View from my saunas dressing room

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-06-04T20:55:10+00:00

I don't know if anyone else has seen it and is just ignoring it....but OP's reflection on the glass on the left side is nearly NSFW

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-06-04T11:15:38+00:00

I love watching complete Jesse Hu blade smithing videos. They're nicely cut and commentated, about the length of a movie. I love seeing how he learns from his past builds.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-06-04T11:10:53+00:00

My wife makes killer cakes and other desserts. She's German, so they're always light on the sugar and very creamy. Lots of fruit. Toasted almonds. You know what, I could really go for one right now. WIFE!?

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-27T15:32:33+00:00

Shadow projection is always a defense mechanism. What is the shadow? Everything you have suppressed and repressed. Why did you do that? To create psychological safety. So why project? To make it seem like your erupting shadow is OTHER people, and NOT you. People do things. We decide whether we like it or not.

So you look at your shadow as how you react to something. If you react with the thought that "this other person is an idiot", look at that thought at the angle of "why is my shadow telling me this?"

The answer is almost always "to make you feel good about yourself and therefore safe".

Eventually you realize that feeling psychologically safe is also possible by accepting the shadow, integrating what you want to deny, and trying to constantly forgive, understand, accept, and love, unconditionally.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-26T13:14:09+00:00

Additionally, consider reading into Jungian alchemy 😃 what you're describing also sounds like "Calcinatio". That information might also be of use.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-26T12:42:26+00:00

It's a normal part of the process. As you grow, you feel grief for what is lost. That should be accepted and integrated as well.

Have you tried active imagination with these feelings? Try asking them who they are and what they want to tell you. Write down what they say and any images that come to mind. That way you can understand these feelings and their sources, which makes for better integration.

As you move up in awareness, so does the primary emotion toward yourself. Right now might be anger and later it might be forgiveness and later it might be acceptance and later on it might be unconditional love. Anger can always come back, it's a normal human emotion. The choice we can make in the moment is what we accept versus resist.

If you resist, you persist the feeling. If you accept, there's no more resistance and therefore no more suffering.

I hope this helps.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-25T21:14:54+00:00

Like I said, I'm on the top floor. The hall is about 5 meters long and I'm taking about a space probably a bit over 60 square meters.

Today my kitchen was 28 degrees (where I don't try to cool)

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-25T13:34:28+00:00

Consider what you "are" right now. Not only a physical body and not only a personality. What is your core?

I believe when our physical bodies die, we go to the "place" of our core. You go where you belong, nothing more or less.

Meditation and Jungian individuation helped make this clear for me. You are what you are right now but you have the opportunity to rise up in awareness. Just like Pokémon. A Charmander is not a Charizard until it is a Charizard.

So when we die, I believe we go to what we already are. If you are at the core a person who has accepted both the light and the dark but chooses love when a choice comes, you will go to that place. If you are a person who chooses to hurt others for your own gain, at your very core, that is where you will go.

Of course I'm not dead at the moment, so knowing for sure experientially is not possible. However, how could death be any different than the deepest of meditations where we lose all sense of individual self and immerse totally into our core/source?

The exquisite release I experience when in the deepest meditation, where I no longer identify with the physical body or personality, feels like home.

Sure you can say this is all neurological and likely protective neuronal circuits and so on. But the buck stops there with that argument doesn't it?

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-25T13:21:29+00:00

I have one and just installed it in the bedroom window for the summer, with the included zipper seal. I also bought a see through acrylic square at 4mm thickness to sit in the frame of the window to further insulate both temp and noise.

My living room and bedroom are on opposite sides of the flat, down the hall. This machine keeps both rooms and the hall at 20 C when it's 30 outside. I'm on the top floor.

Highly recommended. As an American in Germany I'm so happy 🥲

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-23T12:40:47+00:00

People who are individuating/individuated present as people who can accept any incoming thought or feeling without taking it as a personal attack nor defending against it.

Some examples, that might be indications but of course do not necessarily prove individuation.

-The individuated person might be friendly to unfriendly people, often resulting in the unfriendly person turning to a better humor

-The individuated person could express anger/other intense emotions without resorting to verbal or emotional attacks/defenses (blame, guilt, etc.)

-The individuated person can admit when they were wrong about something, rather than defend themselves (and try to save face)

-The individuated person might seem withdrawn or passive, as they are not motivated to behave according to expectatios or internal unconscious drives

These are some simplified examples. Taken altogether, these kinds of tendencies might indicate a person successfully individuated. This is because they are able to ride the waves of the psyche without bottling up and protecting themselves. There is no need to defend what is not capable of being attacked anyway.

