>Anyways, I haven’t told the tale of the new coffee machine yet, so I thought I should do that at some point.

A couple of weeks ago, we got a new coffee machine here. The old “coffee” machine made some of the worst tasting coloured water that I have ever had the displeasure of experiencing. Plus, it was a pain in the butt to clean it, and the people who were on the list to clean it never used it, so it didn’t get cleaned that often. As an example, my month (month!) to clean it was July, and it got cleaned 5 times during July (according to the cleaning check-sheet). Of those 5 times, 3 of them were when I was on vacation (for a week.) Plus, I cleaned it twice as often as the person the month before me, and the person after me didn’t clean it at all (note - for those of you too lazy to do the math, I only cleaned it twice, some mysterious benefactor did it the other three times)

Anyways, the new coffee machine is about 1/3 the size of the old one, and the coffee actually tastes like coffee, and it doesn’t need constant cleaning. The way it works is this: User opens sliding drawer. User selects coffee packet from 4 varieties displayed conveniently on top of machine. User puts packet (really a tiny little plastic “cup”) into slot in drawer. User closes drawer, places cup on spot (not marked “X” but you get the idea) User presses button. Machine spits coffee into cup, discards coffee packet. User enjoys coffee flavoured coffee.

It’s pretty neat to see in action anyways, though it does seem a little wasteful. I’ve only tried two of the 4 flavours, and didn’t really care for either of them, but I recognize that lots of people would like those coffees - one was a French Vanilla (which always sounds good to me, but I never like it) and the other was a Dark Roast (again, I don’t like Dark Roast, and this tastes like Dark Roast, so I didn’t like it…) One of these days, I’ll try the plain-jane Colombian coffee, and see how it is. The fourth “flavour” is decaf, which I’ve never really gotten the point of (It’s like drinking near-beer as far as I can see)

Nice try - you’re not getting two Simpson’s quotes today.