"Not really," Damon said of drawing a short straw. "There's three of us who can work opens, so we take turns. After this I get two weeks of later shifts." He wasn't crazy about getting up early but he could do it. No big.
The waitress breezed back over with a pot of coffee, and Damon turned over the two nearest cups and filled them. It was Vale Diner's coffee, which he thought was amongst the best in town, so no need to ask if Jake wanted some.
"Not bad, not bad," he said when asked how things were. "Work, fixing up the place, date on Friday." No point in being coy about it. Jake might already know anyway, depending on if Jaime had told Cassi anything. "How 'bout you?"