The sun came out yesterday, and stuff started to melt a little bit.

I didn't bother going outside during the day, though, because there wasn't really a point. I just took this picture through the window. Good enough.

I knew we'd have to leave eventually, and we did at around three this morning. Emergency soda and cigarettes run slow, painful walk.

This is the street we didn't make it to on our last walk. It's kindasorta-almost been gone over with something.

And this is actually the part of the street that heads toward the store.

Oh, look, the church lot got all cleared out....

This is the road.

The weird little three-way intersection thingie at the back of the store. If you go straight, there's a big hill. We did not go straight.

This shot and the next are me trying to time things exactly right to get those little blinky things when they're blinking.

I failed.

Not one, but two big city plow trucks drove by. Of course, the blades were up, making them completely useless....

I suspect this was a rather unintentional parking job.

I don't think I managed to get it, but there was actually some steam rising from this hole.

Same thing, but with the flash on instead of off.

Bunny trail. I think.

I'll bet this thing still works okay on the roads....

The church sidewalk isn't as clear as the parking lot. And the snow is above my head in some spots.

Close-up shot of the snow, either regular mode with no flash or low-light mode.

Close-up of same snow, whichever one the first one wasn't.

Third shot of same, but with flash on. And when I say 'flash on', it's the second flash setting, which seems to let me get more depth. Or something.

Like I know what I'm doing here....

It's an untouched snow-covered hill.

A pile of snow that's between me and the road.

A couple of shots of snow-covered plants.

The bike path.

More snow-covered plants. This shot and the next are not-so-great because the settings wheel on my camera turned when I put it away between shots.

Two shots of the same thing. The second is where I noticed that my settings were wrong and fixed it.

I should probably mention that most of the shots were taken on the way back, when I was carrying five pounds of sugar and two 2L bottles of Dr. Pepper in my backpack.

These were in bags that Gremlin carried most of the way home.

I should probably explain....

Okay, we get down there, stop in at 7Eleven for some hot chocolate, wait for about a half hour at VI for Safeway to open, then, well, we worked our way toward Safeway.

Safeway was...well, you ever seen those specials on the SmartPeopleCableNetworks where the big four-legged horned plant-eating thing dies for whatever reason, and the primary predator[s] eat, then maybe it gets taken away by another predator, then the scavenger birds come in, and then the ants and other insects come in? We got there between the birds and the ants. It looked like that.

There was no Coke. None. At all. The store hadn't been able to get shipments since...whenver this started, and there was just no Coke.

I didn't bother taking a picture of the horrible, picked-over and putrefying mess that was the corpse of the Soda aisle. It was sad.

I should probably correct myself -- there were a few bottles of Diet Coke and Coke Zero, and three of these sad little six-packs of '100 Calorie Cans!' I just really hope they actually contain MY Coke, and not some awful low-cal shit, because I might nuke someone if they're all...wrong.

Sure, I said yesterday that I was learning to drink and like coffee, but nothing beats a Coke, for me.

I'm in an awful lot of pain now, but I think that might just make this first pathetic little joke of a can taste so much better....

After the store, we went to the other gas station -- the one with the cheaper cigarettes. While we were there, someone came in asking if all the pumps were out of order. Turns out, the station itself is actually out of gas.

They also only had one carton of Gremlin's preferred brand. So, there's some shortages going on here. Hopefully, they'll be pretty much overwith soon, now that things are starting to melt a little bit, and the city trucks are driving around with their blades up like they're too good for un-lined streets.

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