Uncle Biek

Remember me saying this the other day:

“… fire up my trusty Senseo® coffee machine which, by the way, will need to be replaced soon after many, many years of loyal service”

Well, today I found out that it may not be as bad as it looked. Better yet, my coffee machine seems to be its old self again and now only leaks just a few drops instead of say, oh, half a cup … :-) And the magic substance that fixed it all is called ‘water’. Yes, I know, that sounds very familiar and you may indeed have heard of it before.

What I did was take the thing apart as far as possible without tools (not including brute force) and let it soak in water with soap for roughly a day and a half while getting my kicks from a few cups of tea instead.

This evening I reassembled it again in a way that would have made Johnny Five proud and, voila, uncle Biek can enjoy a good cup of coffee again. My coffee machine’s second life also saves me the trouble of looking through the entire line of Senseo® coffee machines they have now and choosing a worthy successor for it.

Have a nice evening, I know I will!

You ever drink your coffee hot, or warm even? Somehow I ever so often manage to let my coffee get stone cold. Or, and I’m still not sure which is worse, I even completely forget to get it from the machine.

Example: I’m behind my computer, feel the need for some more coffee, get up and fire up my trusty Senseo® coffee machine (which, by the way, will need to be replaced soon after many, many years of loyal service) and let it make me a cup of coffee. Now, instead of waiting for it to become ready, because that takes a whopping forty seconds of pure internet time, I walk back to the PC to do some more fiddling and plan on picking it up in a second or two.

I feel some of you can see where this is going …

Anyway, after half an hour or so, I ‘again’ feel like having some coffee. So I walk over to the machine only to see that last cup I made still standing underneath the machine, patiently awaiting its retrieval. Sigh …

Sometimes, however, things do go slightly better because then I actually manage to pull myself together and wait until the coffee is done, take it with me to my desk and then forget to drink it, having it go cold just the same.

I think overall that around eighty percent of my coffees get cold before I think of drinking them. Tea is a different story because that comes in a mug so because of the sheer volume you have then it takes longer to cool down. Besides, cold tea isn’t all that bad to drink anyway whereas coffee looses all its charm when it’s cold.

Have a good weekend folks, and drink it warm!

From my second home in the mountains (ok ok, so maybe not from there exactly :-) I wish you guys all the best for you and your families. I hope everyone got through the evening safely and can still remember most of it tomorrow. *grin*

Have a great two thousand and nine folks!