Coffee Knit

Greg's Current Compulsion

In late March, 2004, I had just returned home from the Washington, DC area and Fran was still enroute from Seattle. Arising early on Saturday morning, I was immediately confronted with a crisis, the resolution of which would have strong impact on our lives until this very day.

This crisis was (so as not to keep you in suspense) that our Capresso C2000 superautomatic coffee maker died, leaving us temporarily without coffee!

Dealing with this crisis involved a number of profoundly traumatic events involving both shopping and being patient, neither of which is within my limited repertoire of skills.

The shopping included a quick check of the 'net, where I learned that the C2000 had been discontinued by its manufacturer, followed by a visit to every conceivable store in the Burlington, Vermont area that might sell superautomatic coffee makers (I found about a dozen superautomatics), then back to the internet for intensive feature comparison and ordering.

The patience was required after ordering the replacement Jura-Capresso S7 Impresa, while I awaited its delivery at 10 o’clock Monday morning. This period was spent obsessing about coffee - mostly by surfing coffee related sites on the internet.

I admit to being intense, perhaps not quite OCD (definately not clinically DSM-IV 301.4 Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder), and my adventures in coffee tend to be somewhat extreme. This site is part of my outlet of my interest in coffee.

I am not yet prepared to claim any expertise in coffee; I am attempting to gather knowledge and experience in hopes of eventually acquireing a modicum of expertise.