Local man reads a book by Arthur Schopenhauer about the Wisdom of Life, & comes away w/ some useful nuggets, all the while listening to excellent, fun tunes & chatting w/ coworkers about the subject of happiness.
Cookies are indulged in [wonderful gift], truck seatbelts are repaired [thank goodness], the sun is shining [praise the lord], & work is going smoothly, w/ job #2 to follow. So many reasons to be grateful!
UPDATE:
Quoting Schopenhauer:
Beauty is partly an affair of health. It may be reckoned as a personal advantage; though it does not, properly speaking, contribute directly to our happiness. It does so indirectly, by impressing other people; and it is no unimportant advantage, even in man. Beauty is an open letter of recommendation, predisposing the heart to favor the person who presents it. As is well said in these lines of Homer, the gift of beauty is not lightly to be thrown away, that glorious gift which none can bestow save the gods alone–
{Greek: outoi hapoblaet erti theon erikuoea dora, ossa ken autoi dosin, ekon douk an tis eloito -- Iliad 3, 65}.
from "The Wisdom of Life," 1901