Wil,

Glad you're having a good day.

I do not hate you.

Russ

Hey, if you're having a great day, why not enjoy it while it's here?

Gayle

Speaking of cool photos, I hit the Technorati profile link on your sidebar to see your pic there. That, sir, is a Very Cool picture of you, and I'm surprised you didn't use it on your site. It's THAT good.

Like my dear departed dad always used to say, 'make hay while the sun shines'.

It's good to see a post about good stuff. Too often the blogosphere reflects how cranky everybody is, without any happy entries to leaven things. :-)

I don't hate you either, Wil! Send some of that positive mojo my way, huh? ;)

'Blog' is a transitive verb, actually. You don't need the 'about' in there. "I won't blog it until..." or "he blogged Bush's lies before anyone in the professional press even noticed."

Just kidding. Use it however you want. (But that's how it seems to be used in much of the blogiverse. Yes, 'blogiverse'. Honest.)

I also do not hate you.

Wil -- thanks for making my day happier by sharing yours!! Good news travels well and we can all benefit from hearing cheerful comments -- they're contagious (well, the feeling is anyway).

thanks!

It's over 100F there today, and you don't have A/C?

Well, I was gonna hate you just to balance out all the good mojo responses, but damn if Nature didn't beat me to it! ;)

(That and the fact I'm glad it's a good time for you right now. I'm such a sappy bastard.)

Good days, being few and far between, should be relished like a good slushie. Don't enjoy its slushy goodness too intensely or you'll suffer the inevitable cold headache, but don't let fear of a possible cold headache keep you from basking in its sugary bliss.

Good days are to be treasured :) I had a couple of years of hard work that seemed to go nowhere, I was in and out of work, felt unhireable...what did I do wrong ? Why can't I get a job ?

Now I, and my wife, have cool jobs, and there's money for games, tech, gear, good food and toys. My blog is getting some visits, my pictures on buzznet get nice comments...it's all looking nice :)

BTW Typo in the article -you started a sentence with "The I"...an unfinished edit.

Wil, I hate you because I'm jealous of your success and happiness and because of my own insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, and all around negative attitudes of which I blame you through Projective identification.

-- Just kidding.

(Wow! Did I nail the haters or what?)

After spending 6 months looking for a job and having no luck, it's good to hear stories of joy and happiness from others. We all bear out the bad days and times while looking for the rays of sunshine that we know mean a good day is coming. Thanks for sharing, and I can't imagine anyone hating your for working hard and getting compensated for that with some good times.
Kisses to you and your sweetie--but please, make A/C a high priority for the kids' sake! :^)

I'm glad to hear that you're having a really good day. I'm having one of those myself (it's sunny, warm, and breezy here in the midst of this NJ city).

You have plenty for which to be grateful. Life is made up of little things. The precious ones are made up of littles. :) -part of a quote I got from somewhere

i luff Wil(sorry Anne...just one of those Left Coast things)....no...really...i love his/your JOY in everything that happens in life....that is just sooooooo cool....i want to be just like Uncle Wilbur when i grows up....said Peter Pan...

Wil,
So cool. On good days like that every traffic light can be red and the 100 degree weather feels invigorating. I hope your good days go on forever!

Wow, that IS a good day! Way to go, kid. :-)

The mention of Ryan and the birds made me tear up...just beautiful writing, once again.

Carpe diem, and love every minute of it.

To me, finches sound like they were programmed by old skool video game writers.

Savor.

If you lose the capacity to savor the good things, then your horizonal view is set too low.

Word, dawg.

(Roughy)

Aha! Some happiness for you. :) Hope there's much more of that to come.

Obviously someone on eBay thinks you're hot and sexy.

Hmmm, URL didn't show up.

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Just when I didn't think it was possible...I heart you even more! I'm glad you're having a good time! Finally, ehh? Enjoy it, man. You deserve it, Anne deserves it, and Ferris deserves it. And congrats on the grades, guys!

If the weather there is anything like it is in Santa Barbara, you may want to get on that A/C first.

The A/C here at work just died. Again. Lots of fun.

No, Wil, you go right ahead and gush to your heart's content. I totally understand, as I am having one of those "waiting for the other shoe to drop" weeks as well. I'm torn between wanting to roll around in all the ridiculously good stuff that's been coming my way, and holding my breath in anticipation of the moment when it will all go wrong.

