Things that rock

[maradydd]

• Unexpectedly having a friend over to work on a cool project. ("This is not / the greatest exploit in the world / This is just a tribute...")
• Connecting people who are doing interesting things, so that together they can do even more interesting things.
• Friends getting awesome new jobs. (Congratulations, ephermata! You totally deserve it and I think you'll have a great time there.)
• My new thermos carafe, which cost me pocket change and keeps coffee drinkably hot all night.
• Interesting new-to-me local drinking rituals. (Obtain a beer glass, a shot glass, and an unfiltered, hoppy beer of your choice. Chill and allow yeast to settle. Carefully pour beer into beer glass, leaving yeast-heavy portion at the bottom. Fill shot glass with remainder of beer. To adjust the flavour of your beer, add yeasty stuff from shot glass. Watch beer's head foam up every time you add yeast. Dork out about how cool biology is (optional). Drink beer.)
• Saronno shots, jenever shots, Black Balzams shots, and no hangover in the morning!
• New friends who have lived fascinating lives, so very different from my own, yet who share very similar ideals and desires. Not necessarily "goals" per se, but "want to live in the same kind of world, doing things every day to make the world a little more like that." I am continually in awe of how big the world is, and how many interesting people there are in it, just a step or two outside of our immediate scope of experience.
• Nutella on fresh bread in the morning, with coffee from mocha coffee beans (the real kind, not the kind doped with chocolate).
• Reading some interesting papers and helping someone out in the process.
• A good, solid night's sleep.

I would also say "this totally awesome bed", but I really do need to get up and get on with my day; there are errands to be run and things to be written.

Hope you all have a lovely day. :)

Comments

[michiexile]

I just spent about 20 Euro on classic Jazz records at 1€/CD. Full albums from Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Charles Mingus et.c.

Happy-awesome-music-wheeee!

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

Which carafe? I have a 16oz Thermos mug that I adore, but I could use a larger one too.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

I got it at Hema, which is kind of like the local equivalent of Target. Surprisingly well-made for 6.25EUR.

[ephermata.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Looking forward to it. Looks like we might be able to resolve the other stuff too, which is good.