The Elusive Excogitation

I love Iced tea, sweetened with sugar. It’s a loved drink by the adults in the household. However, I hate making Iced Tea , the boiling of water that makes the house warmer, the seeping time, seems to take forever to get to my desired strength, and last but not least… adding sugar.

So I purchased a sub $20.00 Iced Tea maker! the

Mr. Coffee TM70 3-Quart Iced-Tea Maker!

First question you have I know is, Why buy an appliance to do something that is relatively easy. Well, filling the 3 quart pitcher with ice and putting the required amount of water in the Iced tea maker, then waiting 15minutes is so much easier! (can be brewed from either Tea bags or loose tea!!) I know I can down 3q of tea in a day, or less. 

Well, I suppose that doesn’t really eliminate my sugar adding quandary.  Do I add sugar before? after? during? I have found that a cup or cup and a half, if desired, in a coffee mug with water, in the microwave for 1 minute; makes the perfect Sugar liquid that easily mixes with the tea. You could add raspberry or other flavoring too after it’s done, just like making tea the “involved” way.

I am very happy with the tea maker and for $18.00, It’s hard to say that it’s a bad buy.

Now, what I learned is that this will make the hot tea, then it gets moved to the pitcher, where the Ice then cools it. So, this device could make hot tea, in large amounts! Or, hot water for cocoa etc. Imagine 3 quarts of delicious candy cane cocoa!!

I got mine at Wal-Mart, but you can get it off Amazon.com if you do not like Wal-Mart.

Today I have been playing with windows 7 and speech recognition, the first few times I’ve used it, it did not worked out well.  In fact I use it to chat with my friend in digsby, it was very hard for him to understand what I was saying. However this time today, it was very easy for him to understand what I was saying.  This is due to the fact that I have trained my computer and a 15 to 20 times.  I’ll probably do it another 10 to 15 times. 

With this kind of control, I’m able to say what I’m thinking instead of trying to type which I’m not the fastest at.  This will allow me to better explain it and put forth my ideas onto the web, I’m actually quite excited about the prospect.

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A brilliant fried of mine from Portland. Everyone comment on this commercial and tell him to have me on sometime!!! Cause, this would be awesome!! 

U.S. officials to unveil sweeping proposal for broadband – San Jose Mercury News.

A good start, but, before we go any further, I hope that they will add caveats to this that will not allow those dastardly thieving telcos to steal the money without performing the task. Like they did in Clinton’s time. Still, a good start!