I've never been good at following my own advice, but ENJOY IT, dude... you're worth it.

Just wanted to say that, thanks to the subject line, you've now got the TMbG song in my head.

say I'm the only bee in your bonnet...

Double plus excellent Wil. I don't know if it's emanating from, or attracting to wilwheaton.net, but I can attest to the fact that good times are going around. Either way, thanks for the good energy you are passing out in heaping helpings.

I'm glad you are having a good day. I am too, things are going good and I know the other shoe will drop soon, but I don't care, because the future will take care of itself and its important to appreciate the present.

Damn you Joan, now I want a slushie. Never speak of slushies to a pregnant woman.

It is so wonderful to read a description of someone's good day.

I don't hate you. Even on my really bad days, I'm happy with the way my life has turned out so far. It's always good to know that someone I like is having a good day. So have more, and write about them, so I can appreciate them.

hey wil!

so good to know that you are having a good day! i love days like that! those glo orb things are wicked cool! i want one!!!

yey for the photos! i am soooooooo excited about your book coming out....make it sooner!!!

anyway,
i hope you have more days like this one, we all know you deserve it!

take care
rach

I hear you on the home improvement, I just finished redecorating my front bath, single-handedly with two kids running around. We're talking paint and everything. We need new windows too, all that nice cool/warm air escaping...egads.

Glad to hear you're having an uber-good day. When you finish your mediation garden feel free to come over and do one for me, too. :)

Good times!

A/C first Wil! The windows and doors will leak the cool air out and the hot air in, but those can also be done in bits and pieces. It's grand to know that the hard work and labor you have shown is reaping it's harvest.

Wil,

You're not a hosebag, you're just a geek.

*rimshot*

I, too, do not hate you, though you can hate me because I have A/C. *grins*

Wil,

I am so happy for you and your family. Happiness is contagious--thanks so much for sharing with us. When you finish the renovations, meditation garden, etc. please post some photos in your gallery. Thanks.

Freeman :)

Oh. My. Mother. Jesus. Balls eh???

I'm glad things are going so well for ya, Wil.

I'm happy that you're happy. :)

You didn't blog it. You (moveable)typed it.

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"Hate" is such a strong word, Wil. I'd say more like a sort of semi-detached interest.
Get that A/C; it's gonna be brutal this year.

Good times indeed. :)

Screw the I-hate-you people. They're just jealous. And mean. Jealous meanieheads...

Wil

I *heart* you.

Have many many more happy days and please tell us all about them.

Way to go boys on those report cards. I think that deservs some A/C (this coming from Cleveland where we had SNOW today).

Melissa

Gotta give wil some love here. You are doing so much with your books, tv, voiceovers, interviews, Conventions, the websites and you still have time for the wife and kids, Just don't get "LEAVE IT TO BEAVER" on us "WARD" :)

Wil,
It is not a crime to have a good day. Good news does not, seem to, sell but I like it anyway.

FABIAN

Wil,

Glad your having such a good day. Being a Sicilian from Queens, New York I hope your meditation garden includes tomatoes, red peppers and some basil. Then you could make some wicked hot sauce for yout 4th of July bar-b-que.

Take care
Bart

Aw, Wil, that's great!

*hug*

I'm so happy that things are going well for you.

You know, this could be just the beginning of good things. I hope so!

Very cool, Wil -- you're one of the Cool Kids in my book any day.

Congrats to the boys on the great report cards; I think you owe them a reward, say a long-promised dungeon crawl? ;)

Oh, and today is a good day for me too; it's my 13th wedding anniversary and I haven't killed the spouse yet, which means one of us must be doing something right. :lol:

Looking forward to seeing the pics...it's okay, the spouse and I have an agreement: we can window shop as much as we want -- just no fondling the merchandise. ;)

Counting down the hours till the JAG release party!

I also believe in the yin and yang of the Universe and worry when things are too good. Hey, I have something in common with Wil!

People send you hate mail when you write how life is treating you well? What a waste of life's energy.

It's great to hear about the report cards. Good for them.

Enjoy the good times. You happy, me happy. We all win.

