If I’m awakened by grinding coffee beans, Mrs. Plant will have to get me off the ceiling with one of those tranquilizer dart guns that Marlin Perkins uses on wildebeests.
So set it to go off during your usual shower time - less chance of you hearing it, and then mm, fresh coffee waiting for you right after the shower!
I require fresh coffee in an autoinjector, usually a large vein in my thigh.
Ours just died, and it died a lot more quietly than yours did. Got a new one at Sears for $99. One good thing, you’re not captive to the maker of any type of pod. Bad thing - you have to clean the grinder every time. But it’s worth it to make from beans.
Mine sounds like a jet ready to take off. But better, since I’m not strapped into some center seat with my knees somewhere around my ears.
I have no doubt that there may have been some build up in the coffee maker. I have no idea when I cleaned it last. But I have no intention of doing a post mortem on the machine, I’m not risking turning it on again. It seems like coffee makers only last a few years anyway. My last one, a Mr. Coffee, sprung a leak after a year.
Wile E, it could be worse–I once had a roommate with a toaster that occasionally liked to *electrocute *bread instead of toasting it.
I was once told by some Filipinos that they called the rheum that accumulates in your eyes overnight ‘morning glory.’ It was some time before I could keep a straight face long enough to explain why I found that funny.