Well, I have been chatting, by phone - (how wonderful it is that one can still talk to a real, live, human being about coffee on the other end of a phone: An aside: Last night, while browsing and perusing various coffee sites and articles about coffee, I was interrupted by something that described itself as "your friendly AI" that offered, with an entirely irritating - indeed, an utterly infuriating - cheerfulness, to answer any queries I may have had; with a barely suppressed muttered oath, I clicked that stupid pop-up shut with an alacrity that surprised me), anyway, I have been chatting with the person who runs one of the really good artisan coffee sites.
Their (highly regarded, award winning) Guatemalan coffee - which is what I had phoned to enquire about - has been sold out since earlier in the summer, and, for a variety of reasons (climate, conflict, coffee harvest seasons, uncertain global trading conditions, among many, many others), is unlikely to be available before next spring (April and May were the months mentioned, and, even that is not a certainty).
That meant I had to explore other options.