Everyone likes my new place; it's spacious and the layout is very inviting. I had clamoring and Xander over for dinner tonight, and I made: pan fried trout fettuccine with mizithra and brown butter battered zucchini chopped tomatoes watermelon They brought the tomatoes and the watermelon, and I'm pretty glad they did because otherwise everything would have golden brown and rich. Not...

With inhumandecency 's help, I got the main room, the outside-the-bathroom sink, and the dining room table presentable. Now there's just a few things in the kitchen and a whole lot of stuff in the bedroom to worry about. But from where I'm sitting right now, I can't see any of that - just the orderly main room. I can't help but think, as I look around, how much more complicated cats would...

ursulav posted about this cute photocomic, My Milk Toof . I am reminded of inhumandecency and his friendly slimes and stories.

I've been reading The Happiness Hypothesis , by Jonathan Haidt. A lot of it consolidates stuff I already knew, thanks to inhumandecency . But a few tidbits are new. Of course, I'm familiar with the usual suspects list of things that don't increase happiness in the long run - wealth, beauty, fame, youth, etc. - and the usual suspect list of things that do - friendships, leisure, meditation...