We just came back from middlebury after watching gabe play a great lacrosse game it was a beautiful evening and the drive both ways was spectacular with ll the spring foliage coming out in various shades of green and some flowering trees already in bloom. I just plopped down on the couch with a glass of wine, put my feet up and started some recreational programming (javascript) … Its a guilty pleasure sort of thing on friday night after a long (but interesting) week.
The thought of ‘guilty pleasures’ reminds me of a talk show i heard on a college radio station in ny earlier this week .. The topic was guilty pleasures… Things you like.. But dont like admitting that you like… folks were calling in and admitting their own guilty pleasures…. Folks called in to admit such things as harlequin romances, old abba cds and friend chicken.. Got me thinking.. What are my guilty pleasures … Beyond programming on a friday night ? Here are a few things That come to mind:
- sappy movies like juno and lost in translation, the iron giant
- naps in the middle of the day .. Sometime in my office
- doing nothing
- cheescake
- anchovies
- thiso one stupid duran duran song
- shel silverstien poems
- roller coasters
- country western music (at least when I’m welding)
- bubble bath
- chocolate icing
- fortran
- african violet incense
- sleeping late
- soft bathrobes
- bowling
- macaroni and cheese with that weird orange powdered cheese
- babies
- jumping off the richmond bridge
- croissants
- the sound of old volkswagon engines
- picking locks
- astro boy
- the big lebowski
- snow angles
- dogs
- bright leds
- oysters
- tejano music
- bad wine
- steig larsons books
- old hand tools
- meteor showers
- rainy days
- schmalzy yiddish folksongs
- semicolons
- vienna
- the smell of epoxy
- weed wackers
- the planet venus
- maxfield parish prints
- cognac
- roses
- dark chocolate
- pocket knives
- old electric shock gizmos
- sappy country western songs
Better stop there…. What are yours ? Please let me know
Nite all, nite sam
-me