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May 17, 2001

Happiness

Happiness is:

  • Really old Simpsons reruns you haven’t seen in a long time. Homer gets a heart bypass. Bart gets a Big Brother. Lisa can’t stop caling the Corey Hotline. Yes, I realize I’m mixing episodes…
  • Finding a good parking space on street cleaning night…
  • Remembering to take out the trash BEFORE you hear the truck out front…
  • A 7-Up cake from the Super K-mart in Oakland…
  • Switching over to the SciFi channel just in time to catch (unexpectedly) the very first episode of Dark Shadows from 1966…

Found Money

Supposing, for the sake of argument, that you were about to come into a sizeable amount of money you weren’t really expecting. Not an “independently wealthy” sum, mind you, but a “moderately significant changes in your life might be possible” sum which is a great deal more than you’ve ever had before…

Would you bank the money and carry on as usual, but with a fairly large safety net? Would you invest it in some major changes which might be geographic and educational in nature? Or would you just live it up like crazy?

I think I might be more inclined toward the first two options. But I’m just wondering…