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May 28, 2009
Toys
I have two new toys this month. Yes, I gave in to the blandishments of the iPhone (and two years of being offered one for Christmas!). I also have a coffee maker so complicated I needed to read the instructions - also a gift.
I am finally beginning to love the iPhone. Tonight I downloaded the Google app and tried the voice activation. I searched for "Cranky Professor." On the first try I got "Assessor." Oh, well. The second try got me here. AND I have reception in Houghton House, which I never had with my previous phone (which the local AT&T folks assured me was the phone's fault, not theirs).
When I left my subletters instructions I told them the coffeemaker was on its last legs. It died while I was gone, as they informed me by email. One of my friends, a woman who manages to always win a prize if she buys a raffle ticket but won't buy a lottery ticket so we can retire and cultivate our gardens brought me a Cuisinart DGB-900 coffee maker. She's a tea drinker and had won it in a raffle.
Some of you may remember my struggles with my Mother's demon-possessed Cuisinart. This one, so far, is a Christian coffee maker. It does do grinding, but you don't need to clean the grinder assembly more than once a week! The filter assembly is bizarro and makes clicky noises while it adjusts itself - but so far, so good!
Best of all - it has a 12 cup (you know, coffee cups, not real cups) capacity! I may have to buy one for Mother for Christmas.
Yes, I see that the picture is sideways. I'd reorient it, but you might have noticed that I am not blogging assiduously lately. I'm actually more interested in getting back to Beryl Smalley's Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (a work with a synoptic scope - I don't think it has been replaced yet, and certainly not by anything nearly so readable) than figure out what I've done wrong here. I think that's probably a good thing.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 28, 2009 7:45 PM
Comments
A spaceship coffee maker, and a Christian coffee maker at that! I get a little put off when appliances start getting named with letters and numbers like a luxury car. Why can't the coffee maker be named Ralph or Dominick, even Cassandra.
Personally, I drive a Sunbeam 1960's percolator. You could probably run over it with a truck and it would still make coffee. Just like a car, if it's paid for and it runs I'm sticking with it. If the old Sunbeam dies I'll consider that Christian coffee maker.
As for me, I love the sideways orientation of the photo.
Posted by: Suzanne, the Farmer's Wife at May 29, 2009 9:10 AM