I’ve been thinking of setting some goals for the month. I lost my primary hobby (temporarily 🤞), so I’ve just been reading and spending ungodly amounts of time on Lemmy & Reddit. I want to spend my time in a more healthy and fulfilling way…
What are some goals you all are working towards? What are your hobbies that make you feel fulfilled? What’s something that makes you look forward to the (near) future?
In no specific order, my current goals are: losing weight, learning Sanskrit, cross-breeding hot peppers, write my book.
Everything on that list is super intriguing, but I really wanna hear about your hot pepper project 👀
It’s actually a quite dumb project, involving dedo-de-moça (Capsicum baccatum) x bell peppers (Capsicum annuum). Target characteristics:
- heat - mild but still present
- flavour - fruitier, more dedo-de-moça-like than bell pepper-like
- size - intermediate
- higher frost and heat tolerance
If everything goes well, then I’m going to introduce habanero into the mix, to create a second variety that packs some actual heat.
I want to write a video game that convinces the player to become a better person.
I want it engaging enough to keep people’s attention while the subtext works on them.
Kind of like undertale but specifically targeting the lost generations of the alt-right.
That sounds super cool
I wanted to study computer science, but I needed to do a calculus-like course in order to qualify. Unfortunately, I didn’t have this course during high school, so now I’m doing something called “Adult education”, which allows me to catch up with this missed course. If everything goes well (and it seems like it!), I’ll finish the course in May 2024 and enroll in September, after summer break!
Besides that, I’m also a bit bored lol. I was working on this programming project of mine, but I’ve almost finished it. Unit tests are the only things left and I don’t like writing those, so I’m procrastinating.
Something that (sort of) makes me fulfilled, is going to the gym. I’ll be honest, I don’t really like the workout itself, but after a couple of months, I have seen actual muscle growth in my shoulders, back, and (upper) arms and it feels like I’m actually making progress. This has only encouraged me and now I’m lifting 18kg for the dumbbell press :D
Learning Spanish, by the way if anyone wants to join, we have a small Spanish speaking community in !esp@lemm.ee
I also try to post to !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz from time to time
I’ve been learning Japanese and Norwegian through the Duolingo app for the past few months.
Japanese because I lived in Japan for 3 years, about 2 decades ago, and want to sharpen my language skills so I can return one day.
Norwegian because my ancestry is Norwegian and my family line used to all speak Norwegian and English, until my grandfather passed away when my dad was 2. My dad never learned Norwegian, and so neither did I. The line was broken, but I’d like to start up that tradition again. Besides, my dad and I found living descendants of our ancestors in Norway and visited them about a decade ago. I’d love to visit them again and be able to speak in their native tongue this time instead of English.
I’d also like to learn French and German. I took 4 years of French in high school, but it didn’t stick very well, so I want to make a proper effort to learn it again. And I spent 2 years living in Germany and enjoyed the language, so I’d like to improve what little German I learned while I was there.
For French, feel free to join !forumlibre@jlai.lu, it’s the French equivalent of !casualconversation@lemmy.world. There is also !france@jlai.lu, but it’s mostly news oriented. Jlai.lu has a few other communities too, you can have a look at the sidebar of !forumlibre@jlai.lu
