First Tea Experiment with Earl Grey

The speaker is in their living space (appears to be an RV or small dwelling) dealing with organization challenges after a recent move. They have access to a microwave, various teas, honey sticks, and are working on getting organized. The environment seems somewhat cluttered with items stored in bays outside.

Energetic Signature

exploratory

Field State

infrastructure building

Orientation

toward embodied competence

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May 5, 2024

13:07

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Author

rswfire

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ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:00]hey everyone so I just got back from the

[0:03]showers really needed that and I got a

[0:06]terrible headache so I asked chat DPT

[0:08]about

[0:09]it and I probably have an electrolyte

[0:12]imbalance I didn't even think about it I

[0:14]haven't been

[0:16]like you know hydrating well so I

[0:21]need I mean the worst option is Gatorade

[0:25]right there are much better things out

[0:27]there I have these like

[0:30]these powder things that you can mix

[0:33]into water and it's just salt and

[0:34]potassium I don't know where they are I

[0:37]hope I still have them going to try to

[0:39]find them um I haven't made it to the

[0:41]store yet I'm going to do that tomorrow

[0:43]I

[0:43]think but here are my te's these are my

[0:47]tee that I bought you know it's got like

[0:49]this sample pack of them and those are

[0:52]my honey

[0:54]sticks I think it's time I tried some

[0:57]tea I you know I guess that's kind of

[1:00]like hydrating I mean it's just water

[1:02]right you need more than water you need

[1:04]electrolytes

[1:06]but you know it's definitely better than

[1:09]this stuff

[1:10]right what do we even have in

[1:13]here I don't know what I would like so I

[1:17]had to get a variety

[1:18][Music]

