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tasteful update
May. 20th, 2025 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_shoshannaI posted yesterday about coffee recently tasting unpalatably bitter to me, and a number of people noted that yes, that could be a COVID symptom. Which is true. (And thank you all for weighing in!) But I feel fine (which I know doesn't prove anything), nothing else tastes strange to me, and I tested negative yesterday (which I know isn't worth much, but it's something), and today I went out and got myself a coffee from Tim Horton's, which tasted fine. I mean, sweeter and milkier than I normally have it, but without any of the bitter layer that milk and sugar at home was only kind of lying on top of without ameliorating. And Geoff confirms that he opened the bags of coffee we're currently working through a few days ago; I can't remember exactly when the bitterness started, but the timing doesn't not match up. (I have realized that it definitely didn’t start before I left: I was fine with airport coffee through a sip valve in my mask, and with hotel and homemade coffee the whole time I was in Virginia.)
So I'll take another test just for the heck of it, but I'm pretty confident that there's something amiss with this batch of beans, which Geoff, who has a notoriously deficient sense of smell, just isn't picking up on or bothered by in the same way.
I hate that I have to do this calculus. Stupid pandemic.
So I'll take another test just for the heck of it, but I'm pretty confident that there's something amiss with this batch of beans, which Geoff, who has a notoriously deficient sense of smell, just isn't picking up on or bothered by in the same way.
I hate that I have to do this calculus. Stupid pandemic.
changing taste
May. 19th, 2025 11:15 amthe_shoshannaFor the last week or so, coffee has tasted incredibly bitter to me. I mean, it's bitter from the start, but I drink it with sugar and milk and I've always really liked it; Geoff makes our breakfast coffee every morning and it's a nice little thing for us. (Sometimes when he goes away overnight he grinds coffee for me to have the next morning before he leaves.) But lately I've been finding it unpalatably bitter; even when I add extra milk and sugar, they just layer over the bitterness without easing it. Nothing about our brand, roast, or brewing method has changed, only how I taste it.
(I went away last week: four days in Virginia for a memorial service, which meant my first plane flights since February 2020, which was a bit of a mindfuck, plus a bunch of socializing, and Geoff says he's heard that things changing taste is a possible COVID symptom. I've never heard that, only that losing the sense of taste can be, and I feel completely fine, so I really doubt that's it. Plus iirc it started before I left.)
But this is a bit of a problem, since a) I like coffee, and b) having gotten only three swallows into this morning's cup before I had to stop, it was ten am before I could get my act in gear to start being productive. By which I mean, make a cup of black tea instead. But I don't like tea as much as I (used to) like coffee!
I miss coffee.
ETA: Okay, I have taken a COVID test, and it is negative, for what that's worth... (I think it's six months expired, but they're generally supposed to be good for a year or so after stamped expiration date, last I heard.)
(I went away last week: four days in Virginia for a memorial service, which meant my first plane flights since February 2020, which was a bit of a mindfuck, plus a bunch of socializing, and Geoff says he's heard that things changing taste is a possible COVID symptom. I've never heard that, only that losing the sense of taste can be, and I feel completely fine, so I really doubt that's it. Plus iirc it started before I left.)
But this is a bit of a problem, since a) I like coffee, and b) having gotten only three swallows into this morning's cup before I had to stop, it was ten am before I could get my act in gear to start being productive. By which I mean, make a cup of black tea instead. But I don't like tea as much as I (used to) like coffee!
I miss coffee.
ETA: Okay, I have taken a COVID test, and it is negative, for what that's worth... (I think it's six months expired, but they're generally supposed to be good for a year or so after stamped expiration date, last I heard.)
Anybody want a tarot deck?
May. 10th, 2025 03:20 pmresonantI bought the Light Seer deck this winter, and it isn't working for me somehow. It's a perfectly good deck, but I'm not connecting with it.
It's a contemporary deck with decent racial diversity, but I'll warn you upfront that everyone in it seems very young; that might be why I can't relax into it. You can see some of the cards at the Comparative Tarot tumblr. I have deck, book, and original box.
I always worry that I'm giving unfair advantage to people in the same time zone as me, so how about an anonymous ranked-choice poll? Let's see how this works. Responses should be anonymous. I'll keep it open for 24 hours and then contact the winner.
It's a contemporary deck with decent racial diversity, but I'll warn you upfront that everyone in it seems very young; that might be why I can't relax into it. You can see some of the cards at the Comparative Tarot tumblr. I have deck, book, and original box.
I always worry that I'm giving unfair advantage to people in the same time zone as me, so how about an anonymous ranked-choice poll? Let's see how this works. Responses should be anonymous. I'll keep it open for 24 hours and then contact the winner.
Poll #33097 Rank my interest in the Light Seer deck
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 2
I am this interested in the deck
Mean: 1.50 Median: 1.5 Std. Dev 0.50
| Sure, I'd take it if nobody else wants it 1 | 1 (50.0%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 (50.0%) | |
| 3 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 4 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 5 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 6 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 7 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 8 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| 9 | 0 (0.0%) | |
| Been wishing I could buy this deck in particular 10 | 0 (0.0%) |