Buying early is a good idea. I bought salt for the sidewalk a week or two ago. At one grocery store, the couple behind me was buying a whole box of table salt packages because road salt was sold out everywhere...
Programming
I wrested an error message from the site. Unsurprisingly it turned out the problem was a server setting, but knowing what it was meant I could go find a workaround. Now logging in with OpenID works.
I made a list of things I want to fix - most of it is putting instructions, descriptions and pre-emptive FAQs on the page - to get done tomorrow, and if nothing else goes wrong, I expect it can go into alpha-testing tomorrow.
Creative stuff
Tried some portrait sketches playing with lighting, and started work on a 5x7 colourpencil thingy. Unicorn.
Online stuff
Keeping up with traditionalmedia submissions.
have an octopus - have a pretty bird, too