On May 14, 2014, something tragic happened: the Starbucks near my office that I went to on a daily basis closed down. For renovations, but the point remains that my daily coffee ritual was derailed completely by this development.
Since then, it’s been a daily challenge in trying to find a suitable replacement to my need for caffeine, and I gone from energy drinks, K-cups, to other places’ coffees. The Starbucks is tentatively scheduled to be open again in July, although I’m not going to hold my breath.
The following was my daily chronicling of what I drank each day instead of Starbucks, and in a few rare instances, I got some reprieve: