diff --git a/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer.go b/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer.go
index 830b302347..f8a037e349 100644
--- a/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer.go
+++ b/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import (
 // the first event in the buffer, we can cache the buffered events for future
 // watchers on the same topic. Finally, once we've delivered all the snapshot
 // events to the buffer, we can append a next-element which is the first topic
-// buffer element with a higher index and so consumers can just keep reading the
+// buffer element with a higher index and so consumers can keep reading the
 // same buffer.
 //
 // A huge benefit here is that caching snapshots becomes very simple - we don't
@@ -124,9 +124,8 @@ func (b *EventBuffer) Head() *BufferItem {
 }
 
 // BufferItem represents a set of events published by a single raft operation.
-// The first item returned by a newly constructed buffer will have nil Events
-// and should be considered a "sentinel" value just useful for waiting on the
-// next events via Next.
+// The first item returned by a newly constructed buffer will have nil Events.
+// It is a sentinel value which is used to wait on the next events via Next.
 //
 // To iterate to the next event, a Next method may be called which may block if
 // there is no next element yet.
diff --git a/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer_test.go b/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer_test.go
index eadd638160..cd2461c778 100644
--- a/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer_test.go
+++ b/agent/consul/stream/event_buffer_test.go
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@ func TestEventBufferFuzz(t *testing.T) {
 	// indexes and some jitter in timing (to allow clients to "catch up" and block
 	// waiting for updates).
 	go func() {
+		seed := time.Now().UnixNano()
+		t.Logf("Using seed %d", seed)
 		// z is a Zipfian distribution that gives us a number of milliseconds to
 		// sleep which are mostly low - near zero but occasionally spike up to near
 		// 100.
-		z := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(rand.NewSource(1)), 1.5, 1.5, 50)
+		z := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(rand.NewSource(seed)), 1.5, 1.5, 50)
 
 		for i := 0; i < nMessages; i++ {
 			// Event content is arbitrary and not valid for our use of buffers in