Gardening

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?

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

Finding some downtime to just lie down with my cats and cuddle them

Also coffee

Typing on a mechanical keyboard.

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.

Having a clean living space

Painting my nails. Self-care and temporary, wearable art all in one go.

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 don’t bring my phone or anything else. Just my coffee.

Opening the blinds in the morning. My cat and I both bask in the sun for a few seconds before continuing with our day.

walking in a forest during fall with a little weed in my system

Sitting on the verandah with a beer, watching the rain come down, listening to that sound.

Using a wire continuity tester, and hearing that sweet beep.

waking and baking at the beach nearby me w primo weed and good iced coffee while molesting the beautiful men w my eyes.

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.

Doing boring things fast

breathing

Watching the garbage trucks do their thing, lever door handles instead of knobs, watching the sunset/sunrise and local wildlife, taking a nap

Doing Laundry

Hot showers in Winter. Cold showers in Summer.

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).

Sitting by my computer working on a hobby coding project, on a Sunday morning with a fresh cup of coffee next to me

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!

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.

a thick warm slice of bread in summer spread with butter and peanutbutter both almost to the point of melting

Getting stoned and playing guitar.

Eating one of those mini pecan pies

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)

Putting on a brand new pair of socks

Writing a script and having it not destroy everything on first launch.

It's a great feeling.

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.

Walking on the beach off season. Mid-spring, when it's getting warmer and the beach area still didn't attract the crowds or mid-fall, when it's mildly chill and calm.

Having a nap in a sunbeam

I enjoy the simple pleasures of Daffy Duck

Learning about the native environment around me

Housing. What a luxury!