Slippery roads and bad traffic

I'm having dinner at Elephant Bar while waiting for the miserable traffic out there to clear up, on this snowy icy evening. I can't imagine dealing with this stop-and-stop traffic, to go visit K in hospital.

The Google Maps Traffic looked horrendously bad, red-and-black everywhere, so I tried a new approach to getting here from work: driving only on side streets, and through neighborhoods, crossing the major thoroughfares only at traffic signals. This technique turned out to be wildly successful, avoiding a whole lot of traffic jams. I'll have to remember that for the future.

Now I'm trying out the MyCharge battery backup gadget that I picked up for $29 at Walgreens over Christmas. Seems to be working great: my phone battery's gone from 29% to 70% in the time it took to order and wolf down my dinner!