Buy CDM coffee or in a pinch, Community New Orleans Style.

Shut-off alarm.

Start 7 cups of water bioling.

Get newspaper.

Pet dog.

Pull your drip coffee pot out of the sink where you left it, intending to wash it last night like you told your wife you were not going to forget to do.

Dump the grounds from yesterday into the compost trash bucket and rinse the crude out of the sieve and bottom portion.

Put 3 heaping tblsp of coffee into the pot.

begin reading front page of newspaper.

Pour boiling water into the top when the kettle shrieks at you.

Wait for it to drip--5-6 minutes.

Pour two mugs 3/4 full of coffee.

Top-off with Half and Half.

Add a ice cube to the missus' cup.

Drink your cup while completing the front page.

She comes staggering out having been awakened by the shrieking kettle, and takes a long sip of the coffee. Give her the front page, go for the comics and Ann Landers. Here come the kids.

Domestic bliss.