I admit I've always been a social and friendly person. My spouse and I have traveled and I almost always during the trip end up befriending someone and getting a way to stay in contact, with many I even end up visiting in subsequent trips that pass through the same area.
But for friends from before my 30s and even before my 20s? That is different. Most of my closest friends we've scattered across the planet in our travels and lifestyles, so it is less in person there. Writing letters, sending messages, gifts, postcards, the like is how we do it.
My biggest suggestion is to find a hobby and use that to build a bridge.
Before I had gotten my fountain pen which I've been using for about 8 years now, Pilot G2 gel pens worked just fine, but had a habit of getting too warm for me in the desert heat.
When I pick up my spouse from work in the mornings, I go a little early and relax in the parking lot with a book, reading through it, having my MP3 player for classical music. I've read through six novels this year, though small ones (only between 300 to 400 pages).
I play three D&D campaigns, two as a DM one as a player, which help be self-care for me. Same with playing games on my handheld emulator, and tending to my V-Pets.
And my big one is my various plants I tend to. I have the flowers and herbs in the kitchen (zinnias, marigolds, gardenias, basil, and chives), while in my office I have pintos, peppers, onions, lettuce, celery, and a few houseplants growing. Outside I have my potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, and squash as it is summer, when it turns to winter I'll change to garlic under hay in the beds and large pots, while the cold-frame beds I have will grow lettuce and carrots.
Soldering alone wouldn't work. The house is a monolithic dome, so it has over 20 inches of concrete for the outer most dome layer. I'd have to drill with masonry bolts and risk cracking the concrete of the house for it.
During the last winter even when it was snowing and in the single-digits outside, we didn't have to turn on the heating for the house using the boiler. By dressing the house up, and ourselves dressing up a bit, the house was plenty warm and comfortable.
I was unable to get solar panels for my house, due to the city's rulings. My house being a dome lacks a traditional roof for solar panels, and the city has a lot of strict rulings against solar panels not on roofs, mostly because the city council hates solar energy. Of course, I have small solar panels with power stations in the yard.
The house also is specifically one that is efficient for such purposes, and we practice dressing it up during the year. Currently we have blackout curtains over the windows that get hotter during the day-time barring the south-facing in my office, where I simply close that door. We also have curtains over hallways. While we have to use a rolling air conditioner due to the house's setup, we focus on only cooling the room that we are in or sleep in during the day-time, and during the night even if it is still 70s to 80s outside, we do what we can do to cool the rest of the house.
I have my own garden I grow vegetables and herbs in, as well as having an indoor garden in a south-facing window with a trellis shelf I built. I am able to grow plants year round. I pickle, dehydrate, and similar methods for everything I grow for the purposes of usage throughout the year, including using the brine from pickling for recipes. Also we make stuff during the night-time and put it to cool, making it able to be eaten several meals instead of every meal-time turning on a stove and cooking.
My spouse and I both have knowledge on repair, both around the house but also clothing, adding our own bits of charm when needed. I also have experience with repairing my bicycle as well as repairing my car, having been a mechanic in the past.
One of the hardest parts of these articles is that I love hearing about them, hearing how much people are making progress and change, until I see the locations. I love seeing that a metropolitan area has this, and it warms my heart to see people able to make progress.
My bike is not a cargo bike, just a normal city bike with bags on it, which is satisfactory for the 3 miles of highway I have to bike to the nearest store, and then 3 miles back, ever since the one that was closer had closed down. I do this at night, or first in the morning, as where I live during the daytime it reaches over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, over 39 degrees Celsius.
That and try to pass laws forbidding the continued usage of older computers, since a lot of older tech can still work with Linux well enough.
I admit I've always been a social and friendly person. My spouse and I have traveled and I almost always during the trip end up befriending someone and getting a way to stay in contact, with many I even end up visiting in subsequent trips that pass through the same area.
But for friends from before my 30s and even before my 20s? That is different. Most of my closest friends we've scattered across the planet in our travels and lifestyles, so it is less in person there. Writing letters, sending messages, gifts, postcards, the like is how we do it.
