there's some song by the beatles about the sun...

some days are excellent because of something you have been looking forward to for a long long time...like when you have been planning to go to the waterpark for months, and you finally find yourself on top of your first waterslide of the day.

other days are excellent because it was not expected to be excellent, and the excellent-ness emerges from a few small events that on their own would only amount to a temporary mood enhancement. add a few of those events together, though, and you've got yourself a red letter day (i just looked up the origin of 'red letter day'...apparently it has a lot to do with religious holidays. i am not using it in that fashion. i just mean 'an ass kickingly awesome day').

today, obviously, is one of those days, for the following reasons:

1. it is friday.

2. we are finally being treated to some nice weather.

3. i put on a pair of jeans this morning and placed my hand in a pocket, and my hand emerged with a twenty dollar bill.

4. i went outside for the first time without a jacket, and comfortably walked around for an hour without feeling a chill.

5. during my lunch hour, i saw an ice cream truck. i bought a small chocolate and vanilla swirl cone.

6. the cone was served by an incredibly friendly ice cream man, who was enthusiastically having the exact same conversation with every one of his customers, along the lines of the customer saying how the weather must be affecting his sales..."yup, i sure am glad the weather has changed. business has definitely improved. thank you, have a wonderful day." the ice cream man said this in a very gruff voice. he wore a leather vest, and sported long cranial and facial hair. his t shirt said something about some guy named harley.

6. while sitting in queen's park, eating my ice cream, i watched an extremely muscular bare-chested dude wearing beat up cargo shorts play with devil sticks. he suddenly stopped knocking the sticks about and yelled, "poooooooooochie! POOCHIE! COME BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" a teeny tiny chihuahua w/ a pink collar emerged from a bush. the muscle man gave the dog a small tap on the nose and admonished his bad behaviour.
"now stay PUT!"
back to his devil sticks.

7. summer is coming.

7. it is only 2:11pm. so much fun day left.