I have encountered some negativity on Lemmy recently, so I just wanted to start a laid back thread to see what are people's plans for the week-end
I have encountered some negativity on Lemmy recently, so I just wanted to start a laid back thread to see what are people's plans for the week-end
So, what are you guys up to?
Wife is away for the weekend so just me and kiddo. Hope to watch the latest Dungeon Meshi with her. Cook dinner (small goals, man, small goals).
Install flat free tire on wheelbarrow. Which sounds not worth mentioning. The thing is, I'm usually depressed af by this time of year. Then I miss out prepping for gardening season.
Well not this year, baybee. I've been intently focused on preventing that and am doing pretty good. The wheelbarrow is representative of that.
Anyway, more tomatoes, spinach, maybe take another crack at potatoes, basil, zucchini, carrots, cantaloupes again (I can't believe they actually worked last time), not sure what else, yet. Beans? Oh and various sunflowers. Garlic has been in the ground for two years now. The alpine strawberries should now be pretty established but I may have to get a few more. Walking onions continue to spread whether I like it or not...
I'm meeting up with a friend and their SO for a little hiking and brunch at a local breakfast joint. Picking up the vision pro today for work so that's exciting!
I think it's easy to be negative if a person doesn't consider the human reading their anonymous posts, people feel empowered to take out their problems from life in general on random faceless internet strangers.
I‘m visiting my girlfriend , who lives unfortunately in another city. It’s going to be great, just chillin and cuddling and maybe a nice dinner and breakfast at the cozy Café around the corner.
The only thing which isn’t perfect: Here in Germany are recently very big demonstrations against the far right on weekends. There’ will be one nearby, but I obviously can’t make it. Oh well, maybe there will be one nearby my girlfriends place.
On my side I'm going to meet a friend I haven't seen in a long time Saturday morning, and I might get some Lego later today.
Shout out to !lego@lemmy.world for people interested
Love this thread and the responses I'm seeing so far. We have big plans to cuddle the baby all weekend, go to a greenhouse and farmers market, hit up a park, and spend some quality time reading as a family.
As an aside, one of the things I really appreciate about the size of Lemmy is how the users are a lot more recognizable (and not just the novelty accounts like on Reddit or other bigger platforms). It's been interesting to see how a user can infuriate me one one thread but then have me arguing in their defense in a separate thread. It's a good reminder that people are multi-faceted and everyone is going to have both hot and garbage takes. But one thing I appreciate is being able to have a conversation on Lemmy even when we disagree on topics.
Going into town on Sat: a few errands and meeting some friends for a pub lunch. Maybe going to see Poor Things at a local cinema with my SO in the evening.
On Sunday yet another attempt to get some paintings up on the wall. It has been months and we still haven't for one reason or another. I'm going settle in for some reading otherwise.
My teen will be here instead of his Mom’s house for the weekend, so literally anything he wants to do. He drives now, which is scary as heck, so tonight he’s going to meet buddies and he’ll be here on his schedule.
I had some great ideas for meals he would love, including his favorite chocolate chip pancakes, but suddenly he’s eating low carb, so those ideas are out. I don’t know, might end up with just chicken breasts and veggies.
Assuming the weather is ok, we’ve been doing a lot of walking around town and on the new rail trail, so hopefully more of that. It’s a great opportunity to just talk, while having enough activity so it’s not forced talking
Taxes. Looks like OP is in Germany, so …. Here in the US, we need to fill out tax forms and send them in: after January, but by April 15. Lots of paperwork to assemble, but I’m hoping for a huge rebate for buying an electric car
No set plans, but I have a hilariously broken app I want to rewrite. In the begining I was a bit ambitious with such a small task, but then lost myself in the process of editing it and borked it a couple of times. Now everything but the basic functionality is commented out not to be executed. I feel like I need to finally untangle that mess. Maybe it makes sense to restart that with drawing it's logic on a paper so I'm sure I understand how it all should proceed.
Other than that? Maybe some reading and gaming. Both have massive backlogs.
Riding the train for almost twelve hours because airplane tickets are too expensive and the high speed rail hasn't reached where I wanna go
I'm gonna plow my wife and we'll watch tech repair videos afterwards.
As of reading this post, my weekend plans have already begun!
I am currently enjoying a bowl (or three) of fresh homemade french onion soup and a glass of sauvignon blanc.
Tomorrow I'm going to put the finishing touches on a shelf for my cousin and install it in her bedroom.
After that I'm probably going to putter around in the shop for a bit, clean up, maybe sharpen something. I'll probably poke at FreeCAD a bit with the intention of designing one of the larger woodworking projects I have going this year; I have a cabinet, a hutch and a dry bar to build once the days lengthen a bit.
I'm late in a run through Satisfactory. I've sent the last project up the space elevator, so now I'm just horsing around, dumping things in the AWESOME sink. My stretch goal is all the trophies; the 1000 coupons for the Golden Nut is a goal I've not yet achieved in this game. I'm really hoping this is my last run of this game in early access, I don't want to wear myself out on it before 1.0.
