The "What made you happy today" thread!

[wonko the sane?]

Spent the day out in the province. Actually, we never went more than say 150 klicks from home, but... it's almost an entire other world. We went to a site near the american border with vermont called stanstead, and visited the standing stones. We hit up a bazar, the church garage sale right next door, a nice little cafe built into an old farm house. From the cafe got a nice lead on an artisanal dairy farm; and went and got some high quality, fresh from the farm milk and cheese (and the goat cheese... it's to die for.).

Then we took the long way home up the old highway. Took an age, but the vistas were worth it. We passed like four separate lakes, and went through some long standing small towns and villages.

And magog. But that's neither here nor there.

 

[Dekafox]

After a bad start to the day due to some mail issues that almost cost me my SS86 Perceptor/Ramhorn(not the post office's fault) that meant I had to drive 20 minutes to the main office to get it, the two RPG game sessions tonight really put me in a much better mood.

The first one was my normal campaign - we're about a year and a month into it. and a nice party chat , some shenanigans, the usual, though we had to leave off in the middle of a fight. Then the second one was a GM trying out a new system, but funnily enough the majority of it ended up being from that first group as well!

We were trying out Nimble, a more rules-light mish-mash of 5e and Pathfinder. A confrontation in the local tavern caused an encounter to happen far sooner than the DM had planned, and then my gnoll druid-type character critted one of the goblins to death with a stew bowl as her first action, sending it flying out the door. (Followed by two more through the windows with a wind spell)

 

[wonko the sane?]

I was checking my stocks this morning while listening to the news: and during a segment about the upcoming market crash... I bought some more shares of AMC. It cost me 150 bucks cad... but I now have a meme number for my meme stock.

 

[Superomegaprime]

I rode back to my local city to pick up some more Gromits and do some pick up shots, so I did about 35 miles today and only got lost once for a few moments, but quicky found my way to where I was going so it wasn't like last time where I ended up miles off course, poor signage is to blame for that as the city council seem to presume that you know the area! So I have only three more to go and they are outside of the city area and would take a while to get to on bike, but they make up what called the northern trail

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I thought my spaghetti sauce was bland but the aftertaste is really nice. I'll need to keep experimenting but I must be on the right track.

This is the best kind of trial and error. I'm going to have a fun week.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I finally nailed it! It turns out that all I needed was more salt. I was afraid it would make everything just taste like salt, but instead it just woke up all the other flavors.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Just watched a clip of a guy driving a bit recklessly inside of a Airport in the US:

Why it makes me happy, not sure, its just kind of bemusing to watch as the guy drives it along

 

[wonko the sane?]

I finally nailed it! It turns out that all I needed was more salt. I was afraid it would make everything just taste like salt, but instead it just woke up all the other flavors.

There is a line where salt goes from "Hey lads! Follow me!" while holding up a tattered battle flag to "How's my boot taste, bitch!?!" while curb stomping your arteries and electrolyte levels.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Rewatching: Walace and Gromit, Vengence most FOWL, entertaining film still and well worth watching, highly recomend it as its just a comedy, yet done in stop motion and a barrel of laughs

 

[MEDdMI]

Watched K-Pop Demon Hunters. I had to pause the movie at one point b/c I was laughing so hard.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Completed another day of Gromit hunting and photogathed all of the statues, so all 53 have been bagged and a couple of bonus ones to boot, so all that remains is something that popped up at the city museum which I'll do later in the week, after that, its going to the Greatest Dog show 3, which is all of the statues coming together for about two weeks prior to being sold off for charity and I've already booked my tickets to see all of these statues together!

 

[Anonymous X]

Visited a museum based in a Tudor house built in 1491, which has a Norman era building built in the 1180s behind it.

 

[Stepwise]

Two things - I got to hold my brand new baby grandson this afternoon. Grandkid #2.

I also got an email from a former student from 20ish years ago. She couldn't find me on Facebook - I shut mine down several years ago - so she tracked down my school email. It was so cool to hear from her.

 

[Dekafox]

Cleared the last four raids I needed in Guild Wars 2 to finally make my set of heavy Legendary armor. With that I'll have legendary in all three weights, one from each source: Light from Open World, Medium from WvW, and Heavy from raids. Not doing it tonight though, too tired and don't want to mess it up so finishing it tomorrow.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Two things - I got to hold my brand new baby grandson this afternoon. Grandkid #2.

