not to put too fine a point on it . . .

Do you ever have a day that’s so good, you start to worry?
“Damn, man! Today is such a good day!” I will say to myself, “I wonder when a shark is going to drop out of the sky and cause a chain reaction accident that makes me late for dinner?”
This is one of those days.
Well, honestly, it started yesterday, when I shot the cover for Just A Geek.
Oh. My. Mother. Jesus. Balls! I am so excited! The photos all look amazing!
Here’s a not-so-secret: I hate having my picture taken, and it’s not just because each click of the shutter captures a little bit more of my ever-diminishing soul. The truth is, I just don’t feel like I photograph well, and as someone who grew up constantly picked on, I want to look cool, you know? (Is it possible to look cool without being one of The Cool Kids? Because I know lots of people who are cool — my wife, for example, is very cool — but who aren’t one of The Cool Kids.)
Well.
The I have found a photographer who makes me look cool (I know, I’m as shocked at you are) and who is fun to work with . . . and the photos are so good, it’s made me want the book to come out even faster than I already did.
I’ve also gotten some incredibly exciting news about two very cool additions (being done by other people) for Just A Geek, but I won’t blog about them until —
Wait. Did I just say “blog about them?” Did I just use the word “blog” as a verb?
Fuck. I did. Okay, so I am now officially a total hosebag.
*sigh*
Well, at least I look cool in some pictures, right?
Anyway, I won’t WRITE about it until I have 100% confirmation from the über cool people who are responsible . . . but holy mother of crap, is it cool!
Okay. Where was I?
Oh. Yes. Today is a very good day:

  • In the past 36 hours, WWdN readers have sent in close to $3,000 in sponsorship for our Rock N Roll Marathon in June. Added to what we already have, we’re over $20,000, and we have three weeks to hit our goal of $25,000. We are overwhelmed with your generosity, and we are confident that we’ll make it!

  • A few weeks ago, two finches built a nest in our breezeway, and a few days ago four baby finches hatched. The only thing that makes me as happy as the chirping of those little guys when they’re ready to eat is the songs their parents sing on the telephone wire over my back yard.

  • Ryan and Nolan got their report cards yesterday. They both have GPA’s over 3.3, which is HUGE, considering all the stress they’ve had to deal with for the bulk of this school year. As a matter of fact, these are the best report cards they’ve ever had, and I am so proud of them I want to cry a little bit.

  • Over the past two months or so, I feel Ryan reaching out to me — closing the emotional distance — for the first time in the eight years we’ve been in each other’s lives. I’ve always let our relationship be where he wants it to be, and I feel like he is ready for (and wants it to be) closer now . . . and that makes me want to cry even more than the great grades.

  • Anne and I are finally able to do the work on our house that we’ve wanted to do since we moved in five years ago. First, we’re doing new windows and doors, then A/C! Hooray!

  • Anne is in charge of the inside of the house, and I get to be in charge of the landscaping of our backyard, which will finally include the meditation garden I’ve wanted all these years.

I could go on and on, but I’ve noticed that when things are good, and I celebrate how good they are, the “I hate you” e-mail increases exponentially . . . so I’ll just stop right after this:
I’m so incredibly grateful that life is currently as good as it is, and I think that it’s important to enjoy times like these when they come along.
I know it won’t always be as good as it is right now, but times like this make the bad times more bearable . . . and as longtime readers know, I’ve had more than my fair share of the bad times over the last few years.

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106 thoughts on “not to put too fine a point on it . . .”

  1. 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.

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

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

  6. 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
    http://www.thewagband.com

  8. 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.

  9. 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?

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  15. 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…

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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

  21. 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.

  22. 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!

  23. Just remember, life is like a sine wave… it’s really frelling hard to understand why it does what it does 😛
    (not to mention the sickening up and downing of the thing…)

  24. 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…

  28. 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 🙂

  30. 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!

  32. 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?

  33. 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!

  34. 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!

  37. 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.

  38. 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.

  40. 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!

  41. 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

  42. 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!

  46. 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.

  47. 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

  48. 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. :^)

  49. 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.

  50. What’s there to hate you about? Tell those sad people to go enjoy life a bit 😛
    I got a pay rise this month 😀
    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…..

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