Speaking of stretch goals, I just got the notification that a Kickstarter I'm backing has achieved it's goal. To be fair it had before I bid; The Longest Johns are releasing a new album and along with it a bunch of other goodies. I've got their whole back catalog coming on CD. I'm looking forward to it because it'll make it easier to listen to their music in the shop, where I don't have good internet signal.
I think it's off to a good start.
Update: Cat in lap. Is purring.
A little bit of self promotion, since you asked. My bandmate and I started a tiny record label named Paraluna as a project and decided our first release was going to be a charity compilation of 80s covers named Retronomicon for Charles Levi to help with his recovery. It came out yesterday and is doing okay in sales. 100% of proceeds go to Charles Levi's medical bills. If anyone is interested, it's easy to find with a quick Google search. So this weekend is promote, promote, promote.
Hope you have a great weekend!
It's going to rain. I'll be nesting. Might bake some bread. Just started playing Greedfall, so I'll probably put some hours into that.
Beyond that, I'll hit up a couple 12-step meetings, as I do. Maybe hit the Saturday farmers market?
Dunno. The main goal is to trick myself into not thinking about work for two days.
Snowboard Bay-Be! Ice coast sucks, but snowboard rules! Hopefully we get some snow soon to get into the back country.
I might go out with some work friends, hook up with a guy I have been wanting to meet for a while, and go to the gym. And talk in silly voices with my cats.
I should clean up a bit. Probably going to drink a liter or two of whiskey with Diet Coke or seltzer. I have parts for a whole new pc to put together but haven’t gotten around to it for a couple of months… the system I have is adequate for what I do and I haven’t felt like rocking the boat. Probably I’ll go for a walk or two with my dad if the weather is decent. Also thinking about making enchiladas, maybe pasta sauce and lasagna. Definitely need to roast some brussel sprouts and asparagus.
Building some cabinets! Finally got all the logistics worked out.
And some work. Bleh
This is an update
Before, I replies that I was cautiously pessimistic.
Now, I am cautiously optimistic.
I've been looking forward to Persona 3 Reload on PS5 so I blocked off the whole weekend to play it.
Last week I was on vacation (went to Disney World) so this weekend I'm gonna take it easy. Do some chores, order a pizza, play video games. Nothing particularly exciting, but I'm okay with that.
On Saturday, I'll be attending a retirement dinner for my mom. It'll be the first time she'll get to try authentic Indian food. Then on Sunday I'd like to get my metal detector out with my new coil that I got for Christmas. Hopefully the ground won't be too frozen.
Puppy Bowl 20 years is streaming on HBO MAX on this Saturday. The actual Puppy Bowl XX is not till next sunday, but they are doing some look back at cute puppies, so probably that.
There will always be negativity unfortunately. I've come to realize that engaging in it is a waste of one's time and doesn't help resolve whatever issue the person on the other side may be going through. I try to diffuse situations, but I can't always spend all my time doing that.
As for weekend plans, not much really. Gonna head to the gym after work and complete my assignment. Same for tomorrow. Maybe start a new video game from my backlog after playing some Muse Dash. I always crave a good platformer.
Doing my first in-person CrossFit competition. It's a friendly meet and it's more for bragging rights than actual prizes.
I am nervous and excited in equal amounts.
Though I'm not in the hardcore "RX" division (I'm doing the dialed back "Scaled" division), I think it's still going to be hard and an immense amount of fun with some new cool people.
Planning on some much needed yard work and taking my little one on a playdate with her classmates.
After some grocery shopping looking forward to making some hot soup since it's been raining a lot here.
Video games and cleaning my house out in preparation to move
Probably going to do some homework, probably going to read about distribution theory (i.e. generalized functions like Diracs and their derivatives) once I'm caught up. I'm so happy to be back in school.
Also, I hope SDF's Lemmy instance renews their certificate so I can get back to posting on my normal account.
I'm going to my sister's. I've been craving her macaroni and potato salads. She texted yesterday to say they were all made and we are getting together today.
My wife and I are going to go grocery shopping and make some meal preps. Thinking about General Tso's chicken w/ shrimp fried rice.
Eurovision. Lots of Eurovision.
I'm going to play destiny 2 with my long distance besties
Going to go on a hike to see 10 waterfalls, doing some flight simming, clean up the yard and finish the second planter box.
I'm on call at work so I can't drink or smoke, my boyfriend is out of town, and the weather is nice. It's the perfect combination to take the pup on a long hike. We went on a short hike yesterday and he slept SO HARD afterwards, so I hope he's up to something a bit more intense tomorrow. Worst case scenario I can carry him.
I just ordered a pedal steel guitar yesterday and there's a chance it will arrive today. If it does, I will be spending some quality time with my new instrument. I have a rehearsal this afternoon for a gig next week as well.
I'll be spending time with my wife, perhaps playing some video games with my best friend, and likely playing some disc golf tomorrow.
If Yodel manages to deliver the books I wouldn't have ordered had I known they were using bloody Yodel for the delivery, I will be spending the good bits of my weekend reading Harrow The Ninth and Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and hopefully catching up on sleep.
The rest of my weekend is going to be spent waiting by the door for Yodel to post their "sorry we missed you!" equivalent through the letterbox, and then catching up on housework.