If you haven't already bought the vodka, a friend of mine pointed me to a new Canadian brand called Iceberg. It is really really nice and very very very smooth; triple distilled but not the price of Grey Goose or Chopin because it is made here. I think it is the same price as Smirnoff or Absolute. The marketing for it is terrible (their website is entirely Flash) and the bottle looks very plain but I won't buy that expensive stuff ever again.

And yeah, the ride today was much better than I thought it would be. Much warmer than yesterday (I think Tuesday was the coldest wind I have ever felt!) and the cars were very nice, as TJ already pointed out. I only had one close call and it was my arch-nemesis, the white worker van. One day my friend, one day I will catch up to you!