Like Water for Coffee

Happy Valentine's Day to all! Even to those grumps who think the day is a "manufactured" holiday. Aren't they all? Even Christmas, one of our most sacred holidays, is believed to not be the true date of Jesus' birth. Even our months and days are "manufactured," that is, man made. A real month would be one moon cycle, or 28 days. So then only February qualifies as a natural month, and only in non-leap years. Since lack of enthusiasm irritates me, I could go on and on about how some people think looking bored and having no enthusiasm is being cool, sophisicated or grown up. They may be grown ups, but awfully dull and boring ones, I'd say. But, enough of that.

I got up an hour later than normal, it was sweet. It would have been sweeter if I hadn't gotten to bed so late, though, still got only 4 or 5 hours of sleep, like usual. I didn't plug in the jeep and have now found out that it's -10F, so I might be taking the bus to the workshop. Hope not.

My coffee pot made two bad pots of coffee this morning. Even though it's fairly new, I think it's broken. The first pot was like water, so I thought I hadn't counted the spoons of coffee to put in it right. Pot two was even worse and I KNOW I counted the spoons right! AUUUGGHHH. And all of that coffee wasted because it's undrinkable.

It's a bad day to start off with no coffee, as I'm not going in to work (where there is coffee) but to the workshop at the nearby university. I might do a drive through McD's to get some of their coffee. It's really very good, have you tried it? Normally I try to stay away from that place and have done that successfully for quite a while now.

I worked late last night to make up for the fact that I'll be gone all day today. Well, it won't really make up for it, but at least I got a couple more things done that couldn't wait until tomorrow. And wasn't I not going to rant about stuff that irritates me anymore (the first paragraph) oh well, too late. Have a wonderful, exciting, happy, Valentine's Day!