Insomnia is the new 401(k). Middle of the night Twittering will be our downfall. Kara Thrace is the harbinger of doom.

Another sleepless night and a early morning mental debate of “whether to put the coffee on” or lie here for another three or four hours. On my Twitter feed, @Mr_Darling (another recent insomniac) tells the world he’s headed to his local Safeway. It is 6:08am. Since I was going to go to the store sometime today anyway, I decide to do the same. I get dressed and head out, whether the morning rush is already in swing but the sun hasn’t crested the cloud-laden horizon yet. I take my sunglasses just in case I will want them on the walk back.

Of course, the Safeway is devoid of customers. I think there were only a handful of us in there; most of the cars in the parking lot were undoubtedly employee-owned. Restocking of shelves and buffing of floors, however, is in full swing.

I grab my usual basketful of groceries and head home, passing people who are headed the opposite direction towards the Metro on their way to work. I get home around the same time that, three months ago, I would have been catching the bus outside and undoubtedly already complaining about my commute.

But now I have milk for my morning coffee, and after breffus I’m going to start making sauce. Crushing garlic and chopping onions before 8:00am, why not?

Purchase: $33.54
EBT Card Balance: $156.21
Club Card Savings: $11.00 (25% of purchase)

QUICK UPDATE: Mode Project, the same design team that created Obama’s iconic “O” campaign logo, is credited with designing the recovery.gov logo along with a great new Dept o’ Transpo’ project logo. Thanks @katkatkatbobat!

I present these three screenshots.

These originate from the iPhone game KERN, which is kinda fun to play. It’s a speed/timing game that possibly draws more on your eye+hand coordination than it does actual kerning letters but it’s still fun to play. And the game looks great too, obvy built with a designer’s eye.

There was a grammatical typo in the Rules page (1), for which the update was issued. The update (2) says “Fixes an errant apostrophe which caused a fair amount or (sic) typographical embarrassment for our designer. Please accept this upgrade as our apology.” First of all, don’t apologize for having a typo in a sentence where there is a typo. Second, back to the point: as you can see in (3), the apostrophe from “it’s” in line two has been removed to its correct spelling, “its”, after the update. But a typographical problem still remains. Can you spot it in (3)?