You just want a break sometimes

life is a daisy chain of problems that need to be solved
- For me its more like lots of chains of various lengths all tangled together.
  
  Life is just a nintendo controller tangle.
- That's an elegant way to describe the Rube Goldberg machine of bullshit that is life on Earth.

Everything you own is something you need to maintain and service. Scaling back on stuff can give a real sense of freedom.
On the other hand the Dual Fuel Inverter Generator (Propane/Petrol) I got in the basement gives me sense of security.
- So, did you do the monthly maintenance on the generator? Do you run it for 10 or 15 minutes every month to be sure it starts and runs?
  
  Luckily my tiny 2000W require annual and not monthly maintenance. :)

Descaling? My coffee machine has been running daily for 6 years without that made up mumbo-jumbo!
- You can do that if you have soft water. Hard city water would cake those conduits with calcium in 6 months.
  
  I live with hard water. Got filters on my sink, shower and I use distilled water for coffee.
- Well well look at fancy pants over here with the soft water
  
  Hope you don't have lead pipes and soft water! Cause those two don't mix. And by don't mix I mean do mix, which is why it's bad.
- If you don't put reptiles in your machine, do you still have to descale it?
  
  Doubt it, but what's even the point then.
- I use instant coffee, I just need a kettle.
  
  I'm team pour-over coffee maker. It goes in the dishwasher every now and then. All parts are visible, so I know if it looks groddy.
  
  That can do in a pinch, but I don't like the taste of the few instant coffees I've tried
  
  Then you need to descale the kettle. Same difference.

I will take being an adult with responsibility over being a child any day. All I remember is ennui and a trapped feeling. School sucked so bad, and no control over your own life. I want to know what sort of idyllic childhood the people who write this stuff had? I wasn't abused or anything, it just sucks being a kid.
- "ennui and a trapped feeling ... no control over your own life"
  That describes adulthood for a lot more people than we're willing to admit. Adulthood often has the illusion of more choices, but for many those choices have one realistic option.
  As a kid, there is at least the feeling of "I'll grow up and it will be great", as a working adult it used to be "I'll retire and it'll be great"; these days it's "well, I hope there isn't teams meetings in the afterlife".
  
  That depends on your childhood I guess! "Please let is be over with." was mine.
  
  Nah being a kid sucks ass. I have every control over my life right now. Sure a good chunk of my life is spent working but I like my job. And after work I get to do a whatever I want. And believe me I fucking do whatever I want.
- Your early 20's are the best, imo. You get more freedom from adulthood, but the responsibilities come in a lot slower. You get less restrictions from childhood, but still bear some of the securities and comforts.
  Half way through your 20's you get a "quarter life crisis" and you realise that you need to get shit together. That's when life gets real and your childhood truly ends.
  At least thats my experience. Ever since I turned 30, my anxiety has been growing to a point where now I even loose sleep over it some days. Which is something I'd never done before.

2 days ago!
...After 6 months of the light blinking.

Damn, I need to descale my machine. It's been... quite a long time since I last dealt with it.
I have a hard enough time remembering to flush the group head every few weeks.
- Thanks for the reminder to flush the group head.
  
  you guys are getting group head?

Seriously, this is by far the worse part about getting older.
It effects health too, cause it’s not dealing with pain that’s annoying, it’s the ever increasing amount of upkeep you have to do to maintain your body.

Thanks for reminding me to order descaler
- White vinegar isn't enough? How hard is your water?

The more shit you buy the more your shit owns you

Look, I just want to have a sand pit and be a dinosaur again

I wish it would just be these small scale maintenance tasks with clear purpose and results. But instead it's endless uncertainty and insecurity about your health and job and finances where you never know if you have done enough or if your efforts even matter. Keep grinding every day just to be rug pulled by something you could not have anticipated or have no control over. Descaling coffee machine is simple and rewarding: you see a problem, you have the means to address the problem, you do the thing and you have the satisfaction of a job done also reaping the benefits immediately.

Do what now?

TYPE LOUDER, I CAN'T HEAR YOU YOUNG MAN!

Reminds me. I have to do that to my ice maker soon

Last year. Lucky me I have good water. I should do it again

this is why I brew espresso with bottled water. Scale will really fuck it up. I make pour overs with my approx 200 TDS local tap swill though because I'm a basic bitch

Wait 'til the point where those mundane elements are the basis of your stability, and a positive aspect of your self-confidence (I keep my coffee machi e deacaled successfully)

What a dogshit example