The other day I had “Pour Some Sugar On Me” by Def Leppard stuck in my head.  I don’t know why.  It wasn’t pleasant.  And once it was in there, there was no getting it out.  I tried all of the tricks that you would normally think of to get rid of a crappy song stuck in your head, but to no avail.  Finally, I had to do what most people dread about this scenario:  I went with the Pina Colada song.  For whatever reason, if you’ve got a crappy song stuck in your head and you start humming an even crappier song, it will replace the first one.  So now I’ve got “If you like pina coladas…” repeating over and over again in my head like an echo chamber.

I’m pretty sure I need more coffee.

Drinking my morning coffee and browsing the Internet.  I remembered an On Point podcast I heard way back when about this website, Terroir Coffee.  They’re all single source coffee (i.e. single farm, single grower, etc.).  These coffees are fawned over and treated a lot like wine.  I’m really intrigued about how good they can actually taste, though I seem to remember hearing that you wouldn’t use a standard drip coffee for it, you’d need a French press.  And they seem a bit expensive for 12 ounces of coffee.  Though to be fair, a Starbucks drink would run you about $4 and one of these 12 ounce bags of coffee runs $16.  So really, it’s the equivalent of 4 Starbucks drinks for the world’s best, single source coffee.  (I find it always best to measure prices of things relative to Starbucks: movie tickets for 2=4 Starbucks drinks, new DVD = 5 Starbucks drinks (sometimes 3 on Amazon), new album from iTunes= 2 1/2 Starbucks drinks)….   But i digress.

Coffee has gotten so complicated.  I’m in the camp where if it doesn’t taste like it could have been brewed in a World War I trench, then I ain’t drinking it.  Though I have been really enjoying this Ruta Maya coffee that’s local to the Austin area.  Well, a local roaster, anyway, the beans are all from a co-op farm in Mexico.  Helping socialism with each cup, I suppose.

Anyway, maybe I’ll pick some Terroir up for Christmas.  It’s always good to buy yourself things; it’s the spirit of the season.  Or maybe I’ll just scrap coffee altogether and get some Fortnum and Mason tea.  How complicated can tea get, am I right?  Huh?  You’re supposed to steep it at what temperature?