There's Your Brain, and There's Your Brain on the Internet. Any Questions?

It started out innocently enough; I woke up, rolled over, and grabbed my phone. I checked Facebook first, and that was all I needed.

Oh, look! Michelle invited me to a Holiday Sip-n-Shop! What is this about? How much alcohol is involved? Nice! Get all your holiday shopping done in one place while you enjoy a glass of wine! It sounds like fun, but I don’t think I’m available that day.

Oh, look! Facebook generously lists similar venues at the bottom of the page!

(How much alcohol is involved?)

I do like craft fairs (and alcohol, duh), and it’s always nice to go to at least one during the holidays.

Then I started to think about my daughter, that she would enjoy something like that – minus the alcohol, of course. So I kept looking.

 (I do think of my kids once in a while.)

And I scrolled too far and reached the pictures posted by the BaHa Brothers’ Sandbar Grill – the host location of Michelle’s event. Of course, I forgot all about her when I saw this picture of a chalkboard.

As small as it was, and as tiny as the writing on it was, my eyes immediately zoomed in on one thing: my name.

PseudoSue? You know I had to look that up!

It’s beer!

Another beer with my name on it? I found my first one in Tupelo, MI in 2013.

Yazoo Sue. I got it at The Lost Pizza Co. (I found it.) I still have the bottle.

Yazoo. It fits.

Apparently, Pseudo Sue is a beer that, according to Wikipedia, was named after the “largest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found … discovered by Sue Hendrickson … and named after her.”

(And this I found funny, because two of my childhood nicknames - thanks to my last name - were ‘Susie Dinosaurus’ and 'Roulusonis Rex'.)

After that – my kids totally forgotten – I was on a quest to find local liquor stores that carried it.

Oh! Total Wines and More in Natick carries it! Why does that name sound familiar? I remember! I drove a party bus one day, and the people I picked up needed to stop for alcohol. The funniest thing was being parked right in front of the door with the bus doors open and all the party lights on – every adult who walked out of the store looked at the bus like a kid looks at a candy store –

Whoa! Way off-topic, Susie. Let’s reel it back in.

According to Google, my closest liquor store is Total Wines and More, in either Natick or Everett. I made a mental note to call the three liquor stores near me and ask them if they can get it. I want to try it.

I need that can.

And – Poof! – just like that, an hour was gone.

Thank you, Michelle, and Facebook … and the internet.

Remember what Smokey said: “Only YOU can keep your kids off the internet.”