It used to be catch up on Reddit. Now it’s catch up on Lemmy
I have a lot of personal projects, some big, some little. Some focus around my daily job and the things I find interesting but are too farfetched or risky in an R&D sense to actually focus on. Others are more personal or related to my hobbies.
For example, I have a water level sensor in my RV that’s broken, mostly because of bad design. As a personal project I’m designing a drop-in replacement that’s (hopefully) more reliable.
Other times I make contributions to open source projects that I use and like, for example to fix bugs or add features that I want.
These are mostly evening activities though, during the day it’s mostly hobbies, like diving, hiking, motorcycling and such. You can never have too many hobbies :)
And sometimes I don’t have the energy for any of it and just sit and read Lemmy or watch a movie with my fiancé, all mood dependent.
You can never have too many hobbies :)
My wallet disagrees sometimes :P
O have one hobby: boardagmes and my wallet laughed at them.
Run.
It absolutley sucks at the time and can be a bit demoralising depending on your climate, but it’s nice to catch up on some podcasts or albums when it’s just you vs the stopwatch and nobody else.
It feels great when you’re done too - even if you’ve got a list of things to do as long as your arm, it feels good that you’ve ticked something off and it’s done you some good too.
Without getting too gatekeeper-y either, I don’t mean run in it’s purest sense - I mean getting out there putting one foot in front of the other with the heart rate up - jogging, sprinting, whatever. I’m a 10min/mile goon - I ain’t setting the world on fire with that pace but it makes me feel like I’ve put a shift in after six and a quarter miles.
Dude I like running too but I can’t for the life of me run on a treadmill or circular track or anything repetitive like that. It has to be some kind of trail. But the summers here suuuuuuuuuuucccckkkkkk it’s so fucking hot I can’t imagine running at all!
Smoke a bowl, catch up on notifications I missed at work, play some Diablo, and listen to podcasts
seconded
smoke, eat, panic when I get an after-hours work message, play some dota with buddies and then log off and go to bed.
Damn that anxiety of the after hours work messages when I’m stoned and can’t figure out how to reply!
Thank fuck I’m not high enough on the totem pole to worry about after hours messages
But then again I already work stoned so I guess it wouldn’t matter much
Drink whiskey and check out lemmy.
I bury my face in my large friendly dog and cuddle him. It’s amazing how relaxing that is. And he likes it too.
Video games and hiking!
Hammock, hike, cycle, take pictures, play video games, watch stuff, read, write, etc.
Drum
My house is a fixer-upper, so usually house projects. Yard work, hanging shakes, painting. It’s nice to do something physical where I can see a benefit at the end of it, when I spend my day sitting at a desk inside. It’s also nice when the neighbors compliment our progress!
I feel like a loser compared to some of these other commenters lol. I sometimes like to play retro games on my handheld emulator. Those usually get boring pretty fast. I like to watch YouTube videos about really old computers & try to figure out how they work. Like vacuum tubes and stuff - really simple computers. I also watch videos on repairing old electronics and computers too. But I can’t really justify any investment into that hobby so I just live vicariously through the videos. That’s about it.
And any chance I get I like to disconnect from society completely and go backpacking in the woods either by myself or with a couple really close friends! But that could never happen often enough.
Those don’t sound like things a loser would do.
Smoke weed and think
Lots of things! I like to go for a bike ride, read, and work in my garden. I’m also learning to play the guitar (shoutout to Justin Guitar!). And weirdly, I find house cleaning really relaxing - I just throw on some classic rock or maybe a podcast and get into a cleaning groove!
How’s learning the guitar? I’ve been wanting to pick it up, but feel intimidated.
It’s a lot to keep track of at first, and it will make your fingers hurt. The learning curve to get to playing basic songs isn’t too bad, but if you want to get good you need to put in a ton of time which is a lot easier to do if you enjoy it. If it feels like a slog, it’ll be hard to make progress, but if you love it and find it relaxing/enjoyable then it can be incredibly rewarding. I’d definitely recommend getting a cheap guitar to dink around on before you pony up a bunch of money for anything fancy. Also get that cheap guitar set up properly at a shop, it makes a huge difference.
It’s really fun! I get feeling intimidated but you don’t have to feel that way. You can do it! The site I linked has super detailed lessons with an organized course structure and really well laid out practice guides, and it’s free at the beginner levels. There’s a good balance between learning concepts and techniques, and then applying them to playing songs. You start learning songs right away which is nice. The dude Justin who runs it is a seriously gifted teacher and his approach makes it really manageable. (Plus, if you’re a lady, he’s easy on the eyes which is nice!) 10/10 I highly recommend trying it!
Read this stuff.
That’s my secret, I never do 😭
