Quotidian

[redbird]

Or, as someone else puts it, 5 random things make up an entry:

• Mr. Twinings, or his heirs and assigns, no longer love me. They have discontinued the blend of tea that has been my default tea-in-bags (for offices and some sorts of travel), Ceylon Breakfast. There's a replacement, called just Ceylon, which will do, I think, but I'm considering just buying more of my favorite loose Assam and some of those fill-it-yourself tea pouches. (Washing and drying tea balls at work has, in general, proven to be a nuisance, doubly so because I need to microwave the water for 30 seconds to get it hot enough.)


• Black Labs are heavy: I spent the ride in this morning with a slightly fidgety guide dog mostly lying on my foot, in between getting up partway and sniffing at another stranger's pants leg. The person he was with tugged him back into place, but didn't speak to the dog (or to the man, but she of course couldn't see what he was doing, only feel him move away slightly). That dog may need more exercise, or a refresher training course.


• I'm in the middle of multiple books again, in this case one novel and one short story. Both are recent purchases; I've also got two not-yet-started library books. (I'm borrowing a lot of mysteries at the moment, in part because I rarely want to reread those.)


• Somewhere along the line, equinox=spring stopped seeming plausible: it's been spring here for a few days, in the places where some of my friends live for weeks, and isn't yet where some of the others live. Nonetheless, it seems relevant that the days in this hemisphere are now longer than the nights.


• There was email at work this morning, to all staff, about their 2006 bonuses, stating that everyone would be getting the details from their supervisors in letters today, and the money by direct deposit tomorrow. Oh, and free pizza for all, as lunch today, with no speeches. Temps, even those who've been there longer that I have, don't get annual bonuses, but we did get pizza. It seems a shame that the person who's been complaining to me that she's not paid enough to eat wasn't there today.

Comments

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Most public places that would put an electric kettle have a coffee maker and/or a microwave instead. Most private places that would have an electric kettle have a stove with a real kettle instead. If Vicki wants to stand on a chair and get it down from the high cabinet, and bring it home on the bus, she's welcome to my electric kettle. I'm not using it. (Obviously.)

If Twinings no longer makes acceptable Ceylon Breakfast teabags, would the Republic of Tea be a reasonable alternative? They're a bit pricey, and some of their flavored teas are too weird for my taste, but they seem competent with basic blends (they make the orange-hibiscus tisane you like.) I like the fill-it-yourself teabags for making pots of tea at home, but they're inconvenient for making cups of tea anywhere else because of the difficulty of closing the bags. There's a shop in Central Square, where I really should be going tomorrow because they have an herbal remedy for motion sickness I'm supposed to pick up...they have a lot of Republic of Tea varieties, and I can look for Ceylon Breakfast in teabags for you.

[redbird]

It might be worth a try; I don't know how much variation there is in those named blends.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Tons.

Try Jacksons of Piccadilly, if you can get it. You like their Irish Breakfast, you might well like their Ceylon one.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Most of my workplaces have all three. I don't usually see people boiling water in the microwave at work.

Actually, now that I think about it, the one building may not have a kettle any more; maybe people use the hot-water outlet on the coffee maker which I haven't measured because I don't make tea there. I'll look.