My alarm clock idea backfired a bit in that the smell of the freshly ground coffee kept me awake as much as the freshly brewed coffee helped me get up in the morning resulting in the total effort of moving my butt out of bed being approximately the same.
So, I was faced with the option of either putting the coffee maker back in the kitchen (and giving up the counter space I had freed up) or buying a coffee maker that grinds the beans in the morning.
The only down side (thus far) is that the coffee maker uses a fan to move the coffee grounds into the filter area and it sounds like a largish hair dryer. I worry a bit that I might develop a Pavlovian response where I salivate in anticipation of coffee when I hear a hair dryer and someone might mistake the salivation for a strange fetish (and that would just be false advertising).
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(Ok, I'm not really worried about it, I've just been looking for a convoluted reason to post that link)
Posted by matt at September 15, 2003 11:17 PM