Got tired of paying a $1+ for coffe every morning (and on refills during cooler weather), so I sprung for a decent coffee maker ($30.00) with one of those auto-brew timers for the morning. And, I bought some decent coffe to put in it, and a thermos big enough for a couple of refills during the day. So now I’m getting coffee I actually enjoy, and I’m saving money, too.
By my math, it’ll pay for itself in about 2 months.
In other news, I damned near cold-cocked myself with a pair of stereo headphones. I was stretching them out to put them on when the left hand earset slipped out of my hand, bonking me a good one on the forehead.
Stars, pretty pretty lights, blue language, and a quarter-sized goose-egg just over my left eyebrow. Ouch.
mrAru takes 2 thermoses of coffee to work every day - there is no free coffee where he works, just some canteen place and it is neither that good nor inexpensive.
Ugh, I’ve lived in my new apartment for almost three months now, and still have not bought myself a coffee maker. Even though I only drink one or two cups a day, this is probably a mistake.
I’m pregnant and my boyfriend thinks that coffee will kill the baby or something, so I guess that’s why I haven’t bought one yet. I bought some coffee, though. I’ve been brewing it in a pot.
Yes, I do end up drinking a lot of coffee grounds. Why do you ask? =/
The corner gas station used to give free refills. Buy one of their cups, or bring in your own, and coffee was free. Then after the 2008 crash they started charging for refills, citing the bad economy. So I’d pay my 97¢. Why not? It’s convenient, and they had the cheapest gas for 20 miles. Only then the place was sold. Gas wasn’t quite as cheap. When the coffee refill suddenly cost $1.05 with tax, I stopped going there. I’m not paying more than a dollar for 16 oz. of joe. I’ve noticed their gas costs the same as everyone else’s now.
So I make coffee in the morning (or before I go to bed, and set the timer) and have me Trader Joe’s French Roast or Dark Roast or Café Special from New Orleans, and there’s some left for roomie when she gets up. I drive the 20 miles and get off the freeway and get my fuel at Arco for a significant saving.
The baby tried to knock me out tonight. Head-butted me right at the edge of/underneath the brow bone. I hope I grabbed the ice pack soon enough to avoid a black eye, since I have to work tomorrow, and I have a family reunion Sunday. ( And I had a doozy of a shiner just a few weeks ago, thanks to a concussion - the bruise sort of oozed its way down from my hairline over the course of 2-3 weeks. My husband got lots of suspicious glares while I recuperated from that one! :smack:)
I bought a new French press just a couple of months ago, after my son broke 3! in the space of about 2 months. And I had just rehomed my drip pot, since I never used it.
Seems to be a head injury and coffee themed summer.
I didn’t drop them, I was spreading them to slip them back over my ears when the left-hand ear piece slipped from my left hand and caught me right above the left eye.
As you can see, there’s not a lot of foam cusion around the outside, just hard plastic. How it turned in my right hand to hit me with the plastic instead of foam, I don’t know. Must be a localized distortion of space around my dense head.
John: The “corner station” where I live used to be the same way until they jacked up the price. There’s a QT right by our office, and the lead guy for the day shift knows me as a “regular,” so he’d wave me by on refills, but he’s been charging me for the refills now, too.
I stayed safe for my first coffee buy, going with Folgers “Black Silk” dark roast on my sister’s recommendation. Not bad at all. I developed a taste for Kona last winter when the QT had it as a “seasonal promo,” so that might be next up on my “to get” list.
