Happy Thoughts

[Mathman]

My wife currently hates her job - long, long hours, pay isn’t great, lots of turnover (see: long hours, pay isn’t great). I’ve been trying to find the balance of trying to be compassionate, but also gently nudging her into updating her resume. She finally updated the resume, and her main professional organization is having their annual meeting next week, and she’s getting on a plane this weekend with a stack of resumes.

[Bro]

I ran for over 30 minutes this morning without stopping to walk.

[JFG]

Seeing my once underweight throwaway dog living the good life of bacon, ball, and belly rubs.

[Echo]

Thanks! They don’t call it a dog’s life for nothing

[Ajstudies]

@Bro

I ran for over 30 minutes this morning without stopping to walk.

Wow!

[1695814]

I just saw that Netflix has produced/released a new season of my favorite “reality tv” game show - the mole.

I had been enjoying re-watching all of the previous seasons & had been thinking, “Man, they should really reboot this series. It was the best of them all.”

And, now, boom! There it is. Hopefully, it’s as good as the original.

[SteveWhite]

[PatientZombie]

nice story and not doubting it, but assuming that is an older story as 94 is very young to be a WWII vet

enlisted at 17 at the very end of the war, is possible

[twig93]

That feeling when you kill a mosquito with your bare hands… BEFORE it gets a chance to bite you.

[Breadmaker]

+ =

[PatientZombie]

oops wrong thread

[ao_fan]

only the females bite. you might have killed an innocent male.

[Hip_tiger]

Males are usually guilty of harassment.

[twig93]

If the male is going to breed with a female and produce biting offspring then he’s guilty too, but the fact that I got him before he bit me is admittedly less impressive in that case.

[NerdAlert]

#notallmen

[Ajstudies]

My new bed is supposed to be delivered today.

[twig93]

[soyleche]

Do the males fly around your head, or just the females? The males don’t have any reason to be attracted to you, because they don’t need your blood - but do they carry the genes that make them want to anyway?

[SteveWhite]

@SteveWhite

This is Eclipse. Every day she leaves home alone and takes the bus downtown to the dog park where she gets a few hours of exercise and makes friends, and then she takes the bus home again. She even has her own bus pass attached to her collar.

It started when her owner, Jeff Young, was taking too long when the bus came, so she impatiently ran ahead and got on the bus herself. The bus driver recognized her and dropped her off at the dog park, and later Jeff picked her up. After a few more rides on her own, Jeff started letting her ride by herself, and she always comes home a few hours later.

All the bus riders know her and she makes them smile, and many of the regular passengers are happy to see her every day and often sit next to her. Even the police have given their approval, as long as the bus drivers are okay with the arrangement. “She makes everyone happy.”

Google seems to agree this story is true, and that the dog is in Seattle. I guess I should have posted this in the thread for things DTNF should see in Seattle.

Not a happy development, but can still qualify as a happy memory and hence a happy thought.

Eclipse the dog, known for riding the bus alone to the dog park, has died

Eclipse, the Seattle dog known for riding a city bus herself, died on Friday. The news was posted on her owner-run Facebook account.

She was 10 years old and died in her sleep, according to the account. Prior posts shared that she had been diagnosed with cancerous tumors.

Eclipse gained attention in 2015 when she began to take the bus alone. Her owner, Jeff Young, says the two of them would regularly take the bus to visit their local Belltown Dog Park. One day, he was still smoking a cigarette when the bus arrived — so, she boarded without him.

Within weeks, the black lab-bullmastiff mix was a consistent commuter in her signature red harness. Bus drivers recognized her and she knew her stop by looking out the window, her fellow passengers told Seattle’s KOMO News in 2015.

[1695814]

Some pain points in my life are beginning to resolve favorably.