Wednesday, January 22, 2025

1月8日(水曜日)2025
 新年4日目の午後、カフェで使っている電動コーヒミルから突然パン!パーン!と異音がし、同時にガーガーと豆を挽いていたのが急にシャーという静かな音に変わりました。持ち上げて振ってもスイッチを入れ直しても元には戻らず壊れたことがわかりました。8年間使い続けたコーヒミルの最後でした。

 その日はコーヒーメーカーで作っておいたコーヒーがあったのでサービスには支障が出ず幸いでしたが、次の日からコーヒーを挽くことができなかったら、お客様にコーヒーが出せません。カフェの終了後、急ぎ一番近い電気屋へ。案の定、思ったような電動ミルはありませんでしたが、取り敢えず簡単なものを買って帰り、家に着いてネットで通販用のミルを探しました。運良くこれまで使っていたのと同じものが見つかり、すぐに購入。三日目には届き、まずは一安心といったところです。ネット購入の便利さと有り難さをしみじみ感じました。

 昨年末にエアコンのリモートコントロールが1つ作動しなくなり、今回は電動コーヒーミルが壊れました。さて次は?.....色々ガタがきている私自身でないことを祈るばかりです。

In the afternoon of the fourth day of the new year, 2025, we heard a popping sound from the electric coffee mill in the cafe, and it became abnormally quiet compared to the usually noisy sound of grinding coffee. I lifted up and shook the mill to get it to work again, but then I realized that it broke. It was the coffee mill which I had been using for eight years.

Since I had the ground coffee which I made for the customer beforehand, we didn't have any problem with the service, but I needed another grinder for the following days in the cafe, so I headed to an electric appliance store nearby in Hikone to buy a new electric coffee mill. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find any mill which was similar to one currently used in the cafe. I bought a simpler one among two anyhow, and when I got home, I searched for a better one online. Fortunately, there was the same one which I had been using, so I purchased it immediately.
It arrived two days later and I am relieved because I could get through the crisis. I also appreciated the convenience of online purchasing which I was able to get in a short period of time.

At the end of last year, one of the remote controllers of the air conditioner had a problem, and this time, the electric coffee mill in the cafe broke. Well, I am wishing that the next one which will break will not be me.