That's great! Whenever I'm feeling down, his books are mental comfort food that help me re-center. GNU sir Pterry!
Roots by Alex Haley The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution by Feng Jicai
Seconding Valheim. There's nothing quite like starting with a simple objective, getting it derailed by a deathsquito or something and now you and your besties are trying to Oceans 11 the stuff you lost out of a hostile biome that you sailed to from across the map.
KEXP.org is free streaming and has a huge variety of music. It's indy, run by human DJs, and has an app. They play just about every music type and publish their playlist live. Try that for new music. I find new stuff to listen to every week ( I find stuff to like in every genre, but if you're more particular, then you might have to scope out the schedule to see when the genres you like get play)
Great call on lifting casters. I'm planning a project for a drill press stand myself and thanks to this thread I'm getting some good notes!