Saturday, May 19, 2007
(5:09 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Crucial Updates
Many of you have doubtless been thinking a lot about my dead coffee maker. I have gotten through the last couple days using my roommate's French press, but I finally decided that I would go to Sears and pick up a new coffee maker. My previous one was plagued by electrical problems for basically its whole career -- the clock constantly gained time, and the final problem was that the electronic component went haywire, rather than being a mechanical problem. Thus, I thought it was time to get back to basics. I don't need a programmable coffee maker with multiple temperature settings and a self-cleaning option -- I need something that basically has an on/off switch. That's what I got. Despite my experience of losing a coffee maker, I declined the extended warranty, as well as the new Sears charge card.Also, I am in the middle of grading my very last exam. What a fun way to spend a beautiful spring afternoon! I may celebrate by going to the northside Powell's and picking up some early modern philosophy. Or -- what are those books where they kind of tell a story? But it's not a history book, it's a made-up thing, usually interspersed with memorable observations and turns of phrase? Oh yeah: a novel.
