Little Luxuries (SFW)

I bring good chocolate to work (usually Ghirardelli) and have it after I eat my lunch.
It's 5 minutes of my day that I look forward to and always enjoy.

 

Flannel sheets in the winter. Too hot in the summer, but just right for the chill. I run warm so my gf is buried under the sheet, blanket, and down comforter until she overheats sometime overnight. Then the comforter gets jammed against my back. But I just need the sheet until around 4 or 5 in the morning when I finally need the blanket. Or I pull the blanket over me to warm up in the morning for five minutes before I actually get out of bed.

 

I've developed a coke habit.


Mexi-Coke


To my totally biased taste, it's what Coke used to taste like. Fortunately, it's readily available by the case around here.

 

Fresh ground coffee on the weekends. Nothing elaborate as Rogue's gear, just a small grinder (that has more bells & whistles than a small grinder needs).

Angus Rib eye steak once in while. From Sam' Club because it's (sort of) affordable, and of much better quality than Kroger RES.

 

I love doing my own coffee. I'm always reminded of the rule of 15s:

Babbie's Rule of Fifteens:

• Green (unroasted) coffee beans should be roasted within 15 months, or they go stale.
  
• Roasted coffee beans should be ground within 15 days, or they go stale.
  
• Ground coffee should be used within 15 minutes, or it goes stale.
  
• Extracted coffee should be served within 15 seconds.

So, I try not to grind too much at once. I'm also fortunate - one of my neighbours runs a local roastery, so whatever beans I buy are freshly roasted

My only time I grind a chunk is if I'm going camping - still need the coffee, just can't take the grinder!

 

My own 300 yard shooting range, but even better, I trashed my last piece of ugly, cheap furniture (an old overstuffed chair), and parked a new small practice amp next to my "man chair" in the living room. My gf hated that chair, so now she has something new to complain about.

 

Mentioning gun range.....

For me, and my wife, visits are a luxury and an unspoken responsibility.

The range fee is very affordable, but ammo expenses add up very quickly.

OTOH if I'm ready to use guns to protect my family & property, and carry, I need to be reasonably proficient with my main firearms.

 

I use a Porlex grinder with an Aeropress for camping. You gotta work a bit for your coffee; but the coffee tastes very good and the two stack into a very small package.

 

My daughter has taken up volleyball, and several times a month she and my wife are gone the entire weekend, with traveling to the tournaments.

This means I have the house to myself without the worry that my wife will barge into the room and start an argument simply because that's what she does.



Seriously, this is like being single again. Pretty damned awesome.

 

You left out the very low chance getting caught having a





second bowl of ice cream.

 

Fuck that- I can eat right out of the goddamn container if I want!


#Winning!

 

My luxury is that I have a weight cage that can handle 1500 lbs (not that I can lift that much) at home and about 600 pounds of weights, that I can lift without a whole gym of people staring at me. Woot. Sometimes being the strongest guy in a gym is tiresome, especially when you don't want to stop every 5 minutes to discuss what you are doing with the 'gym bros'. I go to a Planet Fitness for cardio and fluff work.