Flashes of Panic

I had a gift certificate to Adiago, and today I got an email from them reminding me that it was about to expire. So I went to their site and tried to redeem it. I’m getting close to the bottom of my clearance campaign (yeah, it took me a few months,) and it’s about time I actually bought some tea. I’ve gotten used to my two-cups pot and loose tea, so no more supermarket bags for now.

First, Adiago’s cart said my order was free—so I tried adding some items to use the GC, and instead my original item became un-free. And I couldn’t get the cart to admit that I had a valid credit card; I kept trying to move to different stages in the order process, and it either wouldn’t give me a tally of how it figured my total, or wouldn’t let me enter payment information. So, I abandoned it. I couldn’t really decide which of their flavors I wanted; I was underwhelmed by the sampler I bought several months ago.

Instead, I went looking for (and found!) Fortnum and Mason in the US. I’m working on the end of a tin of their 185 blend now, it’s absolutely heavenly, but it’s also a limited edition and probably not even available at 185 Picadilly (where I originally bought it, seven years ago.) They do have more of the Millennium tea I polished off before the 185 blend, and that may be what I get, but there’s also Russian Caravan, pretty powerful stuff. Maybe both? After all, the semester will be starting in five or six weeks.

Now Playing: King of the World from Countdown to Ecstasy by Steely Dan