Small things in life make me really happy. I keep an Easy Button on my dashboard, to pretend that it will turn red lights green. Similarly,  this happy fellow – left over and unwanted (!) after last year’s office white-elephant exchange – keeps me chipper (most days) at work:

And then there are the days that you show up, the phones aren’t working because it’s daylight savings time, the instructions to fix them are on the server, but the server has crashed for god-knows why, and you could fix the server, if only you had a USB keyboard because the motherboard isn’t reading P2 connections, everyone FREAKS OUT when you open the case to fix it, one of your 2 man crew called in and you have 4 customers waiting with sofas to be picked up, and your replacement has decided he doesn’t want to come in today, and, oh, the light over your desk has FALLEN OUT OF THE CEILING over the weekend.

Then the happy cat isn’t as effective. But that was yesterday. Today? The cat is amazing.

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