I'm elated for you, Wil. You're so wonderfully enthusiastic that it's impossible to be bitter about your good days, even when I'm in the midst of struggling with my senior thesis. Anyone who thinks differently is clearly a terrorist and must be shot on sight.

Heh. No. I just kid.

Um. Only about the terrorist thing. I really am happy for you.

Rock on Wil! :D Grats to you, Anne, Nolan, and Ryan! You all are a very lucky family! ;)

Pasadena? Yikes. Must have been hot there today. Marina Del Rey was pretty toasty, but Pasadena must have been like hell, or Texas.

Glad to hear you're having a good day... but I wonder, do your kids read WWdN, and if so, what do they think when you mention them?

Ah, I'm glad I am not the only one having the this day is too good to last paranoia.

But dude... I'm glad for you. I guess your balance theory is kickin in.

And yes, baby birds kick ass. It's sweet how you notice the little charming things in life. :) I love that.

I'm glad things are going well for you Wil. I'm looking forward to JAG, have been for the past....2 years????

Cookiemo

Hey Wil-
I'm glad that you had such a good day, and I hope it continues. :) As I was walking to the car this morning, I thought to myself, darn, I don't have time to go around the side of the house and see how my lilies-of-the-valley are doing. And then I thought about that cheesy quote about stopping to smell the roses. Well, I still didn't look at my lilies, but today after work (right before my friends come over and we watch Enterprise and then TNG DVDs) I will go out and look at my lilies. Good for you for Nolan and Ryan's grades; good for your baby finches- nothing's better than nature!; good for you for getting a/c (although I don't have it- I love the heat, and anyway, I live in NJ); good for your cool photos; good for your meditation garden (build one for me next, would you?); and good for anything else I might have forgotten. Maybe this is karma for what you're doing for your friend... In any case, I think you deserve such happiness, and I think you've got the right attitude. Thanks for having a little of it rub off on me- it'll get me through my workday...
-Alicia
www.thewagband.com

Don't worry, you'll jinx yourself. Just let the good times roll ;)

I think you are blessed with an unusually large amount of praise. Some people only get the hatin' and never any lovin'. I think it can be attributed to your seeming very real in your journal writings. Feel lucky dude! Think to yourself, "Wow, I have such a great ratio of good to bad feedback, aren't I lucky.!"

I look forward to needing A/C one day. We still have pockets of snow where I am. bleh

I only hate a couple of people. People who have really wronged me and my family. I do however have a semi-detached disinterested commerce with many. Or even a mindless, probably baseless, sort of vague aversion to many more. Not you though. How can anyone hate someone they have an opportunity to get to know.

"To love him is to know him is to love him." Ifn i 'membered dat rite.

Oh yeah, I actually wanted to say that we have too many birds where I am, and they wake me up too early. I mean, birds are nice and all that, but please oh please, can't they just wait a couple of hours before they start making all the racket?

Hi, could someone explain to a non-American what A/C and the 3.3 on the Report Cards mean??

Thanks!

P.S. I'm happy Wil is having a good time.

Life is a big sine wave. Full of ups and downs. Usually the wave is long and steady, other times the wave is short and has a high peak. I always hope that your good times are long, and the bad times short. Take care

Life is good.

happiness is..

(fill in the blank)

glad to see your having a good day Wil!

May they continue to rock. \m/

Wil, I'm glad you're having a good day too. And I do not hate you either.

Good days are gifts! Don't hide your joy. That would be like ordering a hot fudge sundae and telling them only make it luke warm fudge so no one would resent you.

Dooood. *eye roll* Don't let the playa hatas run you crazy.

As for less good times in future? Yeah, just remember, you will NEVER have to wake up Mitt Romney. That's gotta be worth something...

\m/ to you, Wil. May many more A/C units-worth of happiness sprinkle your life with even more coolness.

I hate you ;-)

How can you have a Great Day in 102 degree weather!

without A/C?

I just don't get it. It isn't fair. :-)

Everyone deserves good days every now and then! Don't feel bad for the good things that are happening in your life - you've worked hard and earned every one of them.

A la Ben:

I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really, I'm not actually your friend

Please, continue to filibuster vigilantly.

