archive.ph will get you around the paywall too, if that’s more your style.

NYT cooking tends to have recipes with short descriptions and very little narrative.

Cooking. It gives me a chance to be creative, plus I need to do it multiple times a day. Also, you get to share the fruits of your labor with friends/ family. Definitely helps that I don’t have any friends who are picky eaters.

Sebo also makes a great “premium” vacuum, but like the Miele, it also uses bags. I feel like the best vacuums tend to use bags.

Very true. Leisure is essential even if it’s not “productive.” That’s not a great metric to measure things by.

I was thinking of it purely as a means to unwind, but you’re right. I kind of forgot about the documentary How Beer Saved the World, even if it is a bit exaggerated at times.

Appreciate it

I can do those too! Hooray, I’m valuable

Brewing beer. It might not be “essential,” but the apocalypse is gonna be bad enough, might as well have beer.

I’m a member of the SRA. I’m not saying lefty gun owners don’t exist. I’m just saying a lot of people don’t see them.

Not even close. About 3000 miles east

We definitely exist, but to the average American, a lefty gun owner is a unicorn.

Samurais (AKA Jimnys) are the shit

Guns. People assume I’m a Republican

Steam Deck with 3 TB. 1 TB SD card, and 2 TB NVME.

So lucky. I have maybe 4 trees that are producing fruit, but this is their first year, so I only have like 8.