I have to find my glasses. If your vision was so bad as mine that you can’t find your own glasses, and you’re two days out of work because they fell behind the night stand and you can’t see to find them, you’d understand…

Making coffee and tea for my wife when she wakes up, make the lunchbox for my student son, sometimes also for my wife if she needs to get to the office. Nobody eats breakfast so after that I clean up and fill the dishwasher from last nights dinner, that I cook daily. Inbetween I game, relax, make music, pet the cat.

It is nice being early retired and doing the housekeeping.

I drink coffee on my porch with my wife so we can identify birds and say hi to all the runners and dog walkers.

Thanks for the Anton Petrov recommendation. I’ve been looking for better up to date science reviews, and I was getting sick of the Two Minute Papers channel with its near-constant shilling for Nvidia and OpenAI.

For me, a daily thing I do is sit in my grandmothers armchair, and put my feet up on a small table that also belonged to her, with my laptop on my lap. I realise that sitting is not a super exciting task, but I guess sitting draped in the unconditional love of your deceased grandma’s possessions makes it sound a bit better.

Open the blackout curtains so the bedroom isn’t dark all day. They’re only closed while I sleep (or try to sleep, they typed whilst lying in bed in front of closed blackout curtains).

I do the crossword every morning with my coffee