Stuff! In my world! Is going on!

A lot of the stuff in my world is revolving around the aftermath of What Judah Did and Has Been Doing. But not everything! That's just the biggest, most pressing stuff. I'm meeting with my lawyer today, so that's good. I like forward motion. (There are two aspects here, criminal and civil. Both are slow.)

I tried out for a thing yesterday! I have no idea how I did. I haven't tried out for anything since high school. But doing new stuff is good. Not just with the shakeup of the Judah shit, but also, could help my impending empty nest syndrome.

I have fun plans with fun people!

And I have some very large, very positive things I'm working on that I can't talk about yet. Some soon, some less soon. I have a big shininess I'll get to talk about in July. <3

And today needs to be a getting-stuff-done day. So I should get to that. **nod**

Coffeemaker suggestions?

Originally posted by yendi at Coffeemaker suggestions?

So our beloved coffeemaker of four+ years appears to be mostly dead*. It's a Cuisinart 12-cup Thermal coffeemaker, and although we've got enough Amazon credit to just get a new one (it's actually gone up a whopping $1 since we bought it), I figured I'd poll the LJ hive mind for coffeemaker suggestions. We've liked the coffeemaker over the years, but did experience (about once every two months) the problems other folks cite in the reviews

We definitely want a "traditional" coffeemaker (not a french press, etc), and we want to go thermal (no constant heating element burning the coffee once it's brewed). We can probably go down to a ten-cup maker, but it's nice to have the flexibility of 12. We grind beans right before brewing, but I'm NOT a fan of the combo grind-and-brew units, as cleanup on these is awful.

Price-wise, I'd like to keep it around the $100 mark (and as I said, we're paying with Amazon credit and not cash, so things I can't buy at Amazon aren't really stuff I'd consider). We've got a little flexibility, though.

Brand-wise, I've had two Cuisinarts, and loved them, but am not fanatically loyal.

So, anyone got any personal experience with a good thermal carafe cofeemaker? Yes, I can read the reviews on Amazon, so I'm looking for anecdata here.

*This weekend, it finally brewed coffee after six tries. Today, it hasn't yet, but it might.