... Living with Missy & other thoughts I often eat lunch at my desk.

On Happiness, Autumn and baseball: I stumbled across Alain de Botton 's little series Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness  today.  These are a practical philosophy courses basically - applying the philosophies (or aspects of the philosophies) of de Botton's favorite thinkers to our own lives, in the real world, in order to mazimize our happiness.  The two I find most instructive and interesting are: Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 102 "Epicurus on Happiness" Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness: 103 "Seneca on Anger"   In other news ...  ... the Red Sox are officially in the playoffs, though the Division is still up in the air.  We need a good push these next 6 games (2 with Oakland, 4 with Minnesota, all at Fenway) if we're going to wrap this up and try and retain home field advantage in the playoffs. ... Missy and I had a lovely weekend - Saturday at the Rilo Kiley show at Webster Hall in the City, which was fun and hot - Saturday night into Sunday morning with Michael and JK, eating burgers on 96th Street - & Sunday at the Pumpkin Festival in Seymour, Conn.  The weather could have been more festive than it was (80 and sunny), but I cannot complain at all -the pumpkin pie was outrageously good & she and I purchased antique maps our our respective hometowns (mine being North Haven, of course - hers being Seymour), dated 1868. I'll be working late for the next few days because of this big push at work which I'd love to explain but I'm afraid it wouldbe terribly technical ... Posted by GM G AT 25 September, 2007 12:05 0 comments » post a comment  |  digg it « back home MY PROFILE ------------------------------- Name: GM G Location: Connecticut / NYC Mason jars & brooklyn stars; Warm weather & beach house weekends; Cool weather & New england autumns; My partner & cul-de-sacs; Secular humanism & ethical culture; Science, skepticism & reason; the National pass-time, the Boston Red Sox & americana; the 'long now'/value the future on a timescale longer than your own [life] RECENT POSTS --------------------------- Hitchens on C-SPAN This is were Missy and I live & giggle When is a good time to jump off a sinking ship? University of Florida Student Tased at John Kerry Speech My only comment on "Spygate"