Time of Death: 0712 Hours

After dripping a distressingly small amount of coffee, my coffee maker died this morning.

I set up a field expedient by boiling water and slowly pouring the hot water through the basket part containing the coffee into the pot. That worked.

I can hardly complain. For 12 bucks and 8 years, it had a good run. So now the machine is in the garbage. Luckily, with college students coming back to town, cheap coffee makers should be all over the place. So I'll head out in a bit to track one down.

With my physical world weirding out lately, I worried that seeing 3 toads on the sidewalk in my courtyard last night when I was coming in was a sign of some Apocalypse. Little did I know.