6mo ago

What's an activity that you could foresee yourself doing every weekend for the rest of your life?

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Sleeping.

Telling myself I’ll go to the farmer’s market and then not doing it.
- I know there is a wide variety of times but I feel like 2/3rds of the farmer's markets near me are at inconvenient times for me. "3-7PM on a weekday" nope, "8AM-12PM on sunday" MAYBE if I wake up early and am feeling adventurous.
  
  It’s yet one more sign of poor sleep habits, at least for me. I have one within walking distance every Saturday until 2pm but I’m so exhausted from the week. How is it difficult to get up early enough to go?
- You should. I found out there's a huge list of cities in my country that have farmer's markets, pretty every day of the week.

Working out. (I do it most weekdays, too).
I work in software, and I've seen far too many guys in my industry who are either skinny as a rail and surviving on Cheetos dust, or painfully overweight. Had several co-workers croak unexpectedly, at shockingly young ages.
It's a real problem in the industry. People simply plop themselves down at their computers and forget to do anything else for an entire day.
I have kids, and refuse to let them lose their dad early, so I hit the gym for an hour in the mornings, at least every other day. I do a mix of cardio and weight training. I also never stay seated for longer than 45 minutes.
Seriously, guys... If you work in the software industry, make a habit of getting up and moving around. It doesn't actually take much to reap enormous benefits just from staying more active.
- I have an IT company, and believe the same. We’re all working remote, and we organize competitions regularly like who is doing the most interesting sports, making the most progress, being the most consistent, etc.
  I think it’s also important for the long term sustainability of the team too, we want people to have healthy lifestyle balances and not burn out.
  
  Bingo. When my body is healthy, my brain is healthy. When my brain is healthy, my code is better.
- I started working out because I was super weak and just had a kid, and I realized there was a legitimate risk that I wouldn't be able to pick up my own child, so I started doing some strength training and holy crap this is amazing. Then I went back to college and lost my workout schedule, but after college I started running the following super smokey summer and didn't make much progress, but this summer I've picked up biking and I'm currently up to about 3 miles of extremely hilly biking every day.
  I seriously forgot how fun biking is, and it's also nice just how much healthier I feel from the regular fitness
  
  Right? Just getting up and doing something is so important. Whatever works to keep people from being sedentary.
- I never had to before, always had reasonably active jobs. Supervisor role and middle age and a scolding from my doctor has made a difference.
  I've been giving myself 20 minutes a day for the last six weeks. I haven't really lost weight, but I do feel better.
  
  I actually gained weight when I first got serious about the gym, and that worried me until my doctor reassured me that I was putting on muscle, not fat. These days, it's pretty obvious in retrospect.
  The real metric I pay attention to is blood pressure. As my dad's getting older he's been struggling with blood pressure, and I don't want that to ever happen to me, so cardio is important.
- I'm 31 and I've always been on the nerdy side. I have ADHD which let's me lose whole days really easy. I decided a long time ago that dripping out of college was probably the best thing that could have happened for my health. I eventually got a job working outside and I've never looked back. If only I didn't have one of the (if not the) most dangerous jobs in America right now.
  
  If only I didn't have one of the (if not the) most dangerous jobs in America right now.
  Is it being a lifeguard to Donald Trump? WELL DON'T LEAVE US HANGING.
- and work standing
  
  Yep. I have a standing desk.

Playing D&D
- Pretty much same, but TTRPGs in general. I abandoned D&D after it became clear that Hasbro is going to continue making the game worse to squeeze money out of the fans.
  
  I'm a bit out of date, but what prevents you from picking the edition you like the most and just sticking to it?
- Everybody else in the group, however...
  
  Their kid was ill, their partner had a thing, they didn't remember another event that they had previously agreed on, they said yes but they were thinking of another date, "is it for that game? I thought we were gonna play something else.", that's a long weekend week so they had out-of-state plans, etc.. etc..
  I sometimes feel bad for DMs.
  Edit: If I say I'll come, I will come, I'll force myself. Otherwise laziness will get the best of me. Few things I own, better to keep my word.

Getting thoroughly zooted
- What's the admission cost to Castle Anthrax?
  
  You must spank us all.

Sleep

Having sex.
- it would be heaven if i could go out every weekend to the same places and fuck all the guys who wanted it like i am now, for the rest of my life.

