ButteryMonkey

I refuse to engage with other people’s holiday shit until I have visual confirmation of Hans Grueber falling from the Nakatomi Plaza building.

That one started when I was like 10 and usually happens within a week of thanksgiving. I try to avoid other Xmas stuff whenever I can. It’s a rough holiday (season) for me, kinda always has been even as a kid, and I don’t have anyone to spend it with anyway.

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Interesting, thanks for the answer :)

I remember my mom playing around with stained glass for a while back around 2004, because the house needed a repair of some old leaded glass and why not learn more? She was using lead stuff but idk if that was because it was the only thing available or if it was just to use the same materials.

Pretty sure threads like this are why there aren’t more women on Lemmy…

Does stained glass still use leaded metal to hold the glass together?

If you don’t get the magnet variety, there’s almost zero risk of failure. Even the magnet variety is only going to stop being magnetic (if it falls off or the magnetism wears out).

I have a mechanical egg timer I’ve had for probably 35 years (mom got it when I was a kid and I inherited it). Super basic. Only way I expect it to fail is if I drop it, because the plastic is almost certainly brittle by now.

They are freakin wonderful little things.

When I swapped to powder it was because I could buy a jug of All free and clear (cheapest brand for hypoallergenic that I could find) for $12. I don’t recall how many loads it did, but I could get the powder online, which was at least the same number of loads but probably way more, same brand same fragrance free formula, for $4.75. They don’t carry the powder in most stores around me, I assume because it’s so much cheaper nobody would buy the overpriced liquid. Same with cheap dish powder; just not available.

Do you mean gild?

I’m sitting on a scarlet nexus run… turns out there’s some other media related to it so I’m debating re-starting it…

I love those super ultra long jrpgs… sometimes… but man they are wicked difficult to finish sometimes. I think it’s around when the interpersonal dialogue starts getting redundant (because you might not watch/play through all of them, and if you do it’s repetitive), and I just get bored with the relationship building so the story isn’t holding me anymore.

It took me all day to get around to it, and only about two hours to complete, but I did a thing I’ve been putting off for days now that will benefit me exponentially down the line. And I’m very smugly pleased with myself about it.

Thanks! I’d prefer more stable income that doesn’t kill my body for being broken, but this will do in a pinch. I can work on stuff when I’m feeling well, and nobody judges me when nothing gets done as long as I take care of my animals. And who knows maybe I’ll end up with enough surplus to sell to neighbors or something! There’s a year round farmers market near me that moves indoors over winter; surplus/preserved goods could easily be sold there or something similar.

As for Minecraft, I tried it many years ago, and granted my pc at the time could barely run it, but that super open sandbox stuff isn’t really for me; I’m not a particularly creative person in the way that game needs.

Stuff like rimworld and oxygen not included is more up my alley. Sandboxy but considerably more goal-oriented base building/exploring, with clear progression.

Yeah, I live in town on 0.2 acres. I’ve got a small flock of chickens, and a hydroponic garden in the works to use the entirety of my basement year round to provide most of my fresh food needs, and hopefully that of one or two people important to me, once it’s in full swing (it’s a very old house and the foundation is leaky, there’s not a lot I can do about it other than embrace it due to how it was built).

I don’t have a big yard, so the chickens have the bulk of it, and I can’t use the remainder for growing stuff because it doesn’t get direct sun, but I do better with controlled conditions like hydro anyway. I hate weeding, and the guesswork of watering dirt.

So far the garden consists of a sprout and seedling station (for eating and growing), several varieties of tomatoes and peppers that will be producing soon, some beans, peas, 2 types of mushrooms (grown on shredded cardboard), some herbs, and some asshole strawberries that hate me and refuse to grow. When I get the aquariums set up to breed guppies or minnows for my cats and turtle, (my neighbor was throwing out 3 55gallon tanks so I took them) I’ll be adding leafy greens and whatever else in an aquaponics setup.

I also keep colonies of crickets, mealworms, and a worm composter, for feeding the birds and making compost tea for nutrients.

I’m currently testing a bucket method for growing relatively large quantities of root crops in small spaces. I’ve had the idea for a while but I’m finally motivated to see if it works, and what it works for. If it does I’ll probably end up posting instructions on here somewhere. Probs slrpnk. Few months before I get results, or don’t, on the first round.

I wanted to sell this place and buy 40 acres with a shitty house, build up a real hobby farm/homestead, but everything started getting uncertain right around when I started looking, and I got real nervous about putting myself into a more precarious position, so I’m kinda stuck making this work for now.

is ghost cat ghost because of eating chocolate, or just taking advantage of the fact it ran out of lives?

Usually somewhere between 9 and 12 hrs (disabled and not working for someone else, but have a micro farm to maintain)… it feels like such a massive waste of time because it’s never enough to feel rested. I used to go with the 4-8 hr thing and that was worse but the anxiety early in the morning really kept the energy up. And then led to panic attacks as an alarm clock. Woo was that fun for 3 solid years.

I don’t think any amount of sleep is enough, really (since childhood I’ve always tended to sleep a lot when my brain finally slows down enough), but I do know too little is super super bad for me.

Write a stressor list instead, and see if you can break any of them down into smaller tasks to make progress on them?

Idk if that would work, or work for you specifically, but it might help to knock some of them out, even just a bit. As my friends and I always say “any progress is good progress.”

It’s called the doorway effect or location update effect :)

Nah, one of his psycho followers with a tongue so far up his ass they can taste his boogers will create it for him, trying to suck up. Just like all the other absolutely insanely bizarre shit they’ve been saying/doing/trying for the last few months.

Counterpoint: cats.

I had to install cabinets in my open-shelf pantry because the cats kept making beds of my packages foods. They would probably love to curl up on my dinner plates.

I live alone and do this occasionally when I get distracted in the middle of a task like unloading the dishwasher. Otherwise it really doesn’t happen that much.

I actually don’t mind it because it’s a visual indicator that my task is incomplete, and a good reminder to finish it.

My storage doesn’t randomly disconnect, but frequently (and randomly) when I open saved files, three to six other files open alongside it for whatever reason and that can get a bit overwhelming and for sure bogs everything down.

Very helpful for making diverse connections between the files (how my OS knows which files are related is beyond my comprehension), but way too much for daily use.