u/bizzare_bomb021

I had a pretty depressing realisation this morning while making coffee. I have officially crossed the threshold. I am now the exact type of boring adult I used to roll my eye at.

Tbh I don't even have interesting hobbies anymore, I just have really specific, weirdly passionate opinions about household crap. I've someone developed this mental checklist of completely boring things that make me way too happy.

For example:

The lid mechanisms on OXO containers. there is a stupid level of satisfaction i get when i push that little button down and it seals perfectly. why do i care so much about airtight cereal? i don't know, but i do.

Office chair backs. i spent like twenty minutes on Saturday watching a kickstarter demo for this lavenne r9 pro chair just because the backrest pivots when you lean forward. i don't even own the thing, but my brain immediately went, yeah, that actually makes sense because i slouch like a goblin when i type. my youth is officially dead.

Costco trash bags. the weird dopamine hit of going to costco and remembering to restock the Kirkland heavy-duty bags. The ones with the red drawstrings that actually dont rip when you stuff way too many cardboard boxes into them. it is genuinely a highlight of my week (yes, my week).

Socks that don't quit. finding a brand of cotton socks that survives more than ten trips through the dryer without the ankle elastic giving up on life. i will definetly talk your ear off about these socks at a dinner party if you let me.

If the younger version of me saw me right now, drinking coffee and pondering chair mechanisms and trash bag durability, they would assume something went terribly wrong with my life.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who has developed strong opinions about containers, trash bags, socks, and chair mechanisms.

Been trying to get concert tickets for me and my parents and this is way more annoying than I expected lol. There are tickets everywhere, just somehow never 3 decent ones together.

Either we split up or the only seats left are way up high with a million stairs. My mom's knees are kinda bad too so thats not really happening.

I have been digging through veritickets trying to find something lower down and preferable near an aisle. Honestly don't even care about being close to the stage anymore.

Just want the three of us sitting together, not climbing half the arena, and hopefully having a nice night without me stressing over the seats whole time.

I work from home a few days a week, and by the time 5 PM on Friday hits, my desk is usually a mild disaster. It's just a slow accumulation of stry coffee mugs, random sticky notes, and a weird amount of snack crumbs.

I used to just shut my laptop and immediately run away for the weekend. But then monday morning would roll around, and sitting down to a mess instantly put me in a bad mood before I even opened an email.

So recently, I started forcing myself to do a 10-minute desk reset right before logging off. I put on the same short jazz playlist, clear out the mugs, toss the useless post-its, and run my little hoto vacuum over the keyboard and the dusty cable corners.

honestly, nothing about the actual cleaning changed, but giving it a fixed order and a soundtrack stopped it from feeling like an annoying chore. It feels like a physical way of telling my brain that the work week is ACTUALLY over.

Do you guys have any weirdly specific rituals for dumb household tasks?

Been seeding stuff off my nas for a while now, mostly linux isos and my own backups. Isp's started throttling anything that looks like torrent traffic even when it's completely legal, speeds tank hard during seeding.

been on xvpn for other stuff for a while now, my country blocks a ton of stuff and most of the mainstream vpns just don't work here at all, xvpn's one of the few that actually holds up which is why i default to it. only issue is it doesn't support port forwarding at all, which kinda sucks since a lot of my seeding setup relies on that

not really looking at free tiers since this is a daily thing at this point, more curious if it's worth switching to something with forwarding support or if i should just find a workaround and stick with what i've got. also curious if kill switch matters much here or if that's overkill

I am the kind of person who changes position every 15 minutes during the workday.

Every desk setup guide seems to start with the same picture. Sir straight, feet flat.l, elbows at 90. That works for me for maybe 10 minutes before I'm leaning towards the screen to read something, sitting sideways during a call, or slumping back while answering emails.

And once I move, half the stuff that felt perfectly adjusted five minutes ago suddenly is not in the right place anymore.

I always assumed I was just bad at sitting properly. Lately I have been looking at chairs again and somehow ended up with the tabs open for stuff like the Herman Miller Embody and Lavender R9 Pro.

Then actually I started paying attention to how ridiculous my own workday looks. Emails, I'm leaned back. Anything involving spreadsheets or tiny text, I am basically on the edge of the seat. Calls, one leg is probably under me.

So I am starting to think the whole fine your correct sitting position and stay there thing just is not realistic for me. I probably need my setup to be a little more forgiving for the fact that I do not sit still.

Anyone else constantly moving around while they work, or do people actually manage to stay in one position for hours?

I'm planning my first concert trip to korea and wow, I was way too confident at first.

I thought the hard part was just getting a ticket.

Then I started reading about passport names, real name rules, transfers, local ticket apps, different entry procedures...

And I'm already stressed lol.

The worst part is I'm terrible with directions, and my korean is basically good enough to order food and ask where the bathroom is.

So now I can fully picture myself outside the venue with my bag, staring at maps, someone explaining something to me in Korean, and me panic scrolling through my ticket page.

That's why when I look at tickets on Verititickets now, I'm not even checking the seat first.

My brain immediately goes:

Wait... How do I actually get into this show ?

Going to concerts in the US never made me think this hard.

Apparently buying ticket and actually knowing how to use it are two completely different things.

Korea concert veterans, please save me from one stupid rookie mistake. Whats the thing people usually forget untill they are already at the venue?

If you got selected, how many questions did you complete. For sde role, I did 4 on 4 and wasn't able to complete 5th dsa.