -- as I've probably mentioned, nothing in Boston ever seems that crowded to me.

If it is an option, go once the game has started! Give 'em a chance to restock.

Yeah, I was gonna say, go during the game and no problem.

If it is an option, go once the game has started! Give 'em a chance to restock.

Before the Puppy Bowl was a thing, I used to grocery shop during the Super Bowl. The store was DEAD, and as long as you didn't want chips, dip, or beer, the shelves were stocked.

TJ's was nuts this afternoon. But it often is on Saturday.

I would go during the game, but the time I'm going to be near a grocery store is tomorrow around 10 in the morning. Oh well.