The Happiness Thread

I think one of us might be confused as to what "win" means.

 

Serious question:why do people choose to live in bad weather?

 

6c here, index feels like 6c.

Boring

 

I ask myself that every goddamned day this time of year.

 

Where's good weather? Like, where is it that's nice most of the year?

 

There are also issues of earthquakes, drought, etc.

And a lot of people (me included) really LIKE the changing of the seasons. I could do without the extreme cold and the extreme heat, but I'd rather deal with them than miss out on the fun of a beautiful, snowy winter's day or a warm, sunny summer one!

Nowhere's perfect, I don't think.

 

Take it from me, a guy who lives in an area where it’s hot all the time — I love that it’s finally cold down here. I mean, sure I don’t like it if its freezing and uncomfortable, but I actually don’t mind it.

 

Fifi, island pearl in the pacific water, where water's warm, coconuts are abundant. I drew a picture

 

Northern Alaska seems to be a good place if you like snow, and don't mind winters
when the sun doesn't come up till after nine. Though there was a day that had only
~3hrs of sunlight. Also you have to be comfortable with temps that get down to -20+
and being visited by moose and bears.

Though it is tough to find a place that is completely moderate all year round with
seasonal change. Here in northern AZ, spring and fall are the most moderate temps,
of the year. Though this year we have had no snow this winter, and lows have been
around 30 degrees. I am looking at it as a cold fall more than winter. And summer
is a comparable vary from 70-101 degrees. Though I am sure Flagstaff is much
worse in the winter, and they probably have snow.

 

Have had a good and productive weekend! Didn't manage to get out and go fishing, but we spent Friday evening, Saturday and this morning painting the spare room, whcih we've just had replastered. Ceiling now done, walls have had their initial 'mistcoat'... feel like we're finally making progress here.
Also going to spend this evening studying my notes from my last Creative Writing course (Jan 2017) as I've signed up to to the next one, to help me improve on my writing, and trying to give it some better kind of framework!

 

I had a row with my best friend / ex last year that resulted in us not speaking for a good five months, but we've semi-recently patched things up and we're getting back into the routine of being friends. I didn't realize how much I'd missed it. The fact that I can text her again without dredging up bad feelings is very much Happiness Thread material.

Also, I just recounted all the bullshit that I used to wear in my babybat phase and it cracked me up. No one has a graceful, dignified babybat phase, but good lord.

 

Erm... I know I run the risk of sounding old, but what is babybat?

 

Goth kids. I think only other goths use it, hahah. Actually I'm not sure if anyone really uses it, anymore, but I always found it endearing, so I still do.

 

I have never heard this term, ever, and yet, I love it. It's awesome. Maybe it's an American thing? (that's not a dig btw )

 

I could definitely do without Southern California later summer / early autumn heat! Aug/Sept/Oct are my least favorite months.

Given the wider number of areas that were over 100 during the past few years, I think the guidebooks are going to have to widen that temperature variance to closer to 40-50 degrees. It's true that I've never used the furnace in my place, though. It's not worth calling the gas company for the 5-6 nights per year it's really needed.

 

Know what's really weird? I'm not sure who ever started this thing of California not having a change of seasons, but we do visibly have them. They just look different than what people expect should look like. Right now, it's rainy season, which usually kicks in around the day after Christmas and goes til April. I do miss snow, but it's only a couple of hours away, and it's true that you can ski and go to the beach in the same day if you time it right, which is damn cool.

As for earthquakes...I don't like them at all, but having lived in places with blizzards/ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes...You said it! Nowhere's perfect.

 

Orange County is pretty close to perfect.

 

Osaka has pretty damn near a one hundred degree (F) temperature variation through the year, unfortunately it's skewed towards the high end, with temps in the mid-90s up to near 100 in the summer, and only occasionally creeping below zero in the winter. I'd prefer someplace that drops to a minimum of, say, 10 below zero and never got above 90.

 

I grew up in southern CA. If you are talking about F the temperature fluctuates about 55 degrees from summer to winter.

I live in WA now. The difference that matters: in LA I was surrounded by cement and you could see Mt Baldy which was less than 20 miles away on only a couple days a year because of the smog.

Here in WA I am surrounded by beautiful forests, water, gorgeous mountains and the air is clear 11 months of the year. I'm fine with the grey winters and a little bit of snow is beautiful as long as you don't have to drive in it.

 

I complained about a job opportunity a few days ago - but I got some more information today, and I think it could actually turn out to be something great!

I will still need to work some time for free - but there is an actual solid job at the end of it! Job will mainly be writing product descriptions - so I will actually get paid to hammer on my keyboard. It's a toy-company, so there will be some room to be playful in the texts.

Interview tomorrow - and I actually feel really good about it.

 

Got my class assignments for next year, and quite a bit of my workload will be public speaking classes of one stripe or another.

I like teaching public speaking, and I think I'm pretty good at it as well, so this is great news for me.

Side benefit is that it takes very little prep or grading time outside of class hours, unlike writing classes, but that's honestly just a side thing, speech classes are fun.

 

Cheers!

#WaffleHouse

 

I got the written confirmation that I really, truly have a place reserved just for me at a training camp in August. You know the feeling? When I'm actually hesitant to look too closely at the syllabus, because I'm afraid that it's all a dream? How the fuck did I manage to make THIS list?

One place for me. Five other students. A gaggle of instructors. All there to kick our six' asses! One week. On a private island in the Orkneys. No one else around.

It's not a dream. I don't wanna wake up.