Napkin Filter Day #2

As I type my second batch of coffee being brewed with the new napkins and the lid flipped up is happening. I am hoping to get a better pot this day as yesterday morning I didn’t fold the napkin down, I just kind of stuffed it in the grounds container (have no idea what the name of “it” is, but it’s the part where you put the coffee grounds) I hear the water dripping…If I wasn’t typing my fingers would be crossed…stay tuned for the next part of Days of Our Coffee…

I feel a kindred connection with Robin Crusoe…

Lesson 100-and-something:  Don’t make a crevice out of the napkin.  Stuffing it works better.  If you fold the napkin it makes too much of a syphon causing a break in the “homemade filter” which doesn’t prevent the grounds from spilling into the pot.  I had to use a strainer over my cup in order to pour the liquid.  It still tasted like coffee, I just had to add a step…

Oh, and if you’re wondering why I don’t have filters yet…just don’t go there…not a good topic…yeah, just imagine that I’m Grimes in Black Hawk Down…that will should explain…

A story worth while…

Bhutto has been killed.  I don’t know why this bothers me.  Watching the news report tears actually streamed down my face.  She was hope for her country and terrorists killed her.  Some misguided suicide bomber took at least 20 other lives during the attack. 

News.  This is breaking.  The anguished faces, the chaos and sirens, voices and pictures depicting the fallen hero of Pakistan.  The United States government supported her efforts and the Pakistani government promised to protect her. 

Is there no peace throughout the world?  I suppose there has never been, we live in a fallen universe. 

My life has come to a screeching halt!

For the past few days our household has been absent of one minor necessity.  Coffee filters.  I have tried everything!  Paper towels, napkins, clothe…to no avail.  I have not been able to taste a decent cup of coffee in days.  My heart is yearning here people, yearning.  In addition to the problem is the mess my experiments have made.  Coffee granules have erupted all over the back-splash, the counter and even on top of the pot!  I think they have managed to plug my whole pot, and if that happens then I will be without a coffee pot altogether!  What will I do then?  That would be disastrous! 

NEW DEVELOPMENT! 

I am right now drinking a fresh cup o’ java that was brewed (oh, yes, it’s true) right out of my own pot!  I literally jumped for joy after my first sip.  “It tastes like coffee, it tastes like coffee!” Then I realized it’s 4:00 in the morning and I am all by myself so I felt a little foolish…but that’s not what is important.  The real issue here is that I am drinking my first liquid caffeine drink in days.  Days people, days!  My experimentation finally led me to remove the top of the actual pot which allowed the liquid to drip through faster therefore putting a halt to the dam that was created from using other apparatus then a “filter”.   

Wow.  I can’t even believe I made it through.  It was tough, but I did it.   

Misspelled words

Sometimes while reading through old posts I oftentimes find words misused and misspelled.  Oh!  Big smack on the head!  What was I thinking? Practicing writing is like pulling my fingernails out with pliers at times!  And Hob….how can a person write without using the word “I”?

Revisiting a deleted post, this holiday season has had its ups and downs.  Mostly ups though as I am constantly reminded of the many blessings God has bestowed upon my life from the day I was born.  I have relationships, some bad, some good, most wonderful.  I have friends who have left me, friends who have stuck by me, and those somewhere in between.

After eating dinner last night, we watched It’s a Wonderful Life.  Having not seen the film before I had wondered what all the hype was about concerning this movie.  Now I know how the film is an excellent reminder to take inventory of  life.  I thought it particularly interesting that a person watching this film and being thankful for their own personal relationships could turn the kaleidoscope seeing a new picture. 

What about the people who are a constant pain in our sides, those who continually bear upon our shoulders weight we do not believe is our burden, or even those who have left us when we loved them so much?  Where we would be and how lacking would our character seem without these?  Without our knowledge there is a plan and purpose for every word, thought, action and deed that serves a God mightier than we.  Whatever befalls our lives either good or bad; wisdom and patience is a virtue. 

Who do you think you would be better off without? 

I should have reconsidered!!!

I had the opportunity to postpone my exams for one week.  I decided to go ahead with my school work in order that I did not have to take an incomplete in any classes. 

Well, in one class, this decision dropped my grade from a “B” to a “C”.   I was counting on the b.  I do believe that I met my academic standards in order to continue next semester.  I should have waited though and taken the incomplete. 

I over estimated the amount of time I could study being sick.  Now I feel better then when I took the exams.  Lesson learned.  I am forging on! 

I have been reunited!

X-Box 360 is as good as the original.  The graphics are a bit similar, but that is only because I don not have an HD TV.  My hubby and I are back in action playing Morrowind.  I should say rather: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Now all the game the sites rate this particular game higher than Morrowind: Elder Scrolls.  I am not sure I agree.  Little discrepancies in game play irritate me.  There is no longer transportation throughout the guilds making a character travel by horse back to each city.  Of course, I must admit, we have only been playing the game for two days. 

Healing and playing X-Box.  No better way to be sick.  On that note, I have decided not to delay my exams by a week.  I want to get it over with, and my grades are doing well enough that I can take a hit on the finals.  I want my full two weeks off to rest. I have two exams this week, one on Thursday and the other on Friday.  It’s almost over!