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My PhD being insanely difficult for me has made me go through a couple fixations or hobbies with a few sticking.
Bourbon has been present the whole time. It went to a big problem to a passion from COVID to now. I am better. After that I got really into China after watching a video about having nice things for your daily life.
Then I got super into rebuilding iPods.
After getting introduced to torrenting and Jellyfin I became obsessed with selfhosting, running servers, and Linux. I had six or so servers in my past home and now two in my new country. Since everything works that has somewhat become less interesting to me.
Upon arriving in Japan my love for Game Boy's has exploded and I find myself exploring old games. T
he past few months spurred on by an invitation to make a workout music playlist I've gone from not running for over a decade to running 32k. Love this obsession with challenging my body as the result is losing over 10kg! :)
Some smaller fixations are blogging on my servers. Taking hand written notes and planners. Recording important moments. Managing household money.
A lot of western people in the era of social media seem to have china and the potential of living there as one of their fixations. Conclusions are left as an exercise to the reader.
I meant China the object hence the use of "nice things."
Thanks for the ignorant reading and sassy comment. Another worthy block!
Heh I read it that way at first, too.
Sounds like quite the spread of obsessions to choose from. I like to have a good amount as well so I can cycle through them.
Speaking of booze, I briefly got into cognac which I do not recommend. It's stupidly expensive.