A few coffee thoughts before I go:

• As I write, it's National Doughnut Day, and shares of Krispy Kreme are up 7 percent, because its quarterly profit more than doubled. Another doughnut chain, which prefers you call it a coffee chain despite the name Dunkin' Donuts, is discussed mostly by men on Twitter and other social media. Starbucks is mentioned slightly more by women and, surprise, people in Washington. Coffee overall is about even between the sexes, all according to Lexicalist. And, Starbucks still hasn't said why it stopped labeling its doughnuts as made by Top Pot.


• In other Starbucks news, a Virginia man says his addiction to the company's coffee contributed to his killing his wife, NBC reports. And the chain settled for an undisclosed amount with a former barista in California who said Starbucks did not protect her from the sex demands of her manager when she was 16, ABC reports. In Seattle, Starbucks continues to give away tickets to various events on Fridays at 2 p.m., no purchase necessary. They run out fast. On June 11, it will be a free child's ticket to the Seattle Aquarium, worth $11 if your kid is over 3.


• Trabant Coffee & Chai will soon carry one of the hottest tickets in coffee, a Nekisse micro-lot selection from Ethiopia, which recently sold for $12 a cup in New York and has appeared for considerably less -- $2.69 a cup -- at Seattle's Fonte Coffee Roaster. Trabant's roaster, 49th Parallel Coffee in Vancouver, is giving all the proceeds from its Nekisse sales to a non-profit called imagine1day to build classrooms in Ethiopia, said 49th Parallel owner Vince Piccolo. Trabant is 49th Parallel's only wholesale customer in Seattle, possibly because the roaster does not have wholesale salespeople. Piccolo said he prefers to focus on sourcing and roasting coffee for the five-year-old company, which nevertheless has hundreds of wholesale customers across North America. The beans cost $30 for 12 ounces online, and Trabant barista Alex Negranza (he of the amazing cocktail) plans to write about it online soon.


• Finally, CoffeeTalk's June issue came out this week, featuring tea. The magazine's Daily Dose e-mail also linked to good news about Brazil's coffee crop.