I mowed my lawn, changed my oil, and conditioned my car’s leather today. What man stuff did you do that made you feel good?

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1. Beat my meat.

2. Took a great nap

3. I made breakfast for my family, helped my kids get dressed for daycare and did my daughter’s hair.

4. Put together a bike for the mother in law.

5. Baked an apple pie for the neighbours and took care of my roses

6. Leg day

7. I found a method for gas chromatography separation and calculation for two chemicals that I proposed we use to my boss instead of fooling around with trying to stumble through figuring an in-house one.

   Then I came home and grilled lamb chops

8. Went to visit my mom and helped her in the garden. And despite knowing she’s messy as fuck, I kept my cool.
   She’s not a hoarder or senile or something, but in the 14 hours I was there, she misplaced her car keys and phone 9 times.

   Additionally, she *never* puts tools back where she got them, so I just got used to bring my own tools now, because otherwise, just finding a measuring tape is a feature-length adventure.

   Decided to put on summer tyres on my car too. Not sure if I’m getting soft at 35 or if the mechanics just keep tightening the nuts even tighter every year. But I didn’t throw anything around. And lacking something like a steel pipe to increase my leverage on the spanner, I got to literally jump on the spanner I had, and was able to have fun doing it.

   The garage next door wants 20€ for a complete tyre change, so I don’t really know why I’m still doing it myself. Maybe because apart from mowing lawns, it was the first ever source of my “child laboring” income.
   Maybe it’s an attempt to stay relevant: I can’t change the tyres on my mom’s and GF’s new car for example. Even with the rusted-in bolts out, the rims are fused so hard onto the mount I have to exert myself for 3 hours to get them off, it’s insane. And then there are sensors for air pressure I’d have to set up…

   Listen…I’m a programmer by trade, but there are certain rabbit holes I don’t wanna dive into. Just like, ew, printers.

9. I got married today. That has to count. I’m literally writing this from my wedding reception.

10. I cut a bunch of logs for firewood and practiced shooting my crossbow.

11. Preparing for my move to my new job across the country.

12. Installed a mini-spit AC/heat in my office cabin last weekend. I’m very please with it. Nice to work in a temperature controlled environment again.

13. I helped a friend clean out their garage, mowed the lawn, and BBQed/ate a whole chicken

14. Flew my kid around like an airplane

15. Did laundry (including the sheets/blankets from both bedrooms), deep cleaned the downstairs bathroom in preparation for having company tomorrow, and baked a strawberry shortcake for my friend’s birthday.

16. I am single, I cooked breakfast, noticed after a rain the culvert under my driveway was clogged causing water to flood the road and front yard so I dug it out, and I rebuilt a Edelbrock 600cfm carburetor on my 1970 Chevelle SS.

17. I went to work and did work shit to pay for the little I have. It’s mostly office work but had to unload some deliveries with the fork lift. One dude didn’t even have a pallet jack in his truck and had to lift ours to his truck. I really hate the freight haulers that don’t have a pallet jack on their truck. Another one today was clearly a newbie and I’m not the most experienced warehouse guy.

18. I grilled meat.

19. Took a load to the dump, put the trailer away when I got home.

    Changed the oil in the tractor and topped off the other fluids. Mowed the neighbors field (Fire prevention) and changed the tractor back to excavator mode.

    Helped my wife in her garden.

    Checked on the livestock. Checked the sprinklers on the new trees. Watered other trees and bushes around the place.

    Played with the dog, and the ducklings.

    Made dinner and then cleaned up from that.

    Now I’m browsing Reddit while my roleplaying group is dinking around.

20. I spent 7 hours pulling stumps with my f150 while drinking beer.

21. Not die again. My survival skills are too strong. I fucking hate it.

22. Took my son hiking.

23. Had sex.

24. Hit a bucket of golf balls at the “before 8:00 AM” discount price before going back home for the chores.

25. I made major progress in my “get my best friend laid” scheme.

26. Uhm… I did ride my e-scoot for hour and a half. Thats about it.

27. I snapped my carrot.