is that a good idea? It is, right? Can you imagine what a good idea that is? Now it's especially good for somebody like me because I'm a creative person. So exactly the time of day that I'm in my creative mode, you don't want to have to mess with making coffee. You just want to push a button and stay in your head. And then when it's done, you pick it up and you stay in your head and you're always in flow. You've heard that term, flow state. You hear it for programmers. Computer programmers, it takes them a long time maybe to get into the right mindset for programming. But once you're in it, you do not want to get out of it because as soon as you get out, you have that whole wind-up again to get back into it, if you even can.

Now that's even twice as important for a person who writes or makes comics, because I've got to be in exactly the right frame of mind for hours, like hours every day. I have to be in a certain mindset or it just doesn't work. Now if you all agree that the concept is amazing, you can stay in your flow state, push one button, have not just a good cup of coffee but an exceptional cup of coffee. At the concept level, who wouldn't want that? It's all good, right?

Now let me tell you what actually happens in the real world. In the real world, it's such a marvelous invention that it's designed to tell you when there's any kind of flaw, you know, like a fault or something's not lined up just right. It also tells you when a part of it needs to be cleaned, you know, different parts at different times. It's got some maintenance built in that runs occasionally, etc. And the net effect of it is that nearly 100% of the time you go to have your coffee, it turns you into a maintenance worker. Sometimes the beans need to be refilled. Sometimes the brew unit needs to be washed. Sometimes something's misaligned. Sometimes the head is out of place. Sometimes the excess coffee grounds is full. And sometimes the water spillover thing is full. Sometimes it needs to be descaled. Sometimes it needs to be cleaned. And that's just a starter set.

So what does this sound like to you? The concept is amazing. In concept, one button, stay in flow state, boom, delicious coffee. Yeah, nailed it. In reality, I curse at my machine, go completely out of flow state, and I'm changing the beans. Like this morning, I think there were two faults this morning. Two cups of coffee, two maintenance things I had to do. It's one for one. You know, over time it's one for one. Every now and then you'll get a