Hey Wil,

Thanks so much for sharing your good news with us. You know that good moods, like the bad ones, are contagious? Thanks for sharing the good vibes with me today. Having a good day, myself...and I'm glad that your column reinforces that.

Congrats to Ryan and Nolan.... Big accomplishment. Grades are important. And congrats to you and Anne. Kids do better in school with supportive parents.

And the fixing up of the house? You deserve it! You've worked hard!

-AT

Dude, just roundfile those hate emails. Use spamassassin or some other bayesian filter and teach it to pick out your hate mail and send'em to the bit bucket.

shirtless photo on ebay - WANT! How cute are you?? I am so very, very excited for JAG to come out I can barely contain myself. Go, Wil!

Just remember, life is like a sine wave... it's really frelling hard to understand why it does what it does :P

(not to mention the sickening up and downing of the thing...)

BTW, damn you and your TMBG titles, now I've got that line stuck in my head but can't, for the life of me, remember which song it's from...

Dear Wil,

I hate...the Bush administration.

So there.

Birdhouse in your soul, by TMBG! Now that is a great song that makes me VERY HAPPY.

Peace,
G.

while you're at it, keep the night light on inside the birdhouse in your soul....

You let me take a picture of you (with me, of course) and you look totally adorable and I look like crap. Such is life, I meet someone I've always admired, a big moment in life for me, get a pic, and I look like sh**.

The point.....just wanted to say, you take great pictures are very photogenic to me :)

Your happiness makes my happiness even happier!
I'm so happy for you!

I'm happy Wil is happy. I love it when those around me have well deserved happiness.

I'm also happy because I just realized it's my one year wwdn anniversary! It seems like I just started reading this blog and already a year has past.

Wil, thanks wil for helping make this year enjoyable for me. Can't wait for JAG!

I hate the term blog. I prefer the term iLog.

Blending families is always hard. It sounds like your patience and care are really finally being rewarded -- good for you. I know your step-son will benefit tremendously from the connection.

So just when are you and your wife planning on your own little production?

I have a secret to tell
in my electrical well
it's a simple message
and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells.

I love that song!

I don't hate you, Wil. Well, maybe just a little bit. Okay, more than a little bit. Fine! I'm a seething cauldron of hate because you're smarter and more successful and funnier and a better writer and having a better life than me right now. But at least you're not cuter than me. Okay, I lied again. You ARE cuter than me.

But I still love you, Uncle Willie! Because despite this seething cauldron of hate that I have for you I still think you rock and you deserve the best things in life.

I lied yet again. There is no seething cauldron of hate. How can I hate someone as cool and intelligent and cute and funny as you?

*fume* Nevermind, I think I hate you again. *kiss*

But it's great that you're having a terrific day. Reading about all the fabulous things that are happening to you makes me smile. Here's to continued great days!

I'm glad you're having a great day! I read WWdN often, and, well, you're awesome.

That is all. :)

Using the word blog as a verb does not do away with your inherent coolness.

Who says so? I do.

Lin

So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly
My name is blue canary one note spelled l-i-t-e
My story's infinite
Like the Longines Symphonette it doesn't rest

and I only hate you because you haven't reviewed the TMBG concert yet. Not that I'm impatient or anything.

Your entry today reminded of the show you were part of called (i think)"Where are they now".

In your segment the background video over the narrative had you opening and walking through a lot of doors. It repeated that several times. Not highly imaginative, but my point is that you have now opened so many doors in your real life.

So the gist of this comment is that "Life does imitate art".

silly?

Oh well. Wil, thanks for keeping up the site.

About that meditation garden...let us know what's in it. I'm thinking of putting a garden in my yard and I need some ideas. LOL

I once heard any day you are still alive is a good day :)

Whenever I feel as though things are going great I say my thanks. Worrying that it things are going to "get" you will only create that reality.

Know that you are in control of yourself; create good things. It'll happen!

Sorry for preaching! Hope things cool down out in California soon. I remember living out there in Bakersfield for a year; there's nothing like the feeling of dry cleaning your lungs when you walk outside in the summer and it's 112 searing degrees...then we moved to "Hot-lanta" (Atlanta, Georgia) for a few years and redefined humidity. Now live in Illinois; where we're getting blown away on the prairie. 45 mile per hour sustained winds with gusts @60.

