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

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.

Speedball lines of opiates and cocaine.

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.

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. 💀

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

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

Edit: My cat too

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

Music

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?

I had a nice little walk today

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.

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

goth latinas

Cooking and eating.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My wife

My morning meditation

My garden

My cats and dog

My electric bill- no, wait.

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.

Music, walking and cats :3

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

Well organized workspaces and scrap pieces that fit absolutely perfectly.

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

Waking up late on weekends, making a good cup of coffee, throwing on a record, and just relaxing before the day gets going.

Playing an instrument and jamming with others.

Finishing projects. Making stuff by hand.

Taking long walks with my dog.

Reading outside.

Music and dancing.

Being amongst nature.

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

Can't remember.

Scuba diving. Even if it's just in a local freshwater lake in winter. For a while you get to be a guest in an alien environment where you're almost weightless.

Baked goods and little cats.

The little cat let me pick her up and take her under the blankets for a snuggle! It was so nice!!

Painting tabletop miniatures

Learning something new and connecting with someone