The happy thing meme has been helpful. It's a good exercise to think about what made you happy in a given day. Sometimes it's something obvious, usually not; often when I think of it, it makes me happy all over again. I haven't been keeping track of how many days I'm doing it or how many I'm supposed to do. I think I'll just keep on doing it ( Read more... )

I've been tagged! Usually I pretend not to notice, but this one dictates that I post one thing per day that made me happy that day, and that's a good thing, considering how often this blog devolves into complaints.

I was happy today after I installed a new sprayer for the kitchen sink! Also I found a cool Pneu-Dart baseball cap at work that ( Read more... )

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Is it too early to look back at 2008 and try to figure out what it was all about? Nah, let's take a look at the first text posts of each month and see if it adds up to something. ( Read more... )

(I strongly suspect this was composed for teenage girls by teenage girls, probably on MySpace, but I can't resist an urban/rural comparison)

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In the interest of posting something about nothing at all, here's a meme. It's a list of one hundred life experiences, most of which anyone could do if they had the money, some of which are misfortunes, and a few require courage or gumption. I have no idea who compiled this list or why. Things I have done are in bold. Some of them I've actually ( Read more... )

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This is a pretty cool tool. You just type in an address, and it tells you how "walkable" the area is, in terms of how close different services and stores are. My neighborhood scored an 86, which is pretty good but makes me wonder what neighborhood could possibly get a 100. Maybe if you lived in a shopping mall, or in certain parts of New York ( Read more... )