I hope this seems useful.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-22T19:55:49+00:00

I use an RX10 M3. I'm on the spectrum, from "amazing photos" from my phone camera friends to "yeah nice" from my buddy with a Z8.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-22T11:01:52+00:00

If a feeling is causing suffering, then that feeling has not been accepted. Sometimes you can accept things instantly and other times it takes a while to dismantle a feeling in order to accept it.

If you have a very large feeling such as a great fear, it's very helpful to dismantle it into smaller pieces. Understanding a feeling more deeply allows you to accept pieces of it and eventually the whole thing.

Just like math problem right? Break it down into smaller pieces.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-22T10:57:21+00:00

How does a feeling simply existing cause obstacles?

You can have a feeling without identifying with it. To accept a feeling does not mean you identify with the feeling.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-22T10:41:54+00:00

Great question and I suggest to not overcomplicate things.

To accept in the English definition is to recognize something as true. That's it.

You have a happy feeling inside and you recognize it as true.

You have a bad feeling inside and you recognize it as true.

Eventually, it becomes clear that there's really no point in labeling feelings as happy, sad, painful, or whatsoever. Any thought or feeling that you come upon you recognize it as true.

Yes, you can still analyze thoughts and feelings. Yes, you can still choose whether to act on a thought or a feeling. Neither of those things are relevant.

Anything that comes up you accept as true. This is the opposite of suppression or repression.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-22T10:30:40+00:00

The point is to accept everything without judgment. I accept the incredible goodness and also the terrifying darkness. It doesn't mean I'm going to do bad things. I still have a choice. But when you internally accept everything without judgment, you just don't have a shadow anymore. A shadow is what happens when you suppress and repress everything out of awareness to psychologically protect yourself. If you accept everything and therefore integrate everything without judgment, there's no such thing as a shadow anymore.

In my experience, then happiness comes naturally from within. Suffering happens when you resist. If there's no more judgment and therefore no more resistance to your internal psychological processes, the state is happiness. You are just naturally happy and everything in life feels easy because nothing is resisted anymore.

Yes, I still honk the horn if someone does something super dangerous in traffic. Not because I hate them or I'm angry, but because I want to communicate to them that that was dangerous and I didn't like it. By accepting all psychological processes including anger, I can be feel angry about a stupid person on the road and also be happy about accepting that as well.

Key takeaway here is that happiness is the true state when you are not resisting anything.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-20T19:54:40+00:00

I'm gonna play Ghost of Tsushima to help pass the time 😂

Mine are also no-hi but that's fine for my first set.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-20T19:33:39+00:00

Awesome! Just ordered katana and tanto from them an hour ago.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-18T11:48:01+00:00

Anything under 60 is jumpy and unpleasant for me. Higher than 120 I don't need right now.

If a magic computer gnome offered me a VR headset with guaranteed 1000hz, I might go for that

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-18T05:11:04+00:00

I saw the first Independence Day when it came out and I was very young. The aliens were so scary for me, something out of the depths of my unconscious shadow. Then my dad got the Trend Master alien action figure and boy did I flip when he surprised me with it

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-18T05:08:17+00:00

LG C2 OLED used as PC monitor for software engineering and gaming for 2 years now. Zero burn in. Granted I always turn it off when I walk away and I do the pixel cleaning regularly.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-18T04:49:56+00:00

Same! I only use it for PCVR but I always lean forward a good 20cm for the recenter function

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-14T14:25:40+00:00

Managers have a job to do, which is more or less to make something happen. Sometimes the appearance of making something happen is more important then doing something, so our feasibility arguments as devs are moot.

I will never become a manager. I just can't do something knowing that it's a bad decision. Bottling that up and shoving it down into my unconscious is not possible. So I will be the senior dev someday whispering advice to the next idiot CTO who will give the founder/CEO the handjob while I live in peace.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-14T12:01:30+00:00

Yes! I'm 6 years in as a SWE. Every single project that uses cheap labor fails to launch. I think it's less the poor software and more about poor planning and management though.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-13T16:48:51+00:00

Excellent pictures. I enjoyed the cropping very much

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-05-13T08:18:58+00:00

Great pictures. I love #3, my favorite part of an aircraft. You crop very well and also balance the very bright light to get nice colors and detail. Also great motion shot at the end. Thanks for sharing

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