Happy things

Snow.
Getting books in my pigeonhole every day.
Tron, Labyrinth, Name of the Rose, All Quiet on the Preston Front
Visual representations of bugs going from all red to all white .
Having organised browser bookmarks.
Having a browser bookmark to javascript:alert("Hello Jack"). It always makes me smile.
Nice friends.
Nice parents.
Bridge.
Dominos order webpage, all very streamlined, the final confirm button being "Feed me!"
Anticipation of writing.

Bridge

I've definitely got better. Better at bidding, seeing more situations as standard. Better at defense. Better at knowing partners and guessing what they're thinking. Better at forming a plan and then playing it out (which counting is a corollorary of). Better at keeping score. I definitely need more practice at making shaky two levels contracts, and playing quickly, though.

And I played with a partner used to loose ACOL and did ok, though I'm still at sea with people who have exact and prerequisites for bids different to mine.

I was pleased to be able to double on saturday, I think for the first time ever. Sorry to declarer, who wasn't to know I had AKJ10x of trumps, but I think it illustrates why I don't believe in giving points for trump honour holdings. By that rule, that would be a 100pt bonus. By doubling 4 down from 200pts to 800pts you get a 600pt bonus.