almost any fruit cold from the refrigerator
1. the rose bush in our back yard has started blooming. that though roses are not typically a flower deborah (who cares deeply about flowers) cares about, that she knows i (a person who doesn't really care about flowers) enjoy these, and so carefully cut the wild blackberry vines (her enemy) intertwined with it while still preserving it to bloom.
2. two instances of feeling annoyed by a UX papercut and then realizing that the problem is solved and i just wasn't seeing the solution: in zelda, feeling annoyed i couldn't skip through the (boring, forgettable) dialog with NPCs faster and realizing that hitting the "b" button instead of the "a" button lets me do so. similarly, on the apple TV remote, while it's possible to skip forward by "clicking" the top touch button left and right, it's also easy for this to trigger or some other event like going back to the beginning of the episode or skipping to the next one, which is annoying and i learned by accident can be avoided by instead just tapping on the left or right side instead of clicking it in, which is both faster and more effective.
3. a bag of lychees cold from the refrigerator (almost any fruit cold from the refrigerator). the experience of eating lychee, which feels like the fruit equivalent of eating blue crabs—tearing open the hard (yet easily tearable) exterior shell, suck/squeezing the fruit into my mouth (with a burst of extra juice held in the cup of the shell), cleaning the perfumed fruit off the seed with my teeth and eating it in a burst of sweetness and then immediately cracking open the next one.
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