Prepare cocktails and coffee
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Homemade pizza, and some often unhinged (but delicious) topping creation to go along with it.
You can come over for pizza and cable managing if you want. My mom said it's cool
Cable management is just the thing sometimes.
Fixing things. Doesn't matter what it is, but I find deep fulfillment and satisfaction in taking something that is seemingly beyond rescue and bringing it humming back to life with nothing but a wrench and a little hard work.
I love taking things apart and putting them back together broken or not. 9 times out of 10 all fixing is is doing that and cleaning in the middle
Seeing new and unexpected things to me, it's even better when less people experience it and best is "no one will ever believe this" stories
I WFH, so once I get everyone else out the door I take 10 min to sit on the back porch to drink my coffee. I donβt bring my phone or anything else. Just my coffee.
Sitting on the porch in the middle of the night in October/November. With a blanket. Or any other cooler month.
People don't realize. That yes. You can bring a blanket outside. To your porch.
And no one is around at 3 am and it's so silent and eerie. And perfect. Even in the city, there is way less people. But outside the city it's dead silent. Like everyone disappeared.
It feels... Different than the rest of the time.
3-4 am is the most interesting hour of the day.
Try it next time you wake up with a full bladder in the middle of the night. Or have insomnia. Don't go back to bed. Instead Grab your blanket. Step outside.
I find that my best writing happens within those hours. It is, after all, the witching hour.
I'll think of that, thanks for the suggestion! in december 24 after Chido hit we had no AC or ventilation so I slept on the roof for a week or so. It was full moon, and I've never slept so well before or since
Maybe you should just sleep on the roof?
Sitting at the beach of the Baltic sea in early spring or late fall when its too cold for the other beach folks, kept warm by my decades old leather biker gear and a bit of whiskey.
Sour Dough Bread baking. I discovered it as a hobby beginning of the year and have baked a bread pretty much every weekend since. First of all it's really nice to eat a slice of your own bread. Slowly but surely realizing that you actually know what your doing is also really rewarding. From water absorption to gluten development and fermentation, not to mentioned the tons of different types of breads and flours and how they differ and the endless possibilities by throwing in seeds, herbs and spices or even chesses.
Do you have any recommendations were to start with this, it's been on my list for far too long ^^
Not OP, but just a heads up to not get overwhelmed. Find the simplest instructions and start there.
Making a sourdough loaf is basically simple once you understand that you're growing yeast from the flour and activating it (starter).
Making the best sourdough loaf is complicated as fuck, and it's as much art/talent as it is science. This is where I suck at it.
But dont get bogged down with complicated hydration and shit at first -- just find a reliable starter recipe, grow it, and then bake a lop-sided, flatter than youd like but delicious loaf of bread.
I got into it because of a random YouTube video of baguette making being recommended to me, but (real) baguette probably isn't the best place to start.
The video was by Gluten Morgen, here is a different one that's probably a better beginner video.
Don't start with Sour Dough. Make a couple of breads using yeast to see if you enjoy the process. If you do, you can easily make your own sour dough starter, but it will probably take a week or two until it is active enough to make proper Sour Dough. The 'poolish' or 'biga' yeast methods are similar to how you would work with sour dough, by making a small preferment with just a dash of yeast (the main difference between the two is country of origin and water content). You then let it sit and ferment for 4-6 hrs (room temp, or 12+ hrs in fridge) before making the main dough.
I've mostly been watching a different channel recently (Einfach Backen mit Marcel Paa), but the content is in german, so probably not for most people here. He has multiple videos a week of all kinds of bread styles and I use it a lot as inspiration.
A beginner tip, hold back 10-15% of the water content. How much water the flour can absorb is really dependent on the quality of the flour. A lot of the Bread Content Creators use really high quality flour that can hold a lot of water, but your super market flour probably can't match it. Only add more water if you feel the dough is really tough and/or dense. Lower Hydration Dough is also much less sticky and easier to work with and can still create awesome bread.
Going to add it to the todo list cause despite the general panic of doing it, I feel it could be relaxing.
I'd say its relaxing. No need to panic, even if nothing works out it'll still be bread. It might be flat or dense or whatever, but it'll still be perfectly edible and taste great. I've had my fair share of failed experiments, but you usually come out the other side with at least an idea of what went wrong and how to do it better next time.
Using a wire continuity tester, and hearing that sweet beep.
Playing music from the playlists I make for my ttrpg games I prepare, to get inspired and write down ideas for the next game. It is like having a mental trailer about an upcoming show that we'll see when we get together to play it.
Housing. What a luxury!
Having a nap in a sunbeam
walking in a forest during fall with a little weed in my system
aha ! I've just recently discovered the joys of getting slightly stoned in the wilderness. Last time on my way back, during rainy season, I found the path blocked by a huge zebu. Bit stressful for me, I had to dig into the bush for a way around
I'll have some of whatever you were smoking!
What did the zebu say to you? Did it impart any wisdom?
Gardening
Is your friend alright?
He looks too skinny.
Lately, I've really been enjoying Lemmy and posts like this. All of it makes me feel like I'm still able to surf the web like I did 5-10+ years ago, interacting with other humans on the Internet in passing rather than a botnet like so many other popular sites.
I'm also a huge fan of cable management. I love the process of cleaning up my home/office to blend devices into the space.
A sandwich tastes better when you make it in your mouth.
Finding some downtime to just lie down with my cats and cuddle them
Also coffee
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Wearing slippers on a cold morning.
Bothering a cat. But in the loving way where they eye squish at you.
I also like homemade soft bread. So soft! So squishy! Delicious!
Watching the garbage trucks do their thing, lever door handles instead of knobs, watching the sunset/sunrise and local wildlife, taking a nap
Putting on a brand new pair of socks
Chicken and blood sausages are historically for people looking to save some dough, but I find them very comforting & prefer them to almost anything else. Weed with Wife is always a big hit. I don't really need much going on.
I wish my wife would partake, but the weed doesn't do much for her. Must be nice
A simple, but guilty pleasure of mine is reading HackerNews story titles (and titles only, most of the time), and tooting sarcastic reactions about them. It's very therapeutic. (And for easier browsing, I made a HN-like website (read-only) for said toots of mine).
I enjoy the simple pleasures of Daffy Duck
And sometimes our logs touch.
Sitting by my computer working on a hobby coding project, on a Sunday morning with a fresh cup of coffee next to me
Making and eating pretzel bread.
It's a very temporary simple pleasure, because then I go to my doctor for a checkup and get sad because of all the pretzel bread lol
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Board games and card games, but nothing as complicated as Magic The Gathering.
When I say card games I mean games like "World Changers". I don't play card games with regular decks (jack queen, king, joker etc)
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