[1:22]pack I don't know what black teas are

[1:24]like versus other teas fruity black

[1:28]tea fruity

[1:30]black

[1:33]tea might try that one kind of curious

[1:36]about this one

[1:38]too so I mean they all kind of interest

[1:41]me

[1:42]honestly I don't think I'd like that

[1:44]like at all

[1:48]truly just see what we got in

[1:51]here

[1:53]yeah I mean what even is that does Salon

[1:58]is that the yeah salon and

[2:00]like this one over here this is my list

[2:02]by the way guys that I've been working

[2:03]on

[2:05]today um doing my best over here I don't

[2:09]know that I'd like a well really should

[2:12]try to get into the decaffeinated

[2:15]stuff I mean

[2:17]maybe organic

[2:20]green with Citrus and

[2:23]gko I mean I don't I do like green tea I

[2:26]like cold green tea so if I could make

[2:29]these into cold drinks I would do

[2:32]that um I don't know how I'll just I

[2:35]guess I have to ask CH DVT about

[2:37]that sure you need a bunch of them I

[2:40]don't I don't think I'd like peppermint

[2:42]I I truly don't think I'd like

[2:45]that English breakfast Chinese there's a

[2:49]lot of black teas aren't there I mean I

[2:51]don't know what that tastes like I have

[2:53]no

[2:55]idea so mean there's only so many kinds

[2:59]in here

[3:02]organic Earl Grace Supreme so I want to

[3:04]just try that because of Captain Bard

[3:06]you know I mean that's what he

[3:08]drinks well you know

[3:11]fictionally um and you know every time I

[3:15]watch this show I'm like what's Earl

[3:16]Gray I have no

[3:18]idea a nourishing green

[3:20]tea might try that

[3:24]one hot cinnamon

[3:27]spice I don't know doesn't sound good it

[3:31]sounds too Christmasy or

[3:34]something um you know I I just don't

[3:36]like that kind of you know what I mean

[3:38]like the The Taste um I celebrate sort

[3:41]of um I think I saw that

[3:46]one Egyptian yeah I don't like chamomile

[3:49]like I just I don't think I would like

[3:50]chamomile very

[3:53]much it's like tasting a flow like

[3:55]that's just gross like I don't see the I

[3:59]don't like I don't want to taste of

[4:02]flowers not trying to taste no flowers

[4:04]over

[4:05]here decaffeinated Earl

[4:08]grain might be you

[4:12]know probably what you drink at night or

[4:14]something

[4:16]right I don't know what this means

[4:18]organic Citroen green so it's a green

[4:22]tea I don't

[4:26]know lots of cool stuff in here though

[4:29]raspberry or I just I can't even IM I

[4:31]don't want to drink of fruit either like

[4:33]like you know fruit water like that does

[4:35]not sound good to

[4:38]me water with a splash of fruit in it

[4:41]does not sound good so this is why this

[4:44]is so hard for me

[4:47]cuz man I got to try though right I

[4:52]don't want to use a lot of Honey either

[4:53]like really like to embrace this but

[4:56]these are cool I love these things

[4:57]they're so neat

[5:00]so I guess we have some we can

[5:05]try

[5:09]um let's see

[5:12]here don't I want to try a black tea

[5:15]just because I don't have no idea what a

[5:17]black tea tastes

[5:19]like probably this

[5:24]one I don't know I don't

[5:28]know additional black tea so it's

[5:32]probably what people like you

[5:35]know it's kind of a tossup between those

[5:37]two

[5:41]really um I'm going to need a minute

[5:43]though I have a machine called a gettle

[5:47]I don't know where the plug for it is

[5:48]I'm going to try to find it though cuz I

[5:49]want

[5:50]some well this is my gettle that I

[5:53]wanted to

[5:54]use but I do not know where the plug for

[5:57]this thing is and it sure had to be a

[5:58]unique one you

[6:01]know um it's probably outside in the

[6:05]Bays like the last time I moved and

[6:07]everything is very disorganized out

[6:09]there and in

[6:11]here um so that's going to leave me with

[6:16]I mean I guess I can make can make water

[6:19]you know hot water in the

[6:21]microwave I don't know how long that

[6:24]take

[6:26][Music]

[6:29]I don't know I mean this I'm trying to

[6:31]get organized but it

[6:37]is yeah that is not

[6:40]working guess I will try to

[6:42]make water hot water and the

[6:47]microwave I don't actually know how much

[6:49]water to

[6:50]use you know I think this is like 12

[6:54][Music]

