Stuff that makes you disproportionately happy

Fitting headset cups using a threaded rod style bearing press.

Watching an Archimedes Screw lift water.

When the Christmas decorations come down and the room looks really minimalist and uncluttered.

Just watched eldest child score a goal in a competitive match for the very first time in about 7 years. He’s scored before but I’ve never seen it and this one was a great effort.

Fitting headset cups using a threaded rod style bearing press.

God yes, the very antithesis of watching some yahoo walloping one into an aluminium frame with a block of wood and a hammer.

My happy is seeing a car driving along while a dopey-looking mutt hangs their head out of the window. I’m sure it’s all sorts of unsafe but it makes me smile every time.

In the possibly climate-change-linked absence of any frost or cold weather, I’ve still got a lot of flowers in bloom in November. I’ve just popped out on this typically grey, drab day and as I walked back up my path there’s still plenty of colour in the front garden. Made me smile 🙂

A really good night’s sleep; waking up and not feeling exhausted and thirsty. Very rare.

Getting the front row seat on the top deck of the bus

Mountains

That feeling just after you get over a cold when you realise it’s gone and you can get back on your bike without risking a coughing fit (or have a beer without waking up feeling like death!).

Fusion 360 parameters and fully constrained sketches. It’s so nice just changing the parameters and having a different sized thing  (e.g. storage box) ready to 3d print.

The looks of utter disgust from the crowd at our Remembrance parade at the drivers who had to turn round at my marshalling point during the silence.

Porsche Bangernomics thread – and normally threads about ‘performance’ cars on this forum make me disproportionally cross and SUVs even more so…….

Wrong thread!

Papering job yesterday, 1000 grade lining paper and the scissors just slid down it a treat, lovely.

@kimbers, no read my post again.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/touch-screens-are-over-even-apple-is-bringing-back-buttons-86fb9ea8?st=AhyH6d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=tldrnewsletter

This. Touchscreens have no place in a moving vehicle.

My dog isn’t overly affectionate, but there are times when she’ll be lying down and just look over at you with nothing on her mind other than a belly rub. It’s a simple pure pleasure. 60 seconds later she’ll probably get up and walk away as she did last night, but it was worth it.

My 14 year old lad puts himself to bed and even though he is a “cool” kid, he will still call down for me to come up and give him a cuddle/kiss good night.

I walked into his pitch dark room last night, bent over his bed to say good night and was rugby tackled from behind.

“GOT YA !!! ”

“Love you Dad”

“Yeah you too boy”

Bird song, any time of year lifts me. I fear my increasing tinnitus is someday going to halt the enjoyment

When an STW page finally loads

Singing with Rossendale Male Voice Choir, next to a good espresso, a cuddle with the Mrs and a Sunday morning hack out on the tops of Rossendale, there is not much better.

Porsche Bangernomics thread – and normally threads about ‘performance’ cars on this forum make me disproportionally cross and SUVs even more so……

One of my favourite threads, the other being the dogs thread 🙂

Porsche Bangernomics thread

Not forgetting the “A Little Long-Term Project” (classic Mini) thread.

Being asleep

Train was busy tonight as the previous train was cancelled, standing room only, a few people huffing and puffing.

The guard worked his way down the train calling out “Tickets, passes and excuses at the ready please!” He uses it quite often but suddenly everyone had a smile and genuinely relaxed despite delayed or cramped journeys.

The Onion owning Infowars.

A statue with a traffic cone on its head. Never ever ever ever fails to make me chuckle.

Not just the one in Glasgow. The more remote the location the better.

Following this recipe..

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-fudge-cake

Nailed the butter in one cut, down to the gram! it wasn’t a pack of butter with measurements written on the packet either!

2  Project Binky videos in one month. The bonkers solder printer is great!

It used to be lots of things, some mentioned already, but currently nothing does.  A few things make me happy for a while but nothing gives me that giddy, happy lift that I used to get.

The moment when the hiss of air escaping from a punctured tubeless tyre stops. I had a hole in my rear tyre mid-week that needed plugging (I used a dynaplug). The moment when the air escape stops is a satisfying combination of tech that works and relief that you can carry on without needing to faff with the spare inner tube.

Giving me neighbour’s son a guitar effects pedal for his 12th birthday.  I’m not sure who was more excited, me or him!?

When my daft old man cat (16) comes up on the bed at 3am and curls up asleep against my legs, when he sits with other half at any other time.

Typing the word “ordered”. There’s something about typing that loop of dered that just makes me smile.

I recently discovered that the rivets holding the inner metal door surrounds on the oven, (the rivetted-ness of which had prevented me from removing/cleaning the inside faces of the double glass door), in fact just secure some spring clips. Meaning I am able to easily remove said glass for cleaning. We’d had that cooker 18 years before that became apparent to me. It looks like new again now. Very happy!

Just had a stunning view of Wollaton Hall outlined against the sunset through the train window. Never noticed it before in 2 years of rail commuting.

Realising that I now have the correct drills and taps to be able to mount my new extension lead to my steel workbench without any bodging

Loads of stuff, but i do especially like watching dogs play and zoom about for some reason!

I jokingly said last week that I was going to the club AGM rather than the club yoga session because I could get pork scratchings and beer at the AGM.

This week there was a packet of pork scratchings waiting for me at yoga, bless him.

Just had a stunning view of Wollaton Hall outlined against the sunset through the train window.

Made me happy that you reminded me of reading the Wollaton estate’s Land Agent’s records from the mid 19th century in the Nottingham archives 25 years ago. Reconstructing his life through the letters, orders and other paperwork made me happy then that he could never have anticipated me doing that.