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If you do something often, it pays to find out how to do it without vision. I can't function in the morning without/before I have coffee, and this often means I can't pull my shit together enough to make said coffee by which to function. So I have a moca pot and two timers, one 9 minutes and one 13 minutes. Moca pot goes on full heat and it takes exactly 9 minutes for the first coffee to come through; alarm goes off; turn the flame down to very low so as not to burn coffee. By this point I should have switched from making bed to cleaning dishes or folding laundry, (or vacuuming or cleaning the stove or bathroom or another area I noticed needed cleaning - I attend to each on longer and shorter rotations). At the 13 minute alarm, the coffee is exactly full, and ideally the morning chores are done.


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