I heard that some people suffered strange reactions to the daylight savings time this year.  I don’t know about that, but on Monday I slouched into work and started the coffee, as I have probably hundreds of other times.  But this morning I somehow put in the filter and pressed “Brew” without actually putting the coffee pot in place.  Then I staggered away to check my email.

I came back a few minutes later to find the VP of Sales and another co-worker frantically scooping up and bailing out the coffee as it cascaded onto the countertop, as though they were sailors aboard a submarine in a coffee-filled ocean, and the hull had been breached by a gigantic sugar cube.

I have a couple of justifications I’ve been giving about the incident:

- Studies show that caffeine is good for the countertops; I’m doing my part to protect the integrity of the company’s internal infrastructure.
- It was abstract art. Medium: coffee on countertop.
- I wanted to foster teamwork and cooperation among my colleagues, so that they would join together in service of a common cause.

Regardless, it was worth it to get those extra daylight hours a few weeks early.