For the last week, week and a half, I've been staying at my BF's place overnight and swinging by Mike's place to pick him up and carpool to work.  Along our way is a (SQUEE) drive-through Starbucks.  Being Seattlites, of course, we stop.  Not everyday (my budget so couldn't afford coffee EVERY day) but often on our drives to work, he orders a caramel macciato and I'll pick up a peppermint latte.

Last night, I stayed at my own house, slept in my own bed, and drove my own way to work; Mike's wife drove him in, but with a caveat.... She's given up Starbucks for Lent.  I wish I had that kind of self-control.  Not knowing this (he usually busses in - the bus stop drops him right across from our local Starbucks), I texted Mike.  Our thread was as follows:

Me: If you are stopping for coffee on your way in, let me know.... I will buy.

Mike: No, sorry.  My wife is giving me a ride to work under the condition that we not stop at Starbucks (she gave it up for Lent).

Me: Aw, sad. OJ it is.

Mike: Yeah, OJ and house coffee.

Me: We could get coffee when you get here if you didn't give it up too?

Mike: Awesome plan.

Me: That's what they pay me for.... always thinking.

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In other news, I was speaking to our other developer, Diego, yesterday on IM; as I've referenced before, Diego is in South America and is a native Spanish-speaker.  Sometimes, we get our wires crossed when we try to speak each others' languages (like my sexual coffee from months ago).  I was trying to tell him to go out and enjoy the sunshine (it's 80 degrees in his neck of the woods)... our conversation went something like this:

Me: Salga y disfrute de la sol!
Me: Wait.  Is the sun male or female (Aside: I was referring to the suffix of the word 'sol', as it was pre-empted by the article 'la' which usually indicates a female noun to follow.  'Sol' looked masculine to me and I got confused.)

Diego: The sun is male.
Diego: The moon is female.
Diego: They had an affair once.

Me: ...

I'm sure there's some sort of folk tale or something behind that (Lol), but I sat there stumped for several seconds.  The moon and sun having an affair?  I guess that's close...Luna, aka Artemis, aka Diana (depending on the era) and Sol, aka Apollo (who retained his Greek name through the Roman era) were twin siblings, son and daughter of Zeus and Leto. Unfortunately, all I can find about an affair is that the sun god got busy with a chick named Chione. 

Sigh. I'll never understand Spanish.