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My sprogs. A nice day after shitty weather. Beer. Comedy. Takeaway food. Getting into a freshly made bed after a long day. Sea swimming in the summer.

goth latinas

Speedball lines of opiates and cocaine.

Not having to go to work, quit work at 40, am now 60.

Books. This year I’ve caught up with harry Dresden and Carl & doughnut. Piranesi was great. A solid recommend. Sanderson’s Tailored Realities was a nice collection of snapshots into different parts of his universe

Honestly I don't remember anymore. Everything seems exhausting to me.

This thread has been very wholesome. Good to see people living good lives. Usually my feed is just doom and gloom so thanks for this post OP.

Every morning my two youngest kids (under 5) get up around 7:00 AM. The first thing they want to do is sit on my lap in the recliner while I either read to them or turn on one of their TV shows and we just chill for an hour. We do this every day and it's my favorite part of the day.

I'm a simple man... I see a cat and I pet it. This makes the brain produce the happy juice.

Crashing fresh ice. Especially the one that has air underneath. It crackles really nice. It is very satisfying experience.

Toddlers. Seeing toddlers stumbling about and discovering their world is fascinating to me.

During the Covid Quarantine, I took up the guitar again, after having quit playing decades ago. I was terrible back then, but I've practiced every day, and become pretty good.

My primary objective was to be able to sit and play my guitar good enough to entertain myself, and I've accomplished it. I can fingerpick about 30 songs start to finish, most with my own arrangements, and about 5 originals that I think are pretty good. I've also become a credible lead guitarist as well. Lately I've been getting into recording.

Nothing is more satisfying than sitting on the front porch at sunset, looking out over the pond across from my house, and fingerpick through some favorite songs, and work on new ones. By playing the guitar instead of eating, I've lost 100 pounds, and I'm still going. It's also been remarkable for my mental health.

To crush ny enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women!

Oh, hey, OP! I, too, enjoy touching paintings w/ a bone-dry brush and then holding still in the moment. 😶

Books, good food, a good laugh, and my best friend. These are things that come to mind straight away, but there are certainly many others!

Helping others, having friendly interactions with people (online and offline), birds landing on your outstretched hand, when a happy dog looks up at you with their happy smiles, when a cat comes to see you after the owner says "She's nervous around strangers",.. A solid sleep and feeling refreshed in the morning.

A good coffee, a cold drink on a hot day, when a seed has sprouted in my garden, a hefty burrito, a heavy thunderstorm, sunshine after days of rain, the cooling 5PM breeze on a stinking hot day, ibuprofen working on a headache, when you go shopping and one of the first things you try on fits really well so you don't have to shop for hours, the first run down the hill (snow), when you come across a steal of a deal on something you've been wanting,... Too many to name.

What doesn't bring me joy is when I need cold water from the tap and hot water comes out, or if the empty toilet roll hasn't been replaced. 💀

Mostly alcohol, and @urheber@discuss.tchncs.de

Edit: My cat too

Mostly simple stuff

An entertaining or educational book, a good philosophical argument, enjoying moments of good health, leisure, and company, the double barrel shotgun in doom, learning a new song or technique on the guitar and using it to create my own stuff, warm socks and cold coffee, figuring out a bug or defect in a program.

Seeing animals, especially in the wild, especially birds. I like to think of every sighting as good luck.

Music

Taking the bus. Just sitting and being able to have my thoughts for myself. Also walking.

Computer games but I really need to play less digital games and more analog games instead. Both have an enormous backlog but at least I have stopped buying more... Digital games.

My wife

My morning meditation

My garden

My cats and dog

My electric bill- no, wait.

My wife and my cats. We got a kitten a few months after my older cat passed and it turned out to be a really good decision (even though he does drive us crazy sometimes, because kittens are basically toddlers with pointy teeth and claws and a 1-meter vertical leap). Not saying kittens are a cure for depression, but it helps.

Coming home. My wife always does little reno projects to the house and i work on creating a nice garden. We could only afford something small, but we'll never have kids so it's a good forever home.

Dam I used to think I was gonna die partying young, now all these years later I get excited shopping for cactus soil.

Quiet mornings

Camping, hiking, a crackling fire, being outdoors. Sunshine, snow, rain, winter. Beaches, mountains, forests. Skipping stones on a lake. Pottery, programming, puzzles. Good coffee, good tea, and hot drinks in general (esp. Feuerzangenbowle!). And probably more?

That moment when you're stuck on a part of your code and you figure it out, write it, test it and it just works.

It's rare, but when it happens, it feels very good.

Painting tabletop miniatures

I had a nice little walk today

Books, cats, coffee and drawing/painting. I could also say "working", as my job is reading, learning and being amazed (I'm a biologist).

Cooking and eating.

Ultra mega hyperfixating on one very specific piece of technology for days on end, then burning out lmao

Music, walking and cats :3

The feeling that I’ve helped someone or something feel safe and loved. Usually that is cats but in any case it feels nice to know you’ve put more of those foundational good feelings into the world somehow.

There is a cat in the crook of my arm right now, and I know she feels safe and loved and in return she’s basically radiating mental health at me.

Building LEGO's. Mostly plants and animals but I've got some space and pop culture stuff as well.

Playing boardgames. Euros, puzzlers, co-op's, card, and classics.