I really enjoy cable management
Housing. What a luxury!
waking and baking at the beach nearby me w primo weed and good iced coffee while molesting the beautiful men w my eyes.
Bliss
in more ways than one at this particular beach. lol
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
It’s half gay erasure.
Only Andy Bell is gay, Vince Clarke isn’t.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
Doing boring things fast
doing boring things to exciting music
This
Painting my nails. Self-care and temporary, wearable art all in one go.
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
Do you have a recipe? I’ve never made it, but I do enjoy pretzels so maybe I’d like it 🤷♂️
Yeah… About that… I cook on a more conceptual level than a recipe level (not trying to sound smart, quite the opposite, it’s laziness lol)… From what I read people saying about baking being so precise it’s a wonder anything I make actually comes out good lol
It’s basically a simple yeast risen dough with a bunch of sugar as well. I use bread flour instead of all purpose as it retains more water and ends up softer. The “pretzelness” comes from a baking soda & water bath you give them before adding salt and baking. Just add some baking soda to hot water and toss them in it for a few seconds or so. From what I understand, the more basic the solution the better so people used to use Lye, but that’s kinda dangerous and baking soda does the trick.
This is the recipe I used to get the gist of making pretzels I just don’t twist them into pretzels I make rolls out of the dough.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24272/buttery-soft-pretzels/
I think there’s some AI nonsense going on in the beginning there because it calls out baking soda as a leavening agent but that’s not what it’s being used for in this recipe.
Baking soda is too weak. As far as I know they use sodium hydroxide in bakeries, which is kind of dangerous because it can cause serious burns on the skin. You can bake your baking soda to make the solution slightly more alkaline but it will still be a lot weaker than the stuff that’s used commercially.
Eating one of those mini pecan pies
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.
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.
Sitting by my computer working on a hobby coding project, on a Sunday morning with a fresh cup of coffee next to me
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).
Serendipity via memes
Learning about the native environment around me
Watching the garbage trucks do their thing, lever door handles instead of knobs, watching the sunset/sunrise and local wildlife, taking a nap
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)
Watching and listening to the birds. Where I live, we have a super rich and diverse bird population. It’s kind of ridiculous. Across seasons and times of day, every bird species get their time to shine.
Nightingales, nightowls, cuckoos, blue tits, great tits, black birds, whooping swans, woodpeckers, cormorants, herons, finches, robins, grey geese, buzzards, larks, falcons, pheasants and on and on and on.
It makes me so happy to be alive.
