TEN YEARS OF DUCKHUNTING!!! Last Saturday, October 25, marked ten years since I first discovered Duck Donuts at the Stonefield shopping centre in Charlottesville. I fell in love from the first bite. Soon thereafter, I resolved to eat a doughnut from every location.

At 53, I am waaaay more mature and generally less prone to rash decisions... BUT NOT ENTIRELY Which is why I made the snap, possibly reckless, decision to run a SECOND 5K RACE tomorrow. First race at 9 am, second race at 3 pm (if I don't injure myself during the first).

NO KINGS protests occurring all day today, Saturday, October 18th! Look up your area, and you might still be able to make it out to one.

Starbucking in Ontario last weekend, but unfortunately too late to pick up this store in Sudbury, which closed during the recent Decimation. This is just one of two dozen stores lost to me, and I expect more because it is not a conωenient time for me to tour the continent.

Wishing that Starbucks had remembered this last week before they laid off thousands of partners with almost no notice!!!

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... Map of the 24 just-closed US/CA Starbucks that I never managed to get to because most were barely a year old. This loss represents the greatest number of North American stores that I have missed at the same time since the pandemic.

The only reason Starbucks' closure of over 600 North American stores in the past year is NOT unprecedented is because they did the same thing in 2008-2009. Then they forgot the lesson that they should have learned.

starbuckseverywhere.net/StarbucksPos... List of over 400 probable Starbucks closures compiled as of Saturday afternoon.

I waited a day so that I would not post a hot take, but after really thinking about it, Starbucks' sudden closure of hundreds of stores after giving their partners only a couple of days notice, if that, ranks towards the top of the ****tiest things that the company has ever done.

My 20,300th Starbucks, in Souderton, PA, in another increment on the long road to 21K and comes nearly eight months after 20K. Because I'm focusing on work, saving, and minimising driving, my pace this year has been glacial, and 21K might not even come until 2027.

Ugh, I only had coffee from six Starbucks today, plus Square One in Lancaster, and yet I've not managed to get to sleep after THREE HOURS of trying. Additionaly, I've used the restroom half a dozen times.

After 22 years, my first ever seven-tile parallel in an officially rated Scrabble game, my play of A(N) TINODE next to A(D)EnOMAS. I might never do this again.

Feels like I've been hearing about Narcan forever, but I've never actually seen the product until today, inside the loo at a coffeehouse in Akron.

FINALLY, THE FILM I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS TO SEE!!!

please google "starvation in gaza"

If the worst thing that happened to you today was that you could not identify a particular Taylor Swift song, then you're not doing too bad, and you might be living your life right.

The recent closure of the Starbucks at 1st & University in Seattle, spurred me to do some analysis, and the results are shocking. In Seattle, the city where Starbucks originated, there are now only 18 company-operated stores in the city centre, while 47 have closed.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_... Oh wow, I only just now realised that I have an entry on IMDb (at the bottom of my Wikipedia page)!

SEND ME POSITIVE WIBES, FRIENDS!!! After 24 rounds of one of the year's premier Scrabble events, I sit in 5th play, one game out of the lead, with eight rounds to play on Sunday. Can I do this?

www.visir.is/g/2025274703... FINALLY!!! I've literally been hoping for decades that Starbucks would give me a reason to travel to Iceland.

starbuckseverywhere.net/CaymanIsland... STARBUCKING IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS!!! With this wisit to the island's two Starbucks, I bring my total Starbucking countries to 72, and I have now been to all Caribbean countries with Starbucks except for Turks and Caicos.

If you are paid a fair wage to perform a job that you enjoy, take a moment to give thanks because you're better off than much of the planet.

fiftyfifty.one Reminder that today will see hundreds of NO KINGS protest throughout the United States. You can use this website to look up an event in your area and then do your part to move this country towards a tipping point of opposition to Trump's policies.

A little-known fact about Starbucking is the post-tour detoxing. After two weeks of heavy caffeine, including 23 Starbucks this past weekend alone, plus one indie, I return to Rochester to endure headaches and discomfort as I reduce my intake to a normal level.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE When you start watching the latest, nearly-three-hour, film do two pushups. After 10 minutes, do four. Then six, eight, ten, and so on, every 10 minutes adding two more. Can you keep the streak going for the entire film?

My 20,200th Starbucks, 104 Jay Street in Brooklyn, another step on the slow road to 21K.

Every time a Taylor Swing song plays, and I cannot identify it, I die a little inside.

Well, this is a first! For two decades I've been calling new Starbucks to werify that if/when they opened, and when I called the new Elgin store, the barista who answered was named Winter!!!

I was able to reference the Lorax in a work meeting. My day is complete.

FYI the illegal deportation of actual U.S. citizens, born in this country, has begun. Look it up.

I wrote about the Coffee People for Palestine fundraiser, and whether it will be enough to jolt the industry out of its moral slumber. #CoffeeSky @davidsrabbithole.bsky.social www.thepourover.coffee/fundraiser-g...

about.starbucks.com/stories/2025... This really irks me because it's just greenwashing. Starbucks in the U.S. is egregiously wasteful and has no intention of reducing waste at the expense of throughput. If they were serious, they would discourage drive-thrus and end paper/plastic cups.

TIL that most of the Starbucks in Aruba are under a holding company named MetaCorp. I'm not joking. Seriously, MetaCorp.

EARTH DAY CHALLENGE This is a "passive challenge", in the sense that you don't have to do anything but read, watch, or listen to news reports and analysis. The goal is to track how many times some discussion about climate change points our that population is a factor.

If we use "great suffering or injustice as our metric ", it not hard to argue that the United States is now a dystopia.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBR... 'The Handmaid's Tale' returns today for its final series, and I truly wonder if the Trump supporters who watch this are completely blind to the reality that many in the Trump camp would absolutely turn the United States into Gilead if they could.

Honestly have doubts that protesting will save the United States--this country might already be lost. But I cannot live with myself if I do nothing.

Any of y'all participating in one of today's Day of Action protests?

Looking forward to enjoying all that delicious home-grown American coffee once the tariffs kick in!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u... Imagine if you, or someone you loved, or a friend, a legal resident of the United States, were deported to a foreign prison, possibly forever. Do Trump supporters have the capacity to understand how horrific this is?

Somebody at work has left a carton of eggs in the refrigerator, and I gotta admit that I'm tempted.

www.instagram.com/p/DHwW9A6St2... Even though I personally eschew McDonald's, I approve of this guy's passion!

I honestly believe that if Starbucking ever gets made into a streaming series, the writers could come up with an absolutely hilarious episode in which the lead character spends the entire time on the phone trying to find out if a new Starbucks has opened.

As Starbucking approaches its 28th year, I've been called countless things, and my favourite has to be "urban legend", by a barista in the UK, sometime in the aughts.

Trump is arguably a boogeyman, aka the Baba MAGA.

53 years old today, yet still capable of a 15-mile run, after 10 yesterday and 8 Tuesday for a total of... 53 km

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Hey folks, if you want to stick it to Zuckerberg (Meta), buy this book! He DOES NOT want people to read the book, and Meta is blocking author Sarah Wynn-Williams from any discussion or promotion, but the rest of us can still raise awareness and buy it.

Hey waitaminute... IF Trump is allowed to run for a third term in 2028, then by extension Barack Obama should be allowed to run as well, right?