I’ve been thinking of setting some goals for the month. I lost my primary hobby (temporarily 🤞), so I’ve just been reading and spending ungodly amounts of time on Lemmy & Reddit. I want to spend my time in a more healthy and fulfilling way…
What are some goals you all are working towards? What are your hobbies that make you feel fulfilled? What’s something that makes you look forward to the (near) future?
I want to write a video game that convinces the player to become a better person.
I want it engaging enough to keep people’s attention while the subtext works on them.
Kind of like undertale but specifically targeting the lost generations of the alt-right.
Learning Spanish, by the way if anyone wants to join, we have a small Spanish speaking community in !esp@lemm.ee
I also try to post to !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz from time to time
I’m a native speaker, I’ll subscribe to that community and see if I can contribute anyhow 😁
I wanted to study computer science, but I needed to do a calculus-like course in order to qualify. Unfortunately, I didn’t have this course during high school, so now I’m doing something called “Adult education”, which allows me to catch up with this missed course. If everything goes well (and it seems like it!), I’ll finish the course in May 2024 and enroll in September, after summer break!
Besides that, I’m also a bit bored lol. I was working on this programming project of mine, but I’ve almost finished it. Unit tests are the only things left and I don’t like writing those, so I’m procrastinating.
Something that (sort of) makes me fulfilled, is going to the gym. I’ll be honest, I don’t really like the workout itself, but after a couple of months, I have seen actual muscle growth in my shoulders, back, and (upper) arms and it feels like I’m actually making progress. This has only encouraged me and now I’m lifting 18kg for the dumbbell press :D
In no specific order, my current goals are: losing weight, learning Sanskrit, cross-breeding hot peppers, write my book.
Everything on that list is super intriguing, but I really wanna hear about your hot pepper project 👀
It’s actually a quite dumb project, involving dedo-de-moça (Capsicum baccatum) x bell peppers (Capsicum annuum). Target characteristics:
- heat - mild but still present
- flavour - fruitier, more dedo-de-moça-like than bell pepper-like
- size - intermediate
- higher frost and heat tolerance
If everything goes well, then I’m going to introduce habanero into the mix, to create a second variety that packs some actual heat.
Right now I’ve just been trying to make everything organized and tidying. My mom is a “hidden mess” person. Her idea of cleaning is shoving everything into a cardboard box and calling it a day. I’ve been actually trying to organize and it’s so hard when there’s little room to start since it takes mess to clean mess.
Other than that I have a wood working goal to build some shelves. My house has some weird shapes and cavities that I’m hoping to utilize with some custom furniture and shelves.
It’s hard but I’m very excited. Usually my workspace and room are a catastrophe and I get depressed but when it’s actually organized I can work long and hard, accomplishing a lot.
I find cleaning and organizing annoying in the moment, but they leave me feeling kind of calm/soothed afterwards. And having a clean environment feels much nicer. Wishing you luck with your big project!
