Brewing in the Dark

I still brew coffee in the dark.

When we were still in that other house, the House From Hell (HFH), we had a fuse box (yes, a real fuse box with screw-in fuses) that was supplying only 15 Amps to the entire kitchen. That was 15 Amps for everything in the kitchen, including the lights, the dishwasher, toaster oven, and coffee pot. We could not make toast and coffee at the same time without blowing a fuse. We could not do much of anything at all when the dishwasher was running.

When I brewed coffee, I made it a habit to turn off the lights before pushing the “brew” button in order to avoid making an annoying trip to the fuse box. In the Fallapartment, we seem to have adequate electrical supply in the kitchen to make coffee in the full light of …. um… CFL’s. But after 32 years of brewing in the dark, I still automatically turn off the lights before pushing the “brew” button. It seems strange to see the coffee pot while it is brewing.

We become odd creatures, don’t we?