I really enjoy cable management
Paint by numbers! Great to just turn off brain and paint away
We bought my nieces some of these and decided we have to try them for ourselves!
How can u say this and not pay the cable-management tax somewhere deep in the comment section
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.
I love taking things apart and putting them back together broken or not. 9 times out of 10 all fixing is is doing that and cleaning in the middle
Prepare cocktails and coffee
Sweeping stairs
You can come over for pizza and cable managing if you want. My mom said it’s cool
Cable management is just the thing sometimes.
Seeing new and unexpected things to me, it’s even better when less people experience it and best is “no one will ever believe this” stories
Homemade pizza, and some often unhinged (but delicious) topping creation to go along with it.
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.
Sitting on the porch in the middle of the night in October/November. With a blanket. Or any other cooler month.
People don’t realize. That yes. You can bring a blanket outside. To your porch.
And no one is around at 3 am and it’s so silent and eerie. And perfect. Even in the city, there is way less people. But outside the city it’s dead silent. Like everyone disappeared.
It feels… Different than the rest of the time.
3-4 am is the most interesting hour of the day.
Try it next time you wake up with a full bladder in the middle of the night. Or have insomnia. Don’t go back to bed. Instead Grab your blanket. Step outside.
I find that my best writing happens within those hours. It is, after all, the witching hour.
There is actually some science to this phenomenon of creativity.
It’s called “aha!”. That’s the actual technical term in psychology research. With the explanation point. Aka “eureka moments.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect
So basically what happens is you are at your most creative when your brain goes into the “default mode network”. Which can (simplified) be described as loose, undirected thought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_networkFor instance while showering. Taking the dog for a walk. Sitting in traffic. It can be any time when your mind wanders aimlessly.
The reason this increases creativity and unique problem solving is because when we intentionally direct our thinking, we box ourselves in with related concepts already associated with the idea we are working on.
To truly think unconventionally with more unique creativity, one has to stop thinking of the issue intentionally yet still have the goal of that problem in the unconscious.
It’s a difficult state to get to intentionally unless you know how your own mind works and can put yourself into an unfocused mindset intentionally.
Explaining a problem to another person can sometimes re conceptualize a problem and help solve it.
But being in a “mentally unconstrained” state is also very helpful.
I can say I often have some of my best ideas for projects or solutions to things I’ve been working on , as I’m falling asleep. To the point I have to get up and write things down all the time.
High quality ideas.
Another pattern is people can also have a lot of creative ideas when procrastinating from a task they don’t want to do.
The task at hand looms and the mind distracts itself by mind wandering. Increasing aha! moments.
I’ll think of that, thanks for the suggestion! in december 24 after Chido hit we had no AC or ventilation so I slept on the roof for a week or so. It was full moon, and I’ve never slept so well before or since
Maybe you should just sleep on the roof?
it’s impractical for a number of other reasons, but yes, it’s a good idea. When I build my house I’ll make sure there is a dedicated space
Hear me out. Have you ever tried naps?
Yeah. I’ve been enjoying them a lot this year
Sitting at the beach of the Baltic sea in early spring or late fall when its too cold for the other beach folks, kept warm by my decades old leather biker gear and a bit of whiskey.
Animals! I love watching them, walking with my dogs.
Using a wire continuity tester, and hearing that sweet beep.
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 ^^
Not OP, but just a heads up to not get overwhelmed. Find the simplest instructions and start there.
Making a sourdough loaf is basically simple once you understand that you’re growing yeast from the flour and activating it (starter).
Making the best sourdough loaf is complicated as fuck, and it’s as much art/talent as it is science. This is where I suck at it.
But dont get bogged down with complicated hydration and shit at first – just find a reliable starter recipe, grow it, and then bake a lop-sided, flatter than youd like but delicious loaf of bread.
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.
