After work is done, and you don’t have any more chores to do, how do you spend your time? What makes up a “good day” for you?
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Currently collecting ebooks and reading, philosophy and some fantasy fiction, Joe Abercrombie.
Books are dense for their entertainment value. 20gb is like 88k ebooks.
I have a crazy boot fetish, mainly riding boots. Put em on with some leather pants and abuse myself (sexually). Huff poppers while I do it. I NEVER get tired of it. It is so good. 10/10, highly recommended. A fetish is a gift.
Spending time with people I care about or chess
Get stoned and play video games with my wife. We just found Unrailed 2 and it’s been a journey.
being in the general vicinity of my girlfriend is big on my list, otherwise time with family, listening to music and soon learning drums :)
I’ve been drumming for over twenty years and can confirm that drums are so much fun it’s unbelievable. Great choice, I hope you enjoy them! :)
yay! I’m probably gonna love it, and my dad knows drums if I ever need lessons. i like hitting things too so win win lol
I retired last year, but it was a horrible year (30-year marriage fell apart, had to sell our house and find a condo, stressful move, etc.), so even though it’s been more than a year, I’ve only recently gotten to the “do what I want” phase. It’s probably somewhat colored by the recent stresses, but I find I really just like staying home and laying low. I read a stupid amount of SF and fantasy, play my guitar, play a bunch of classic wow with online friends, and occasionally go to lunch with real life friends. Maybe I’ll get to the point of wanting to go out and do stuff, but for now I’m happy with the quiet life.
What are your SF recs?
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I keep notes on what I read and have been making an annual post here on Lemmy for a few years running. Here’s my 2025 post with links to the earlier ones. There are so many books across those posts that your eyes might glaze over (the earlier posts are a little lighter on notes, the later ones a little heavier), but I generally try to say whether I like a book or not, and why.
That being said, my favorite author currently writing is Adrian Tchaikovsky, and almost everything he writes is great (and he’s really prolific). I’m currently reading Cage of Souls by him, which I’m enjoying.
If you can tell me the kinds of things you like, I could maybe make more specific recommendations.
Sounds nice to me!
Time to start a band??
Heh, no, I really never play for anyone. I didn’t start learning until I was 30, so even though that’s more than 30 years ago, I’m not great. But I like playing and singing along. I play for the cat. She doesn’t enjoy it.
The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin is a great classic sci-fi novel, if you’re looking for more :)
I’ve read it a couple times, including a year or two ago - it’s held up really, really well.
Check out the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson. It’s a horse girl story but the horse is a several ton fighter spaceship.
I have one of his series on my list - probably Mistborn - but haven’t read it. I mostly read SF, but a decent amount of fantasy too.
FYI I’ve been keeping notes on the things I read - here’s my 2025 post with links to the earlier ones.
Video games. I’m tired all the time from work and that’s all the energy and money I have for.
I think a majority of the global population is in the same boat. Honestly I think it’s a damn shame, like, wasted potential. Human beans are like the most wonderfully complex and hyper-multi purpose machines that exist in the known universe and the tasks some/most of them complete everyday are far too menial to remain fulfilling in the long term.
As someone who self identifies as a human bean, I feel seen
Like to do? A many. But I only can afford to doom scroll or just waste my time on something that requires least amount of my energy.
I want to game like I used in my prime years but my eyes are too strained already after a day of work.
Chill on my patio, play video games, run around on my jet skis, watch the osprey in their nest, watch the Bay shipping and fishing boats.
I got laid off in January and still don’t have enough time in the day, mostly due to general life tasks. But I also spend a lot of time now working on art and walking the city. I’m glad I have a little bit of a nest egg to fall back on since the job search has gone as you expect (still searching though)
I’m involved with my union, so I make union propaganda in my spare time. I also recently started a programming project, it’s an ereader app for The Anarchist Library.
A lot of my time is taken up by my kids. But on a usual day after work:
Listen to podcasts on the way back from work.
Get home and sit around the kids while they run amok and I scroll through my messages and RSS feeds.
Sort out the kid’s and my own dinner and then get them ready for bed. Putting them to sleep takes over an hour. I play games on the Steam Deck in the dark at this time and have an attachment to hold my phone above the Steam Deck screen so I can watch TV shows and movies on this dual screen gaming setup.
After bed time there’s usually enough time for a workout in the garage and one other activity (usually a project I have going, something I’m learning or life admin).
The weekends are this same stuff padded out with trips out to keep the kids entertained.
I can’t imagine a life in which I’m stuck trying to figure out what to do with my time. Even if I’m off work and the kids are looked after, there are still and endless number of things I want to read, write, hear, watch, learn, practice and make.
The hobbies I have are working on my comic, playing some video games, or planning for my next dnd session. I find it hard to really sink in to something for awhile now, probably because I’ve only got about an hour of unstructured time on the weekdays. Weekends can swing wildly but I just find myself unable to really sit and enjoy doing it. I kinda just do one of the three in piecemeal whenever I find the time for it now.
Recently I’ve hurt my foot so I took a week off. The past couple days is when I’ve recovered enough that I don’t feel the need to be on bed rest for the whole day. Yesterday was the first time I’ve played a video game for over an hour in one sitting in what felt like ages.
I enjoy the daily good walk with my dog. When he is happy I am happy. Maybe it is a chore because it must be done but I’m happy to do so even the days when it initially sucks to leave home.
Aerobic exercise (despite the difficulties), karaoke, doing a couple French-learning lessons, reading some BD, working on an article to share, cooking something interesting.
