My friend, an immigrant to my country, was laid off two weeks ago and wasn't able to land a new job. She was 4 months away from getting her PR, but without a new job, she wouldn't qualify. After many stressful nights of crying, doing resume review and interview practice, she YOLO'd and sent the CEO of her old company an email asking to be employed until she got the PR, and the CEO simply said "Sure".

Absolutely crazy, and rare to see that sort of compassion. I'm super happy for her, even though it might be awkward, but getting over this cusp will lock her in on her new life.

You know how you get electric cars? Know how you get electric bikes?

You get electric boats now!!!!

Currently floating about on one on an alpine lake and it's completely silent and nature is just fuckin amazing so why disturb it. Just trundled past a duck family and they barely moved

Haven't had a smoke or vape in more than a week now. I know I'm not out of the woods yet but this is a big achievement for me.

I finally had an opportunity to photograph the neighborhood hawk last weekend. I've been trying to photograph this guy for YEARS, but he always takes off before I can go get my camera.

Was supposed to watch something with my best friend last night but we just ended up chatting for like 4h. Never fails to cheer me up

Watched a bunch of tits (the other tits) romping about the hazel bush, they were hilarious.

A friend came by that I hadn't seen in a while and while hanging out she asked me if she could put some make up on me. I agreed and when she was done I felt attractive for the first time in a long while. That was a nice experience. :)

I found some money I squirrelled away for a big luxury purchase, so I'm buying a painting. It's the first piece of art in years that's stopped me in my tracks to stare. I have a print, but it's not the same.

Got health insurance AND dental b so finally fixing some dental problems that I've had for years without worry of going broke.

• the humidity is way down

• my wife and I are actively clearing our house of things we don't need and want anymore

• I'm successfully knocking a lot of small, tedious tasks off my to-do list

Public holiday 3 day weekend

I got a picture of mine featured in a newsletter on Buzzly.

The release of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, big fan of Jet set radio. Casual tricking and good vibes, also Hideki never misses.

Unironically the republican primary debate. My favorite part of any election season is when they drag a bunch of these clowns out of the woodwork and we get to watch them slaughter each other (verbally) over the course of six months like teenagers in an 80's movie. Too bad the fascists are always the ones that win.

I went on a vacation trip last week. We took the ferry fron Connecticut to Long Island, rode our bikes from Orient Point to the Hamptons, took the train to New York City, hung out in Brooklyn for 4 days. No car the whole way. It was awesome. Brooklyn is super cool, biking in NYC is the best way to enjoy the city. I am full of ideas for the next trip.

My girlfriend.

• Sex

• Drugs

• Rock n Roll

I played my first official league game of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and it was a great experience. Not professional gaming or anything, just hobby gaming in the lowest league. But I always wanted to do that and finally found a group of nice people to do it with.

Got a 18-105mm lens for my camera and have been taking videos of absolutely everything, like my kitchen and bathroom.

My new mattress is getting delivered tomorrow. I've been sleeping on a cheap crappy Ikea mattress for years, and I just couldn't ignore how bad it is anymore. Hopefully with the new one I'll finally be able to sleep longer than six hours without waking up feeling like I've been in a fight.

Polaris just dropped their upcoming LP's third track, "Overflow", and it slaps as intended.

Metalcore band from Australia, if you don't know them, chek them out.

I finally feel alive again. I lost my pet some weeks ago and it devastated me, but I have a new dog that came before she left me and I have to care for him and my chihuahua too.

I also wasn't sure how I would survive all the time I have to spend on my faculty (my schedule is horrible) and the lack of attention span I have, but yesterday I went to the library and studied a little bit, I've been understanding Algebra topics and haven't missed much homework. I'm managing to organize everything I need and, even if next time I won't, I've been helping to organize an important event for my career.

Life hit me, but I'm recovering.

Quality time, spent with quality people. Getting to see my significant other for their birthday weekend despite the distance was great.

Nothing.

No not joking

Happy?

It's triple digit weather for the 9th week.

My friends 16 year old son just got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

My daughter is having a rough recovery from an apendectomy.

I'm having to work extended hours due to staff shortages.

Payment from my last job is a week overdue and I don't know how I'll eat or get to my new job.

My back is fucking killing me from being on my feet 12 to 14 hours a day.

What is happiness again?

People being open and friendly on Lemmy.

...and figuring out how to make Silero text to speech work with any length text and got it integrated with a chat bot to talk back to me. I also just got speech to text working. Now I just need to train it on my voice and background noise and I can have a real world voice conversation with offline AI I tune and control.

Getting my mom's car fixed on my own

56 hours in brutal heat and humidity working in a steel mill with a weekend off

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When I thought about this guy every time I went out of my way to fuck shit up

I don't go out very often but I did with with some coworkers and one of them thanked me and said they had a nice time

A very friendly cashier lady. She was the kind of genuinely friendly person that could get even the grumpiest of grumps to smile.
Left me feeling happy for the rest of the day :)

Not sure if it's happiness per-se, but I'm excited about joining uni next week.

Just discovered EU's DMA this week. Made me happy.

I took the last week and a half off from work and was happy to see when I finally checked my emails (bored at the airport) it didn't look like anything went to shit! Was nice to get away for a bit, and need to do it more often but tend to procrastinate for stupid reasons...

Also supposed to go on a second date tomorrow to a gig but we'll see if that actually happens or she got bored and moved on while I was on holidays.

But in a good mood. Just got home a couple of hours ago and doing some cleanup/chores.

It's been a while since I've actually felt 'happy' vs 'anhedonic'.