Congrats of the new Protoform

Made another run into my local city on bike again, was going to look at something related to the Gromit trail in the city mussem, but after combing across the mussem's two floors, couldn't spot them, while they are meant to be in plain sight, with all of the stuff in there, they just get lost as they are so small, so I gave up and took some pictures of the other Gromits around the city, before the trail ends this Sunday and they start gathering them up for the Great Dog show 3 next month and after that, most are being sold at auction to the highest bidder, while one is being raffled off as the main prize! Much as I would love to have it, there simply no room in the garden as these are quite big and would be hard to get into the garden to start with, so while I didn't achive my main goal, seeing the other Gromits and taking pictures of them made me happy

 

[Stepwise]

Is finding Gromits around the city kind of like geocaching? Sounds like you're having a blast doing it.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Is finding Gromits around the city kind of like geocaching? Sounds like you're having a blast doing it.

Each one is painted up differently, so its intersting to see them, I was enjoying seeing them and it gets me to places I don't normally go, such as the local Football stadium (Soccer), the Floating Harbour entrance for boats, a natural wonder (thou that is a lot further out and more south of the city), small towns on the edge of the city, even the city's most iconic bridge area, it makes for a Grand days out and its better than sitting at home doing nothing meaningful all day when I don't have to work, plus the ride on my bike for the most part, is pretty nice as its going along the old railway path that was ripped up back in the 1960s in what called the Beeching cuts and left to pretty much rot until it was turned into a public high way and it popular with cyclists, dog walkers and people enjoying a bit of nature, even some cats! On the way home, I saw a cat at the side of path, it was in the loaf procession, its eyes were shut and I was thinking it must have a hobby of counting humans and thus it fell asleep in the process, while the middle area of the path is home to some other wildlife as its a long path stretching between two major cities in the region, thou roughly half way along I have to ver off to one side at a abandoned railway station as it takes me home and pass the old coal mine area!

So, hunting the Gromits down is fun, thou it does wear me out a bit as I done something like 26 - 28 miles on my bike as a round trip today and had to go up and down a few major hills, one point on the way there, I accdidently set off a speed sign going downhill, its a 20 miles per hour zone and it clocked me at 26 miles, thou its likely I was actually going slower and its just the speed of the front wheel it picked upon!

 

[LiamA]

Each one is painted up differently, so its intersting to see them, I was enjoying seeing them and it gets me to places I don't normally go, such as the local Football stadium (Soccer), the Floating Harbour entrance for boats, a natural wonder (thou that is a lot further out and more south of the city), small towns on the edge of the city, even the city's most iconic bridge area, it makes for a Grand days out and its better than sitting at home doing nothing meaningful all day when I don't have to work, plus the ride on my bike for the most part, is pretty nice as its going along the old railway path that was ripped up back in the 1960s in what called the Beeching cuts and left to pretty much rot until it was turned into a public high way and it popular with cyclists, dog walkers and people enjoying a bit of nature, even some cats! On the way home, I saw a cat at the side of path, it was in the loaf procession, its eyes were shut and I was thinking it must have a hobby of counting humans and thus it fell asleep in the process, while the middle area of the path is home to some other wildlife as its a long path stretching between two major cities in the region, thou roughly half way along I have to ver off to one side at a abandoned railway station as it takes me home and pass the old coal mine area!

So, hunting the Gromits down is fun, thou it does wear me out a bit as I done something like 26 - 28 miles on my bike as a round trip today and had to go up and down a few major hills, one point on the way there, I accdidently set off a speed sign going downhill, its a 20 miles per hour zone and it clocked me at 26 miles, thou its likely I was actually going slower and its just the speed of the front wheel it picked upon!

Sounds a bit like something that Charleston, SC did years ago. They had sea turtles painted in different styles and scattered through out town.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Sounds a bit like something that Charleston, SC did years ago. They had sea turtles painted in different styles and scattered through out town.

These are a bit of a thing here in the UK, having fiber glass model statues scattered around some cities for a limited time, in my region, there's been a total of six that I'm aware of over the years, the other city near to where I live, had pigs, thou that was I think about fifteen years ago, then the other city had Gorillas which was raising money for the local Zoo, and that was followed up by the first Gromit Trail and then came the Shaun the Sheep one a few years after, then after that came the second Gromit Trail and this year, its Gromit's third outing with the money going to a local charity for the children's hospital within the city!

Anyway, what made me happy today, was avoiding the rain, I went to work between showers and dodged the rain coming home from work, just shortly after I got in, the heavens openned up, thou not as bad as middle of the afternoon, where it just chucked it down without mercy

 

[wonko the sane?]

Got two new pairs of jean shorts for 5 bucks a pop. Wranglers even.