bad coffee

I make the worst coffee in the world. I challenge any of you to prove me wrong. I'm serious.

I've written about my bad coffeemaking before. I'm starting to drink coffee a bit more these days, partly because I'm doing more writing in coffeeshops. Despite my increased coffee knowledge, I claim no expertise in knowing the finer points of gourmet coffee.

But I know my coffee's bad because it tastes sort of like aspirin. Actually, the last coffee I made tasted like the hot water used to clean out a coffeepot that had been left on the burner until all the (very bad) coffee inside had evaporated away.

I recently complained about my bad coffee to Rand. He suggested cleaning our coffeemaker out with vinegar. I didn't know you were supposed to clean out coffeemakers. Maybe Jeff has already done this, who knows. If I lived alone, I'm sure my coffeemaker would continue to accumulate coffee sludge for years before I thought to do anything about it (and only because I couldn't pry open the lid).

So now I'm following the coffeemaker-cleaning directions and doing the vinegar treatment. I had a terrible craving for fish and chips for a large part of the afternoon.

I'm a MAJOR vinegar fan when it comes to fish and chips. I used to dip my chips in vinegar and suck on them until my lips turned white.

But the vinegar smell is fading in the apartment now, which means it's time to start running plain water through the coffeemaker. Rand guarantees that my coffee will start tasting better.

My concern, however, is how will I know? Hm. I should find one of my hardcore coffee-drinking friends and get them to take me to a really good coffee place so I know what Good Coffee is supposed to taste like.

For now, I guess I'll be happy as long as my coffee doesn't taste like aspirin.

Michelle is coming over so we can work on the story. Too bad she doesn't drink coffee, or I could get her to do the first taste-test. >:-)

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Apologies to those Oscar winners who have not received their prizes yet. With FKO over, I'm getting back into my regular routine and will mail off your pens and write your poems very soon, I promise.

But here's a new challenge for you...identify the filker in the photo at the top of this Blathering. :-)