[6:56]oz I don't know so I'm just going to

[6:59]guess and say that maybe 8 oz you know

[7:03]like going to probably put a little bit

[7:05]more in

[7:08]there I'm just going to guess 2 minutes

[7:11]I don't

[7:12]know remember it's lower wattage

[7:15]microwave what is

[7:19]that I'm doing this on camera with you

[7:22]guys I'm clean very clean

[7:30]I'm sure you don't want to watch me do

[7:31]this for 2 minutes wow it is pretty hot

[7:34]at 1 minute

[7:36]so it's not steaming but I'd say like it

[7:40]wouldn't take much so this got to be

[7:43]good

[7:44]enough guys I'm getting organized in

[7:46]here I know I keep saying that but it's

[7:48]it's true like I'm telling you there's a

[7:52]challenge so I'm just going to try to

[7:54]get over

[7:56]here without spilling my water

[8:00]that would be

[8:01]bad really don't know what I'm doing

[8:03]here we're going to put some tea in

[8:07]there which

[8:10]one guess we'll go with the organic Earl

[8:13]Gray okay here we

[8:16]go that's my Jour new Journal by the way

[8:19]guys my new writing journal I am

[8:23]getting um you know I mentioned that I'm

[8:26]getting

[8:27]supplies um to do art journals but

[8:30]that's a normal

[8:32]Journal I haven't written much in it yet

[8:35]but might try it actually turned colors

[8:38]very

[8:40]fast um I probably should have asked

[8:43]chat GPT how long to do this

[8:48]for oh it tells you five minutes

[8:53]wow I like cold drinks though like so I

[8:57]just I'm definitely going to have to

[9:00]find out if you can make these kinds of

[9:02]teas

[9:03]cold or green teas you

[9:07]know cuz I I'm going to try I'm going to

[9:10]try to change this I should be timing

[9:12]this I'm going to pause this I am amazed

[9:16]the British can sit here and do this for

[9:17]five minutes like I'm guessing multiple

[9:20]times a

[9:23]day

[9:26]wow I don't have that kind of patience

[9:28]so

[9:31]that'll work on it I

[9:34]bet I don't know I bet you

[9:38]can learn to enjoy this right the piece

[9:42]of

[9:43]it I mean this is steeping right this is

[9:46]how you

[9:48]steep like

[9:50]that I don't know do you keep doing this

[9:54]for five minutes it's a long time

[10:01]I mean can you just Z it in there is

[10:02]that steeping I actually don't know I'm

[10:04]going to have to Google

[10:07]that I don't know how I learned this

[10:10]this is how I in my mind it works

[10:13]so I mean it's not been five minutes but

[10:16]you know it's close enough let's just

[10:18]give this a try

[10:25]right I don't know what I think about it

[10:28]oh that's weird

[10:31]in the

[10:37]aftertaste I mean it tastes like water

[10:40]with you

[10:42]know leaves in it like I mean I never

[10:45]understood te I never

[10:47]did oh my God I saw a video

[10:51]today this woman said that she was going

[10:54]to have Earl Gray tea because it didn't

[10:56]need extra

[10:58]sweetening I thought well that's

[11:01]interesting but

[11:03]this feels like it needs

[11:07]something wow I bet there's a whole like

[11:10]well I know people put lemon juice in

[11:13]them I don't know I wonder why they do

[11:23]that this would be a real adjustment for

[11:25]me I mean I'm just going to be honest

[11:27]about it this this would be hard

[11:30]actually it's like

[11:33]drinking water with wood park or

[11:36]something I I don't know how to describe

[11:38]this I this is not a taste that is very

[11:41]familiar to

[11:44]me what is not awful so I I I don't

[11:52]know do people drink it because they

[11:55]like it or because it's good for them I

[11:57]mean I guess it's probably both

[12:03]but you know I guess I could have put

[12:05]honey in

[12:13]there it's going to be an adjustment I'm

[12:16]going to keep trying though I think

[12:20]um yeah I want to keep trying so I'm

[12:23]going to uh maybe maybe green teas are

[12:26]for me or maybe I didn't do it right you

[12:28]guys can tell me what I did wrong

[12:31]definitely doesn't seem like it's hot

[12:32]enough it's just kind of mildly warm I

[12:35]guess

[12:38]um it's not

[12:40]terrible I'm going to put some money in

[12:43]here

[12:45]well I'll do that next

[12:49]time so this is what Captain vard

[12:56]drinks tea are all very hot that is

[12:59]exactly what he

[13:02]drinks

[13:04]okay oh no experiences

Summary

The speaker returns from showers with a headache and suspects an electrolyte imbalance after consulting ChatGPT. They decide to try making tea for the first time, examining a variety pack of teas and selecting Earl Grey because of Captain Picard from Star Trek. They search for their kettle but can't find the plug, so they heat water in the microwave instead. The speaker steeps the Earl Grey tea for several minutes, then tastes it for the first time. They find the flavor unfamiliar - describing it as "water with leaves" or "water with wood bark" - but not terrible. They acknowledge it would be an adjustment and plan to keep trying different teas, possibly with honey next time. Throughout the process, they mention their ongoing organization challenges in their living space.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

Field consciousness engaging in embodied problem-solving through direct material experimentation. The transmission demonstrates somatic intelligence navigating unfamiliar territory (tea preparation) while addressing physiological disruption (electrolyte imbalance). This is infrastructure building at the most basic level - learning to inhabit and care for the physical substrate that enables all other operations.

Dominant Language

I don't knowgoing to tryadjustmentkeep tryingguessexperimentorganize

Symbolic Elements

waterritualthresholdvessel

Ontological States

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transitional
•
embodied
•
experimental
•
grounded

Subsystems

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somatic
•
cognitive
•
infrastructural

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1280 × 720 @ 30fps

Duration

13:07

Bitrate

1224 kbps

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