2004-02-02 01:38 PM CST
Got
a cool new coffeemaker. Like all cool coffeemakers, it allows you to get a cup
of coffee before it's finished brewing. After all, if you didn't need caffeine
now you wouldn't be making a pot of coffee.
This one is special, not because it doesn't have a warmer, but is really a thermos; no it's special because it's CHROME.
So this morning I got up early (9:00 a.m. on Saturday is early) and was going to make the church website look a little better, as it was starting to get cluttered. Can't do that without coffee.
I ate breakfast first (bowl of Raisin Bran Crunch, yum) and poured some filtered water into the maker. Put the coffee into the filter. Start brewing.
Then I got on the computer and checked my email, etc, until I really had to have the coffee. Went back in the kitchen.
Notice in the list above that nowhere do I mention putting the lid on the carafe. If you don't put the lid on the carafe, the valve on the filter basket stays closed... it thinks you are getting a cup of coffee, and it wouldn't want to drip all over the machine.
So nothing went in the carafe. The filter basket tried to hold it, but it won't
hold 6 cups. Best guess is that three cups were on the cabinet. It took me at
least 15 minutes to clean up the mess. I probably could have cleaned it up in
5, but I hadn't had any coffee yet.
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