Panama Lot 12686 - “At City+ a lively, bright cup with snappy acidity. At FC+ a darker tonal range, plumy.”

With an exotic name like that it’s got to be good… Tom didn’t spend much time writing the label explanation on this one either. The review isn’t even on Sweet Maria’s site anymore. I had to use Google Cache to find it. I wonder if that says anything about the quality of this cup?

Guess I’ll find out when I drink it…

[next morning]

Yeh, it’s not so great. I’m kind of relieved. I would have hated for it to be the best coffee I’d ever had, knowing I couldn’t buy it ever again… - Wow that’s very philosophical. Let me think about that… Would I really forgo something great simply because I knew I’d never get it again? Would you? For some reason that reminds me of a Garth Brooks song.
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“I could have missed the pain
But I’d of had to miss the dance ”
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One thing that is definitely worth missing: My new coffee grinder. I really, really don’t like my coffee grinder. It’s so very inconsistent… well that’s not true. It consistently crushes my lovingly home roasted coffee into sad chunks and pointless powder. Plus it’s really loud… and I wake up really early. I’d love to have a nice hand crank coffee mill. One that is adjustable and good for everything from a French press to Turkish coffee.

While looking for a high quality, low price coffee mill [yeh like that's going to happen] I ran into a Web site that makes me wish I knew something… anything about tea.

Check out Adagio Teas.

Speaking of tea reminds me of my Mom and Patti. I think of mom because I think she’d like the stuff Adagio sells. I think of Patti because she gave me a cute little teapot for my birthday… which reminds me of a conversation Rachel and I had last night. She made a very true statement during our IM conversation. She said that having good online friends is bittersweet.

It really is. While they’re such a blessing, it really does hurt a bit to not be able to just go hang out with a good friend every once in a while. Here I am sharing life every day with friends that live across the country and we can’t share a cup of coffee… or tea.

Life really would be better if I could go to breakfast at Hardee’s with Patti more often. And really, these late night conversations with Holly would be much better with pizza.