happiest days sighted in the wild, keeping good company

I always tell people who are successful to take a moment and enjoy it, especially if it’s someone I know and respect, and I know how hard they’ve worked to earn their success. (Otis, I’m looking in your direction right now.)

But I’m not so good at taking this particular bit of my own advice. My sense of responsibility to my family, and the uncertain economy we find ourselves living in right now forces me to keep my head down and stay focused on whatever the next thing is. This keeps me motivated, but it doesn’t leave a lot of room to just sit back and enjoy things, which is something I think I need to do a little more often, especially on a day like today where I just feel . . . stabby.

It’s easy for me to lose sight of the thousands of copies of Happiest Days that have made the journey from my office, through my living room, and into the hands of real people all over the world, but in an effort to enjoy the good things a little bit, I present this photo of The Happiest Days of Our Lives, keeping some very good company, on vacation.

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It made me really happy to see this picture, for a lot of reasons that I can’t detail without feeling like a jerk, so I’ll just say thank you to WWdN and HDoOL reader Amanda C. for sharing a little bit of her vacation with me, and allowing me to share it with you.

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21 thoughts on “happiest days sighted in the wild, keeping good company”

  1. From your living room, to your hands, then mine, I have received the book. Thank you. Too bad for my other request.

  2. Sorry to hear you’re feeling stabby.
    But dude, your book out on someone else’s vacation, next to the Heinlein anthology — Isn’t that an awesome feeling? The first time I saw my work out in the wild, I felt like I’d finally become a real artist.
    So get out of your own way, and enjoy it. 🙂

  6. Looks like my purse, except when I get to work, I can’t carry in the ipod or the DS (ok, mine’s Zelda) plus I have to take out the flash drive(s), the digital camera and the cell phone/PDA. So, Wil’s book is the only thing allowed in. I hadn’t thought of it that way…

  7. I guess I’ll look on amazon.com for that book. Nope .. looks like monolith press and I ordered it. Once I give it a read .. I’ll most likely blog it … like a lot of geeky stuff I do. blastwave.org/dclarke/blog

  8. Congratulations, Wil! This must have sent a huge warm fuzzy throughout your entire body. 🙂
    May I say that this book is a great carry-on book for a long flight…helps the time fly by (horrible pun NOT intended).
    Keep up the good work!

  9. I have a recent “Wil on vacation” picture too. Only it’s the $11 magazine I bought to make sure they said you were a writer now. Can be seen here.

  13. First, Wil, everyone* feels stabby vis a vis the uncertain economic times. That’s sort of par for the course now that we’ve grown up and have families that we need to support. However, your job is incredibly cool, you seem to love doing it, and you get to meet all sorts of figures (such as, for example, Wil Wheaton) that make the rest of us drooling fanboy (or girl if you are one) masses collapse into pools of squeeing jelly. Now, enjoy the other perks, like having your drooling fanboys (or girls if you are one) send in shots of your work in the wild. Awesome for you!
    Secondly, and totally unrelated, except in the “maybe it will cheer you up” sort of way, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog Act I has been released! (
    http://drhorrible.com/index.html).
    Now, I’m off to let the caffeine in my system die down enough so that I can type without hitting each letter three times.
    *Where everyone does not include septuagenarian presidential candidates with sugar mommas and oil executives.

  14. You’ve really sold thousands of copies? That’s excellent! Really. I’ve worked in publishing for 11 years. Thousands of copies of a book that’s not on Amazon or at B&N… that’s truly impressive. Keep it up! Fuck the overlords!

  15. Wil, thank you so much for not only posting my picture and acknowledging my blog, but also for providing me with some great reading material on my vacation! It was the first real family vacation we’d had in a while which didn’t require my husband to be working as well. I feel honored to be able to share it with you and the rest of your readers. It took me so long to find out you’d shared with everyone because we lost our internet connection in our new house. I’m at the library right now reading all of this and just have no other words to describe this feeling, except “Awesome!” You’ve truly touched this geek girl’s life in more ways than one. I’m glad I made you feel a little less “stabby” and go ahead and revel in your success. You deserve it! Thanks again! Amanda C.

  16. I’ve got best days – but I want all the other stuff in that picture too – especially the ds.
    I think the above idea about photos of the book is a good one.

  17. Dude, my proudest moment (next to the birth of my son) is being part of the Wheaton 300! Ok, that’s a bit of a stretch, but I do have a frame for the letter I received with the book. Oh, and Happiest Days went with me to Dallas on the plane. I love the idea of a Flicker group for people reading your book 🙂

  18. It was a People magazine summer issue of “Child Stars: Where are They Now?” that I bought.
    I already my copy of HD and needed a true “rest my brain” kinda day. Sometimes, the Wil, he makes me think.

  20. That picture reminds me of one of those pictures in magazines where they get some of the latest gadgets and throw them together in a completely unrelated environment, (such as on a beach, in this case) and take the picture like all the objects have somehow miraculously come together.
    “iPod, $200. Nintendo DS lite, $150. Wil Wheaton’s ‘Just a Geek’, RRP $29.95. All of these things on a beach together? Priceless.” 😉

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