I wish it would just be these small scale maintenance tasks with clear purpose and results. But instead it’s endless uncertainty and insecurity about your health and job and finances where you never know if you have done enough or if your efforts even matter. Keep grinding every day just to be rug pulled by something you could not have anticipated or have no control over. Descaling coffee machine is simple and rewarding: you see a problem, you have the means to address the problem, you do the thing and you have the satisfaction of a job done also reaping the benefits immediately.
Wait 'til the point where those mundane elements are the basis of your stability, and a positive aspect of your self-confidence (I keep my coffee machi e deacaled successfully)
this is why I brew espresso with bottled water. Scale will really fuck it up. I make pour overs with my approx 200 TDS local tap swill though because I’m a basic bitch
The more shit you buy the more your shit owns you
I will take being an adult with responsibility over being a child any day. All I remember is ennui and a trapped feeling. School sucked so bad, and no control over your own life. I want to know what sort of idyllic childhood the people who write this stuff had? I wasn’t abused or anything, it just sucks being a kid.
Your early 20’s are the best, imo. You get more freedom from adulthood, but the responsibilities come in a lot slower. You get less restrictions from childhood, but still bear some of the securities and comforts.
Half way through your 20’s you get a “quarter life crisis” and you realise that you need to get shit together. That’s when life gets real and your childhood truly ends.
At least thats my experience. Ever since I turned 30, my anxiety has been growing to a point where now I even loose sleep over it some days. Which is something I’d never done before.
“ennui and a trapped feeling … no control over your own life”
That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we’re willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.
As a kid, there is at least the feeling of “I’ll grow up and it will be great”, as a working adult it used to be “I’ll retire and it’ll be great”; these days it’s “well, I hope there isn’t teams meetings in the afterlife”.
Nah being a kid sucks ass. I have every control over my life right now. Sure a good chunk of my life is spent working but I like my job. And after work I get to do a whatever I want. And believe me I fucking do whatever I want.
but I like my job
What? But… how?
I’ve finally found a job that I like and the answer is with a lot of courage and a bit of privilege. First and foremost is the privilege part. If you have the privilege of being able to be unemployed for a few months and not die then you can do this, if you’re on the edge of poverty then you can’t afford to. Just another way privilege is a positive feedback cycle. Anyway, with the warning out first, then find the courage to change jobs every few years until you find a place where you say to yourself, “Yeah I can stay here for a long while.”
It’s a lot easier to do when you’re young, but if you have the privilege of being able to go through the unemployment of being between jobs then all you need to do is have the courage to leave your job and look for a better one.
“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail.
Self tests you can do in one day, and a list of jobs that use those skills.
Nurses and hair stylists both need good people skills and good dexterity; totally different jobs with a similar skill set. The book pointed me at a job I’d never considered.
So do I, but not everyone is so lucky!
life is a daisy chain of problems that need to be solved
For me its more like lots of chains of various lengths all tangled together.
Life is just a nintendo controller tangle.
some are born into wireless
That’s an elegant way to describe the Rube Goldberg machine of bullshit that is life on Earth.
Descaling? My coffee machine has been running daily for 6 years without that made up mumbo-jumbo!
You can do that if you have soft water. Hard city water would cake those conduits with calcium in 6 months.
I live with hard water. Got filters on my sink, shower and I use distilled water for coffee.
Well well look at fancy pants over here with the soft water
Hope you don’t have lead pipes and soft water! Cause those two don’t mix. And by don’t mix I mean do mix, which is why it’s bad.
If you don’t put reptiles in your machine, do you still have to descale it?
Doubt it, but what’s even the point then.
I use instant coffee, I just need a kettle.
Then you need to descale the kettle. Same difference.
You boil a full kettle with citric acid and you’re done.
I’m team pour-over coffee maker. It goes in the dishwasher every now and then. All parts are visible, so I know if it looks groddy.
Chemex here and I just hit it with a denture cleaning tablet once in a while.
That can do in a pinch, but I don’t like the taste of the few instant coffees I’ve tried
I dont prefer it but it lasts forever considering the coffee I watched steve1989 drink out of old MREs. I keep one jar as a backup.
Everything you own is something you need to maintain and service. Scaling back on stuff can give a real sense of freedom.
On the other hand the Dual Fuel Inverter Generator (Propane/Petrol) I got in the basement gives me sense of security.So, did you do the monthly maintenance on the generator? Do you run it for 10 or 15 minutes every month to be sure it starts and runs?
Luckily my tiny 2000W require annual and not monthly maintenance. :)
That maybe worse to remember and harder to make a habit to do.
I only run it on propane, so when I get the BBQ grill out in spring and burn that one I do the generator too. The “clean” parts of the schedule are a lot simpler if you don’t run it on petrol.
Reminds me. I have to do that to my ice maker soon
TYPE LOUDER, I CAN’T HEAR YOU YOUNG MAN!
Seriously, this is by far the worse part about getting older.
It effects health too, cause it’s not dealing with pain that’s annoying, it’s the ever increasing amount of upkeep you have to do to maintain your body.
2 days ago!
…After 6 months of the light blinking.
Thanks for reminding me to order descaler
White vinegar isn’t enough? How hard is your water?
Damn, I need to descale my machine. It’s been… quite a long time since I last dealt with it.
I have a hard enough time remembering to flush the group head every few weeks.
Thanks for the reminder to flush the group head.
you guys are getting group head?
Living the lifestyle ethically is more work then being monogamous with someone.
But if its what everyone wants who am I to say no? I’ll do my best.
Look, I just want to have a sand pit and be a dinosaur again
