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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 1, 2024

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What's your favorite small indulgence? Something that is pure luxury, occasional, but small.

-- Scheduling a day so that I can work out with no time crunch at precisely 10:00am. That is the PR time. Fully awake, stretched, nothing can fatigue me yet, ready to go.

-- Taking the long way home to drive through the woods with the windows down, with some kind of iced beverage. With a podcast, with my wife, with my dog. Just depends on who or what I'm hiding from.

-- Buying end of week out of money options on whims and hunches for small sums of money, then spending all week monitoring them to figure out the exact moment to sell. Very very narrow net positive over time, but it's fun in the way poker is fun.

  • Greek yogurt. One of those 500g tubs with 50g of protein and packing it all down with berries, nuts and honey. Quality grubbing. (Also: 1kg tub of cashew butter. Stuff is ludicrously good, but I need to be careful as I can go overboard.)
  • Midweek afternoon at a movie. Don’t do it often, but I almost never regret it. Trouble is, most of the cinema chains don’t show any quality movies nowadays, and I can’t be bothered watching something Marvel. Years ago I watched Coen Brothers movies or arthouse or foreign language pics on a Wednesday at 2pm. Good times.
  • I enjoy doing f* all work in January. Lots of other people are hammering through the fake New Year’s goals. So several days in January I might chop some wood, light the fire and read a whole book in the short daylight hours. Bonus marks if it’s a book set in winter. The Brothers (short book by a Finnish author about Finnish-Russian wars in 1800s) and Julius Winsome (about a man who lives in the woods with his dog until he gets some unwanted visitors) both ticked all boxes.

Idk about your local theaters, but ours have started showing a lot of classics. You pretty much have to check the website to find them.

Am outside the US (assuming you're inside...) But our local cinemas show almost nothing that isn't mainstream and current. Unfortunate, but also it's providers responding to the market. The great films I watched in those places years ago, often it was just me and a couple of others who showed up.

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