Okay...
This is gonna be hard...
Stuff I love...
• Chocolate pudding in 8 pound cans...
That's not accurate... I merely "like" it and the kind I like is extinct now...
I'm pretty sure anyone who has perused my nonsense before was expecting me to say that, so I sorta had to lead with that.
Stuff I actually love...
• Good people... Not saints or people who I'm told are good, or worse yet tell me they are good...
Genuine uncertified good people... They can even sometimes be the worst people, but they are the ones that really want to and try to be good, they may fall short at times but they tried their best.
Good people who do good things because it's the natural right thing to do...
People who understand there is a world out there... Not just them, but a whole world... A universe full of amazing things that they are just a tiny, tiny little bitty speck of, but they are happy to be part of it.
• Wonder.
You can be two or two hundred but I love when I see wonder in a human... It's even more amazing when it's in an adult or someone who is no longer a child... It shows that even if just for a moment they realize there is more to life... the universe is bigger and more amazing then the world we immerse ourselves in and have come to expect.
• Most baby animals... Yeah, I've even taken care of my mortal enemies offspring... Baby squirrels.
• Small humans... Kids are super annoying, but the truth is most of them are at heart better then most of us... They still haven't learned to be like stupid adults and if adults emulated their better qualities more often, the world would be a better place.
• Earth from space... If more people could put that image in context to our being, they'd realize how stupid everything that we do up close on the surface of the planet is...
• The rest of the universe... Seriously, billions of galaxies, bazillions of stars, trillions of planets, millions of worlds and some idiots want to own a friggin' mansion and a yacht...
You can be the richest person on earth, but you still can't own a star you idiot.
• The ocean... That's our outer space on earth... It's vast it's breathtaking and it's full of Dolphins and octopuses.
• Discovering something new on my own... I don't care how many people know it already, it's awesome to figure out something complicated without a manual or instructions or having listened to a professor lecture about it until they've disintegrated every last funicule* the topic is made of.
• Fixing something that there was no reason in hell for it to ever work again... And you had no idea what exactly was broken, but using a combination of the force and intuition you find something that doesn't look right and cobble together a fix... Bonus points if it was just using your multi tool (Leatherman tool) and whatever nonsense was at hand and even more awesome if you are in the middle of nowhere and it saves the day.
• Lightning storms. It must be hereditary, but my mom loved crazy weather and lighting and I do too... One of the coolest things that ever happened when I was a kid was I was about 50-70 feet from a big oak that got blasted by lightning... I felt like Zeus for the next hour or so. Back when my dog was alive, we both used to sit out in the summer storms and play in the rain.
• Coming home from some stupid adventure and seeing the lights on at home... Well, not just the lights and everyone went out left them all on... Just like when you come back and it's evening or night and there is a light left on for you...
We don't have a real porch, but we have a small enclosed porch-like thing we call "the Foyer"... It's nice to see that light as I come in the driveway.
• When wild animals don't attack me... That sounds like I get attacked by tigers and hyenas a lot... But I mean like when a rabbit, a deer, a hawk, a raccoon or yeti just wanders over to check you out and say hi and spends a few minutes with you and goes on their way... Nature can be annoying sometimes, but every now and then it doesn't try and sting or bite you and those moments make up for the bad ones.
• Inventing stuff... Crazy stupid fixes for stupid problems... Or just making something... Well something that actually works or doesn't suck or refuses to exist... Like Hannibal from the A team used to say... "I love it when a plan comes together".
• Flying... Mostly in a plane, but twice in a car wasn't so bad...(the landing part wasn't fun though)... Flying is awesome.
• Climbing up really tall things and not fall off and dying... I love that.
• Coming home after a long trip.
• Seeing a meteor.
• Learning new stuff and seeing how it all fits together in a bigger picture.
• My family.
I have thousands more, but I'm getting boring.
That and I really aught to eat dinner...
Good night folks!
*Funicule: The smallest unit of measurable fun a topic can provide. Analogous to a molecule, but less literarily correct.