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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Nature! Going camping! No screens, no news, bliss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sweet, but maybe bring a little screen and post a photo to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plan: Work on my car, and my other car, and possibly my other car, play video games, connect with friends, ride my bicycle at least once.

Reality: Rot, eat chips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey I'm working on my car too. I need to swap the rear shocks and flush the heater core. Maybe swap the transmission mount if I still have the energy by then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We should team up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Four concerts plus aftershow party tomorrow night. Starting at 8 pm, ending at 7:30 am on Sunday. Yay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Oh, it will be! Two of my friends are DJing tomorrow night after the concerts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Watching. My performing days are gone since December 2008 when I wrecked my hearing major league on stage at my final concert.

Still love to watch concerts. It's a very alternative venue and they are mostly playing Gothic, Cold Wave, Death Rock, Post Punk and Dark Wave tomorrow night.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Smoke weed and enjoy life, same as every day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Chill out some more to get rid of my corona, prepare some snacks for the birds and cut some video from my cycle trips this year. Starting with a small one because from my long trip i have so many clips, i think i'll cut that around christmas with more time.

Would rather like to post these to peertube than youtube, but since i am using copyrighted music it feels wrong. Is it wrong? Like and subscribe my youtube channel, thx.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Brotato, watch mls soccer, eat short rib pot pie (wife is going to make for my birthday), read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Happy birthday!

Do tell us more about this short rib pot pie 🤤

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Pot pie was fantastic! 1000000312

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah it was so good!

I think she said she put onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, mrs dash, tomatoe paste, ketchup, some roscatto wine, beef broth, onins, carrots, celery, peas. All the flavors came together nicely!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tears of the Kingdom! I've already beaten the game once on my Switch, but dumped it so I can run it on my PC! got it running at 50-60 FPS with an optimization mod. Boy oh boy does this game look even prettier in 4 K + ReShade! ❤️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Even less screen than during the week. More time spent with my spouse, more reading(, more writing), more walking and more sketching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Regular stuff: walk the pups, read (on to God Emporer of Dune), think about exercising.

Other stuff: got a new firewall for home, need to replicate my pfSense setup on OPNsense which I'm not familiar with. I might need to change some of my home network setup to do so, which I finally have the motivation to do.