Some Thursday, some Friday, and a GIP: "Offices are why"

[azurelunatic]

http://community.livejournal.com/hd_holidays/95394.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/10/super_soaker_nasa_boffin_heat_engine_solid_state/ -- waste heat!

We have taken to referring to the Fresh & Easy grocery stores that have suddenly popped up all over Phoenix as "Cheap & Easy". I blame hcolleen. We went grocery shopping today (Thursday) after work, yay. Brought home spinach. Mmm, tasty.

Friend of mine did a poll a little while back on what vices would be picked up and/or exercised in the coming year. Since then, there have been daily posts with a vice checklist. The entire concept amuses me, and the implementation has me in an extreme state of hilarity.

http://xkcd.com/369/

GIP: "Offices are why big people get grumpy, and say bad words." I feel dirty now, but I love the picture and the caption, so I had to put it together and have it.

Went to bed at a reasonable hour. Woke up at another reasonable hour, got caught up a bit, then had a morning nap. I think today is going to be charmingly unproductive.

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[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

We've got "Fast 'n Easy Marts" around us. We've referred to them as "Fast 'n Sleazy Marts" ever since the time we saw hookers outside of one.

[azurelunatic]

Heh.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

The Fresh & Easy stores are the U.S. version of Tesco stores (Tesco is a British grocery chain). Basically, they are the Super WalMarts of Europe.

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

When we ended up back in Bratislava, Slovakia at the end of our honeymoon, we got hopelessly lost because the map we had was hopelessly out of date.

We headed towards what we thought might be the center of town and all of a sudden I shouted, "THAT'S *OUR* TESCO!" And indeed, it was!


(For the first 3 days of our honeymoon, we rested and jet-lagged in Bratislava and had to go to Tesco 4 or 5 different times to pick up "necessities" that had been surrendered at various airport security checkpoints as well as foodstuffs.)

[azurelunatic]

*giggle*

[azurelunatic]

Aha!

[wibbble]

Well, in the UK at least they're definitely not at the walmart level. That's ASDA, which as it goes, was bought by walmart a while back.

elance says they're equivalent, in terms of the market they're aimed at, to 'regular Safeway stores', 'Albertson's', or 'Frys'.

On ubiquitousness, though, you might be right.