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Macro March, Day 2
4 years ago
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that one of the best features of living in a city is the public transportation. Sure, as a giant fox I could pretend to be a car and run through the streets. But just because one can walk doesn't mean one never wants to hoverboard.
So I waited at the nearest bus stop and hopped on board! By which I mean I stepped onto the bus with one paw, with my heel right at the back, and positioned the other almost atop it, so my toes didn't obscure the windshield. Then used my arms and tail to balance. That was the fun part, feeling my inertia and shifting my weight when the bus put on the gas, braked suddenly, or took a sharp turn.
Soon I was down-town.
It's not STRICTLY in accord with traffic laws, but when making my way through traffic jams I've been known to pick up a few cars so I have a place to step, putting one foot down, gathering a couple more cars in the other hand, and putting my other foot there, lifting the first so I have a spot to put down the first set. And so on and so forth until either the traffic jam has ended or I get to my destination.
Either that or they decide to be spoil-sports and leave fox-paw-sized-gaps between every few cars so I don't have a reason to pick them up. And where's the fun in that?
I hadn't brewed any tea since embiggening this year. And didn't have enough. So I was down town going to the tea shop. I asked them to order a few crates of various sorts for me. One crate is about enough for a single gongfu session.
I've been in the mood for greens, whites, and lighter oolongs, lately.
I also needed to get a bit of hardware. And so I went to a pool services store and got a hot tub and an above ground pool of the same size. It turns out trying to get someone to blow glass or fire ceramics on this scale is actually pretty hard.
Hot tubs are big, designed to handle hot water, easy to clean, and have an adjustable temperature control.
The downside is that because nobody involved in making or using them wants the occupants to be made into soup, they have safety devices that keep the water from getting hot enough to brew tea.
Safety devices that are easily bypassed!
So I filled up my hot tub with some fresh water and dialed it to 85°C and as it came to temperature I filled the swimming pool almost full with tea. I got a cover for it, so it's like a big, outdoor gaiwan. Once the hot tub was up to temperature, I poured it all into the pool, put on the cover, and waited twenty seconds.
Then used one of those pool skimmer nets as a tea strainer and poured it back into the hot tub. May as well use it as a cup. Buying two whole swimming pools would just be excessive.
Unless I'm having another giant over for tea. Then it'd just be good hospitality. Perhaps I can convince some of my large friends that they should get into tea, or convince my tea-drinking friends that they should get into being large.
Yes. This is an excellent idea!
So I waited at the nearest bus stop and hopped on board! By which I mean I stepped onto the bus with one paw, with my heel right at the back, and positioned the other almost atop it, so my toes didn't obscure the windshield. Then used my arms and tail to balance. That was the fun part, feeling my inertia and shifting my weight when the bus put on the gas, braked suddenly, or took a sharp turn.
Soon I was down-town.
It's not STRICTLY in accord with traffic laws, but when making my way through traffic jams I've been known to pick up a few cars so I have a place to step, putting one foot down, gathering a couple more cars in the other hand, and putting my other foot there, lifting the first so I have a spot to put down the first set. And so on and so forth until either the traffic jam has ended or I get to my destination.
Either that or they decide to be spoil-sports and leave fox-paw-sized-gaps between every few cars so I don't have a reason to pick them up. And where's the fun in that?
I hadn't brewed any tea since embiggening this year. And didn't have enough. So I was down town going to the tea shop. I asked them to order a few crates of various sorts for me. One crate is about enough for a single gongfu session.
I've been in the mood for greens, whites, and lighter oolongs, lately.
I also needed to get a bit of hardware. And so I went to a pool services store and got a hot tub and an above ground pool of the same size. It turns out trying to get someone to blow glass or fire ceramics on this scale is actually pretty hard.
Hot tubs are big, designed to handle hot water, easy to clean, and have an adjustable temperature control.
The downside is that because nobody involved in making or using them wants the occupants to be made into soup, they have safety devices that keep the water from getting hot enough to brew tea.
Safety devices that are easily bypassed!
So I filled up my hot tub with some fresh water and dialed it to 85°C and as it came to temperature I filled the swimming pool almost full with tea. I got a cover for it, so it's like a big, outdoor gaiwan. Once the hot tub was up to temperature, I poured it all into the pool, put on the cover, and waited twenty seconds.
Then used one of those pool skimmer nets as a tea strainer and poured it back into the hot tub. May as well use it as a cup. Buying two whole swimming pools would just be excessive.
Unless I'm having another giant over for tea. Then it'd just be good hospitality. Perhaps I can convince some of my large friends that they should get into tea, or convince my tea-drinking friends that they should get into being large.
Yes. This is an excellent idea!
