{"id":3418,"date":"2009-04-20T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2009-04-20T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:51:11","slug":"happy-thoughts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3418","title":{"rendered":"Happy thoughts (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/3455939247\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3479\/3455939247_3d8b25c5ce.jpg?v=0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Some things that made me happy this weekend, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The stunning weather. It&#8217;s since grown a little colder, but we had beautiful spring weather all weekend long.<\/li>\n<li>Dinner and good conversation with friends on Saturday night. I got a fortune cookie fortune that said, &#8220;You look pretty.&#8221; And the restaurant was very kind to recalculate our bill when we asked to pay separately.<\/li>\n<li>I mailed out 50+ packages, with some 80-90 copies of <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i>. Easily one the more time consuming and least fun parts of running the zine, it was made a lot easier by not having to wait in line at the post office and friendly postal workers. (To be nice, I split the mailings between two local post offices.) There are still reviewer copies to go, but current subscribers and contributors should all be getting their copies soon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3417\">The two movies<\/a> I saw this weekend.<\/li>\n<li>My mother is feeling a lot better. Some family came to visit with her on Saturday, and she&#8217;s been a lot more up and about recently. Luckily the weather was nice enough for her to go outside briefly over the weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to keep doing this meme. On the one hand, I see the benefit of actively <i>looking<\/i> at the things that make you happy in a given day; I think there&#8217;s something to be gained from that kind of introspection. On the other hand, I&#8217;m not sure I want to devote entire blog posts to it. We&#8217;ll see.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things that made me happy this weekend, in no particular order: The stunning weather. It&#8217;s since grown a little colder, but we had beautiful spring weather all weekend long. Dinner and good conversation with friends on Saturday night. I got a fortune cookie fortune that said, &#8220;You look pretty.&#8221; And the restaurant was very &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3418\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4,25,28],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-memes","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}