Every Friday, as a reward for getting through another week at work, I treat myself to a cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. I know, I know, that might not sound like much of a treat, and our office does have decent enough coffee, but Dunkin’ Donuts has some of the best ordinary, “American” coffee around–not to mention coffee rolls for the rare, occasional beyond-just-coffee treat.

So this morning, I stopped at our local Dunkin’ Donuts for my usual Friday-morning reward and . . . no coffee. No coffee? (Anyone know the tune from “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”?) How is that possible? It’s like Starbucks running out of coffee, or a dry cleaner running out of laundry. It just doesn’t happen! Sigh. So I had to make due with ordinary, office coffee. The only silver-lining is that my stainless-steel thermal mug keeps coffee hot a lot longer than the styrofoam DD cups and it’s really cold today . . . but still!

Then, for added fun, my mother called me around 11:30–her car died. She and Dad were heading for physical therapy and little by little, things stopped working–the windshield wipers, her radio, the lights on the dashboard . . . They luckily got to the office and in a parking spot before the poor Infiniti conked out altogether, but when they called me, they were waiting for the tow-truck. Now, my Dad’s golfing-buddies with the garage owner, so Frank sent the truck over right away, but therapy is about 12 miles away, and there were things Mom needed to do at home, so . . . I drove out to Florham Park to pick up Mom, arriving about 5 minutes after the truck, while Dad went back to the garage to hang out with his buddy while they figure out what’s wrong with the car. Everybody’s best guess is that it’s the battery–the car is just about 4 years old and, did I mention it’s cold outside?? It added a little extra excitement to my day, anyway (grin).

I worked on my pi-are-square shawl last night–it’s taking me about 20 minutes to do a single row right now, and I haven’t even gotten to the last increase yet. I’m happy with the way it’s coming out. I couldn’t take a picture, though, since my camera battery needed recharging . . . and you know, anyway, it’s not easy to take a picture of this shawl while it’s still on the needles!

And thanks, Jessica, for the compliment on my blog. I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

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