Blog ≫ 2021 ≫ I learned how to use my new coffee machine

Well, I nearly learned how to use my new coffee machine today anyway, by watching youtube videos. It's well complicated and needs quite a bit of setting up, but I figure out some things I was doing wrong already. The coffee has been good though, it's fresh ground beans making a good smell which makes you think you're having great coffee, even if I have got the measurements and timings wrong. So far this coffee has cost me about £200 a cup it's going to be a while before it pays for itself. I wonder if I can keep track of this 1? It's up up up from here it definitely won't be a nine days wonder. I will convince Clare that this new machine can be promoted from the basement to the kitchen 3 probably comes to £175.64 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing[^As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.">4 so not the 'leccy).

  1. Oh yes I can keep track of this and I hav been since this day. [^In Jan 2026 my coffee is 88.1p per cup.
  2. In Jan 2026 my coffee is 88.1p per cup.">1? It's up up up from here it definitely won't be a nine days wonder. I will convince Clare that this new machine can be promoted from the basement to the kitchen[^And in 2026 as I review this it is still in the utility room, but still used every day.
  3. And in 2026 as I review this it is still in the utility room, but still used every day.">2.

    One of my earliest recorded gigs thirty one years ago today, Cropdusters in Southampton, but we went along for the Senseless Things. I sold t-shirts to get in free (or more likely stood uselessly near a folding table where other people sold the t-shirts) and also got a t-shirt in payment. I might still have it in the loft but I can't be sure.

    Last day here today, off to the Inn Doors in a bit then back in time for dinner. Then a lot of christmas eve driving tomorrow. Apparently the roads are quieter than usual.

    Country cases deaths
    USA 52278595 831395
    Brazil 22219477 617991
    India 34758481 478325
    Russia 10267719 299249
    Mexico 3934102 297916
    Peru 2267715 202338
    UK 11541351 147433
    Indonesia 4260893 144024
    Italy 5436176 135948
    Iran 6175782 131167

    Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Russia + Mexico

    popex graph Graph line from 1100.0 to 27759.0🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA Graph line from 989.0 to 24190.0🇧🇷 Brazil 🇧🇷 Brazil Graph line from 565.0 to 32049.0🇮🇳 India 🇮🇳 India Graph line from 397.0 to 9665.0🇷🇺 Russia 🇷🇺 Russia Graph line from 419.0 to 10676.0🇲🇽 Mexico 🇲🇽 Mexico Y axis of graph 0 - 5000 - 10000 - 15000 - 20000 - 25000 - 30000 - X axis of graph May '20 Jun '20 Jul '20 Aug '20 Sep '20 Oct '20 Nov '20 Dec '20 Jan '21 Feb '21 Mar '21 Apr '21 May '21 Jun '21 Jul '21 Aug '21 Sep '21 Oct '21 Nov '21 Dec '21

    Guessing 4 cups of coffee from my barista pro[^As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

  4. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.">3 prob'ly comes to £175.64 a cup (including actual coffee ☕️ and now servicing[^As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Paulʼs blog - I live in A sleepy town in the far South. Married and father to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, + I do mostly javascript / node, some ruby, other languages etc. My hobbies are pubs, parkrun, restaurants, home-automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.