Fucking coffee maker.
We have been through three coffee makers in the last year.
The current one works fine, but just try to get a cup before it is done percolating.
I have seen teenage girls who are less temperamental. Sometimes, it does what it is supposed to: pull out the pot, the flow stops, put the pot back, the flow resumes.
About 70% of the time, however, it continues to spew out coffee, all over the heating element.
I know; I know... "Dude, why don't you just wait until it is done?"
BECAUSE WHEN I WANT MY COFFEE I WANT IT NOW, SO SHUT UP BEFORE I GO BUY A PISTOL AT WAL MART SO I CAN COME HOME AND PISTOL-WHIP YOU FOR A REASONABLE PRICE.
Besides, I
have waited. Until it was done percolating, sitting there quietly, proudly full of steaming, black goodness.
I pull out the pot, and it whizzes out a stream of coffee all over the goddamn place, like a 70 year old man who thinks he is done peeing, puts it back in his pants only to piss out a map of Europe on the front of his khakis.
Mr. Coffee, are you taunting me?
I almost strangled you this morning with your own cord.
If only I didn't need you so badly.
I hate you.
I love you.
I hate you.
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Hey, Chewbacca has a
blog. Pretty damn funny.
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I am glad to live in a place that still has winter, even if it is clinging by a thread. The snow in town is melting. Thank Allah that Big Sky is at elevation.
Even still, we're at 4000 feet in Bozeman, and it is nearly golfing weather. In the first week of freaking February.
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I had a great talk with Chris K. yesterday. We used to work together many moons ago in LA. She is still a rock star.
It is great when you reconnect with someone after a number of years, and they are
exactly the same.
I gots to get me back to SoCal for a visit.
It has been too long.
I haven't had a decent fish taco since I left, 10 1/2 years ago.
As soon as snowboarding season is over...
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India and I started planning an excursion to Glacier National Park this summer. Seems early, but there are only a handful of reservations open for one particular place I want to stay.
India has never done a backcountry backpacking trip.
If you have never been there, Glacier National Park, in my humble opinion, is the single most beautiful place in the lower 48.
It'll knock your fuckin' socks off.
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I am feelin' a little chippy today.
I think it is because I missed a big storm on Monday/Tuesday. A foot dropped up at Big Sky.
I will make up for it over the next few days.
Speaking of the whole "up at Big Sky" thing...
Now, for my whole life, using the term "up" referred to points North, and "down" referred to points South.
In Wisconsin, one went "up" to the UP, Minneapolis and Green Bay, and "down" to Chicago, Florida or Arizona. (One would also go "by" the store, instead of "in" or "to" the store, but we will just let that one lie for now.)
In Boston, we went "up" to Vermont and Montreal, and "down" to New York.
In LA, we went "up" to San Francisco and "down" to San Diego.
But here?
Big Sky is
South of Bozeman, but everyone says they go "up" to Big Sky. Now, I understand, elevation-wise, we technically do go "up," about 3500 feet, to get there.
But it is South, and therefore "Down," in my book.
The other ski area, Bridger Bowl, is North of town, and people usually say they were "over" at Bridger, when they were really "up" at Bridger.
GOD DAMN IT, GET IT STRAIGHT OR I WILL PISS COFFEE ALL OVER YOUR HEATING ELEMENT!