Five-a-side football (soccer). I'm not a sporty person, but started going with a local group a few years ago and have reaped the benefits of doing some intensive team exercise once per week. I go with a bunch of guys way older than I am, and it's amazing how fit and healthy they are compared to the average person I meet of their age. I certainly plan to keep this up so long an injury doesn't prevent me.
- TIL soccer is 5 man teams.
  
  Five-a-side is a specific format of football (soccer), aimed at more casual play with a much lower bar to skill level. Outside of five-a-side leagues (which do exist), it's rarely played with fixed teams and often ran in a more "pick up group" fashion.

Breathing, even though breathing is extremely dangerous. Evidence shows that 100% of all people who breathe will die. This can be traced back genetically; everyone who breathes was born to people who had also breathed during their lifetimes.
- I hear folks that drink dihydrogen monoxide can become addicted after their first sip. One sip, and they are chasing that dragon for the rest of their days on earth, sad really. It's why I only drink soda, love me some sugary teeth rot

Apparently, waking up by 6 or 6:30 because my stupid body is on a schedule and we're sticking to it every day, I guess.
Oh, and laundry. No matter what else I have going on, the laundry never stops.
- Laundry is the real answer
- my stupid body is on a schedule
  Sticking to the same schedule is supposed to be good for you. Some kinda circadian rhythm thing.
  So be okay with it. Your body is doing you a solid.
  
  I know, but it would be nice to sleep in until like, 7 on the weekend.

eating a meal
- A succulent Chinese meal?
  
  I have a Pang for one.

Spanking it.
- You do that anyway, choose another one.
  
  Spanking YOU.

Napping.
- It's a skill I unlocked about five or so years ago and it's marvelous.

What I'd like to do? Play Pente with friends and family in the morning in a cafe. It's an easy going game that you can have conversations over and it is a family favorite of mine.
Realistically? Forage for mushrooms and be successful at hunting in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.
- Sounds pretty optimistic to me. Nobody's going to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. At least not in the northern hemisphere.
  
  Sometimes all you can do is hope
  ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ ⁠ಥ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠ಥ⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Reading a book (hopefully)

MMORPGs!
- meuporgues ?

Gardening and plant care. Winters would be quiet tho
- Greenhouses and indoors plants exist though. And some vegetables like kale grow well in winter. And I've seen some impressive greenhouses that use geothermal energy (think water pipes 3 meters deep feeding warmth all winter long).
  
  I'd love to have a geothermal greenhouse. Saw them on YouTube and was impressed. Here I have to make do with what I got, but one can dream.

being irritated with myself at the end of it that I didn't get all the chores done

I go boxing every weekend I'm home and will keep it up thru retirement just to stay mobile.
- Training for boxing every weekend, very good. Doing actual boxing and getting repeatedly hit in the head every weekend, not exactly the most senior friendly activity.
  
  well i wear a mouthguard and headgear. Still it wakes you up.

Learn something.

Hitting the gym

Pinball

Walking the dog
- That's either a very longevous dog or a rather short life.
  
  I have incurable cancer and it’s expected I have ten years or so.

DMing Tabletop RPGs

Sleeping

Started geocaching, I could definitely see myself doing this every week with my family.

eating döner kebab
oh and also some kind of yoga in a park.
- Ah, that meal from Germany?
  
  Turkey, but yes.

Any kinda craft. Right now it's basic woodwork and crotchet.
- Sounds good to me, intended:
  Drinking & brewcraft sets the stage. Once that's rolling, add all the other crafts!
  Or as it gets rolling, rather:
  Gardening (of plants & fungi, SCOBYs) for ingredients of drinks.
  Drawing, writing, cooking (things to eat with drinks). Making bikes, instruments, yurts, clothes from plants, fungi & trash.
  Using solar source aluminum melting, casting.
  Feed oyster mush (and any other micro biomes that will eat it) on plastics.
  (Sum Things I hope are rolling already)

Taking a 1 hour nap

Long runs

Making pancakes for my kids.

Sailing, scuba diving, cooking a big meal for friends, having a lazy start morning sipping coffee with my partner.

Mind altering substances and trail biking has worked well so far. Preferably both at the same time.

Snorkeling.

It's still Sunday so I was to get a deadly hearth attack right now I guess I would be doing that every weekend for the rest of my life
- That's a scary thought, guard your fireplace!