My biggest suggestion is to find a hobby and use that to build a bridge.
Before I had gotten my fountain pen which I've been using for about 8 years now, Pilot G2 gel pens worked just fine, but had a habit of getting too warm for me in the desert heat.
When I pick up my spouse from work in the mornings, I go a little early and relax in the parking lot with a book, reading through it, having my MP3 player for classical music. I've read through six novels this year, though small ones (only between 300 to 400 pages).
I play three D&D campaigns, two as a DM one as a player, which help be self-care for me. Same with playing games on my handheld emulator, and tending to my V-Pets.
And my big one is my various plants I tend to. I have the flowers and herbs in the kitchen (zinnias, marigolds, gardenias, basil, and chives), while in my office I have pintos, peppers, onions, lettuce, celery, and a few houseplants growing. Outside I have my potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, and squash as it is summer, when it turns to winter I'll change to garlic under hay in the beds and large pots, while the cold-frame beds I have will grow lettuce and carrots.
I stand by what I was taught by my grandfather and my father.
Only you'll care if it is off, but if someone comes to the house and says it is wrong, hand them a saw and say get to work.
Of course not, Officer!
That is awesome! You got this little pepper friend!
Soldering alone wouldn't work. The house is a monolithic dome, so it has over 20 inches of concrete for the outer most dome layer. I'd have to drill with masonry bolts and risk cracking the concrete of the house for it.
To add about the dressing house up or down,
During the last winter even when it was snowing and in the single-digits outside, we didn't have to turn on the heating for the house using the boiler. By dressing the house up, and ourselves dressing up a bit, the house was plenty warm and comfortable.
For me I admit not as much as I'd like.
I was unable to get solar panels for my house, due to the city's rulings. My house being a dome lacks a traditional roof for solar panels, and the city has a lot of strict rulings against solar panels not on roofs, mostly because the city council hates solar energy. Of course, I have small solar panels with power stations in the yard.
The house also is specifically one that is efficient for such purposes, and we practice dressing it up during the year. Currently we have blackout curtains over the windows that get hotter during the day-time barring the south-facing in my office, where I simply close that door. We also have curtains over hallways. While we have to use a rolling air conditioner due to the house's setup, we focus on only cooling the room that we are in or sleep in during the day-time, and during the night even if it is still 70s to 80s outside, we do what we can do to cool the rest of the house.
I have my own garden I grow vegetables and herbs in, as well as having an indoor garden in a south-facing window with a trellis shelf I built. I am able to grow plants year round. I pickle, dehydrate, and similar methods for everything I grow for the purposes of usage throughout the year, including using the brine from pickling for recipes. Also we make stuff during the night-time and put it to cool, making it able to be eaten several meals instead of every meal-time turning on a stove and cooking.
My spouse and I both have knowledge on repair, both around the house but also clothing, adding our own bits of charm when needed. I also have experience with repairing my bicycle as well as repairing my car, having been a mechanic in the past.
One of the hardest parts of these articles is that I love hearing about them, hearing how much people are making progress and change, until I see the locations. I love seeing that a metropolitan area has this, and it warms my heart to see people able to make progress.
My bike is not a cargo bike, just a normal city bike with bags on it, which is satisfactory for the 3 miles of highway I have to bike to the nearest store, and then 3 miles back, ever since the one that was closer had closed down. I do this at night, or first in the morning, as where I live during the daytime it reaches over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, over 39 degrees Celsius.
My apologies, I realized that somehow I clicked on this video, and instead was shown a video on Portable Air Conditioners of all things.
This would be fascinating and ideal for many people's homes. Especially if it is a window unit base.
Seeing this non-stop on Reddit, now seeing it migrated here lol.
It is stalking me like my intrusive thoughts to become a hermit in the woods.
Well yeah, they decided to embrace corporate bullshit, that is already a terrible decision.
I'll check out the Matrix, and if alright I can get back to you about other ideas?
I at times have, I am just trying to look at different options in general, if that makes sense
Thank you, I'll check it out
What disgusts me is that this is both.