Keeping it positive - Day 14

Date: 2010-08-17, 12:58AM CDT
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It was pointed out to me that my Craigslist ads have a distinct tendency to focus on the negative. It's also been my experience that people who only know me from the internet don't realize the slakelessly good humor with which I view almost every aspect of daily life.

To this end, here are some things I like:

I like getting dinner from the gas station. I especially like it on a first date. I like the walk, and I like being a guy who thoughtfully remembers to pocket some extra napkins.

I like coats. And mittens. Gloves, too, but mittens especially.

I like when someone is talking to me and they say a bunch of things really fast and I can tell they were thinking the semi-colons in their sentence.

I like cookbooks. I like cooking. I don't use the cookbooks when I cook, but I like reading, and having them. Mostly having them.

I like dogs. Dogs are outstanding. Mostly the big ones, but the little ones can be all right dudes too.

I like TV. The kind where people wrote some words and other people said them.

I like when good bands cover bad songs. I like when bad bands cover good songs.

I like enthusiasm. I like when people like things. I wish Facebook let me like that someone liked something without me having to like it too. Your interests are interesting.

I like Uptown in the winter. I like Northeast in the fall. I like the mall around Christmas if I don't have anything I need to buy.

I like Bourbon, American lager, and cheap gin.

I like using all my vacation time and not changing anything about my routine except for going to work.

I like paid programming for machines that cook food in a way that is better than the old way.

I like the idea of antique stores.

I like science. Sometimes I wish going to college for something other than liberal arts hadn't seemed like so much work. I think I would enjoy lady scientists, but I don't know any.

I like new tires and new shoelaces.

I like off-brand diet cola.

I like leaving the house and walking around when I get a phone call. If I talk for too long, sometimes I get lost.

I like shopping for cuff links on eBay.

I like wearing a suit on my day off.

I like to live life on a spectrum somewhere between the phrases, "I'm not a barbarian," and "This ain't the Ritz."

I like e-mail.

Hi. I'm Dan. I'm probably free this Friday.

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