Better go. Great to meet everybody!

Wil,

I actually think its wonderful to see anyone have a good day. I had one last week that I have been telling everyone about. I was just being nice to someone at the grocery store, let the guy use my frequent shopper card. He asked the cashier how much it actually saved him and when he had gone before I knew it she was handing me a 5 dollar bill saying that the gentleman had given it to her for me to say thank you, and to tell me that one day he would treat me to dinner. Ive let many people use that card and never even got so much as a thanks out of it. I tried to follow the guy and he was gone. He didnt have to do that. It was something that I hadnt ever had happen to me in the almost 3 years of shopping at the one store. But it felt good to know that there were still people who were nice out there. Good days are 1 in a million for me as well, but let me tell you I enjoy each one, and its WONDERFUL to see that you had such an amazing day! Hope that things just keep getting better and better for you guys. And I hope that your friend Kris is doing well. =)

Lotus

Eh, life pretty much sucks for me right now (I'm in the process of procrastinating and not studying for my Asian Philosophy final like I should be), so it's great to come here and read that things are going awesome with you and your's.

Enjoy it while it lasts, and I hope you have another kick ass day tomorrow!

Is that a They Might be Giants quote? If it is, cool points to Wil.

Actually, for me it's usually a large white sperm whale that falls out of the sky, but oh, well.

You're living in Pasadena without A/C?

Wil-

If you ever want to reassure yourself, even in dark times, that life is good, spend two nights watching these movies, respectively, as my wife and I just have:

1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2) The Pianist

I now feel sufficiently guilty for every time I whined about my state of existence. After this little double feature, I have reaffirmed that:

1) This is all there is...Enjoy it.

2) Overall, the severity of bad things that can happen to a citizen of a given nation become much less severe when one can eliminate "ethnic cleansing" from the list.

Hi Wil,

I was just hoping you would update your team training page so it will say how much you have raised by now. Do you control that, or does it only keep track of what comes in through the website?

Arwen

Wil, I think it's great that in this day and age good things still happen to good people. Life is what you make it to be. Thanks for sharing a bit of that happiness with us. :^)

I have those sort of days, too... Well, every now and again, especially when projects I work on go well.
However prepping my first movie is being a headche, and living in Hollywood can be a major pain, too.
Then again, I've seen the good and bad sides of life, so I can't grumble.
Anyhow, glad to see things are going well.

What's there to hate you about? Tell those sad people to go enjoy life a bit :P

I got a pay rise this month :D

And our Ent seems to have acquired some chirpy little 'uns too but they're well hidden, it's only their little FEED ME chirrups that give their position away a bit.

And Gizmo is still trying to catch that evil magpie that tries to kill them so hopefully they're safe this year.....

I just want to know if you are going to wear "the shirt" on the cover?

I've noticed a pattern of all your posts being named after TMBG songs, or using words from TMBG songs, or being inspired by TMBG songs..yet, I haven't seen you ever mention them in your posts or in your "Listen" section, just an observation ;)

Oh yeah, thanks also for The Get Up Kids, I'd never heard them before seeing your blog and now I love them, notch one up for the internet word of mouth.

Once again, one of your posts has made me cry. In a good way, of course. I'm glad htings are going so well for you. From everything written here, you deserve it.
And I'm SO glad I could be a part of donating to your walkathon. That makes me happy.
So thank you!

I don't hate you either, may not always agree with you. The hate-mailers are trolls who also post to places like Yahoo! message boards. They are also jealous.

Wil,
I would love to hear about the anticipated design and construction of your meditation garden. I have been wanting to create one, and after a long wait, we finally have the space and the cash to do so.

As always, best of luck!

Wil,

Not to get off subject on this thread, but I just tried to post a comment to your next one about Felix and I keep getting a message that I cannot post a comment to it and was wondering what's up? So, just checking if I can get through on this one...

--joe

I really laughed when I read the first part of this post. I often feel the same way - well, not EXACTLY the same way, I don't think about flying sharks - that at any moment this grand glorious day I'm having will reverse itself and completely suck.
All I can say is to relax, enjoy the good days when they come, and try not to worry about them not lasting.
Which is easier said than done.