Roll with it
Friday, 20 December 2024
The morning routine began as normal: measure water into the electric drip coffee maker, measure ground coffee, assemble machine, poke on-button, watch the blue light illuminate, return to morning fog—wince and check a few headlines.
Cock ear toward pot…hmm. No gurgling. Glance. Yup, there’s the blue light. Wha?
Despite off-on restarting, gentle shaking, etc., still no heat.
Hmm. Plan B.
I dug out our souvenir Moka Pot, and remembered that it always takes a long time (to me) to heat and brew. Still, it did so, and I sipped fine hot coffee. Whew.
I invaded the Guru’s fog with the news…and he sipped the substitute coffee, and surfaced…. By noon we had researched electric coffee makers in our preferred price range, (no, not paying $400 plus tax—or more), and fetched the chosen model home. By one, we’d unboxed, done the two water-only brews to clean the new machine, and had actual coffee brewing.
Serendipity followed by mission accomplished.