I really enjoy cable management
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.
Hear me out. Have you ever tried naps?
Finding some downtime to just lie down with my cats and cuddle them
Also coffee
Coffee. Cliché, I know, and I’m not even talking about the watching-James-Hoffman-videos-before-prepping-my-4000-dollar-espresso-machine type of habit. Just the few minutes of preparing a cup the way I like it, and finding a quiet couple of minutes to drink it.
Typing on a mechanical keyboard.
Care to elaborate? I tried mechanicals and they feel loud and clunky to me.
The one I’m using now is part of a batch of 4 that I found in the trash at my workplace. It’s a big Cherry G-80 which linear, non-clicky black switches.
Its a very simple, old-school “aged” white keyboard, with some marks still from mistreatment, probably when throwing away.
Typing is delicious. The keys offer a satisfying resistance until they bottom out. They register the press before that point though. They never miss, and can be silent or somewhat musical, depending on the fingers attack.
It’s truly a simple pleasure to type on it!
Painting my nails. Self-care and temporary, wearable art all in one go.
Sitting on the verandah with a beer, watching the rain come down, listening to that sound.
Opening the blinds in the morning. My cat and I both bask in the sun for a few seconds before continuing with our day.
Doing Laundry
Doing boring things fast
doing boring things to exciting music
This
Which all things?
breathing
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 ^^
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.
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
waking and baking at the beach nearby me w primo weed and good iced coffee while molesting the beautiful men w my eyes.
for about half a minute I was like “how is she baking at the beach? a solar oven??”
i have many of the inclinations of a woman, but very much a man. lol
Damn, gay erasure even during Pride month hahaha
and at the gayest beach in one of the gayest cities in one of the gayest countries of the world no less. lol
Living the dream <3
Bliss
in more ways than one at this particular beach. lol
Watching the garbage trucks do their thing, lever door handles instead of knobs, watching the sunset/sunrise and local wildlife, taking a nap
