Some reasons to be cheerful

My wife and children. Close friends and family. People in whose house you're always welcome just because you're you, irrespective of successes or failures, good deeds or bad, even if you've been a shit, a disappointment to the decent, a source of pain. Beyond those:

• Landau and Lifshitz course of theoretical physics
• Borges Fictions: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tetrius; The Approach to Al Mu'tasim; Funes the Memorious;... Here's a Borges eulogy; no such article can really reflect what these stories do in the head of any individual reader.
• cask strength single malt whisky
• Paul Bley
• Consume Red
• Diamanda Galas
• Cardiacs (this song is so fantastic, it shouldn't be freely available like this. Go and make the world a better place to say thanks because you could listen freely to this. And buy the CDs)
• Trout Mask Replica; Mekanik Destruktiv Kommandoh; Red
• Keith Tippett
• random Glasgow people, don't even know their names mostly
• horizons as the Sun goes down
• Ito calculus

That'll do for this evening. More next lifetime.