Lots of things make me happy. I guess I'm easily amused.
Family, #1. Just hanging out really, and seeing my wife and kids happy with school/work/home.
Beer. Mmm, beer.
Being onstage, or practicing with my bands. Side band has a show Jan. 30th, after the drummer and lead singer had a drama-queen contest a few days ago that momentarily threatened to scuttle things but good. I can hardly wait to get practiced up and play! Especially since we'll be a 5-piece again and I will play guitar instead of bass (I like bass, but my last 2 shows were on bass and I wanna play guitar!).
Camping with the boy. He's ending Cub Scouts in about a month, hopefully getting the Arrow of Light (which is Cub Scouts' highest award, and the only one that can be transferred to a Boy Scout uniform). He'll be in middle school next year and probably too busy to continue scouting (he's gifted, but also dyslexic-- meaning schoolwork can take a lonnnnnnnnnnng time to complete) at least for the near future. I'll miss that if that's how it works out, and would love to start taking him and his sister on some family campouts instead.
Going to church, especially when I can play a musical instrument in the service. I played in a church band for a decade and then bad stuff went down (pastor left, nasty power struggle ensued, we left) and I'm now churchless. I miss that and am hoping that eventually it will work out so that I can do that again somewhere. It's a totally different experience than playing in a rock band.
Almost forgot-- writing and recording! I don't home record, so going into a studio is a big deal for me. Writing a song is lots of fun, and gives me the freedom to not be fettered by my vocal or instrument limitations, as I might when playing a rock cover or doing a peice in church from lead sheets. Since I've written it, it sounds how it sounds and that's how it's supposed to sound. To me that's way more fun than playing a cover.
ancake: :beer: :dude: 
