Meme Lemming: 10 Things Meme

Gakked from just about everyone!

Rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Tag 10 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs.

Because all I've been doing lately is grousing:

1) Dinner out at the sushi place last weekend with Wil in celebration of our 18th anniversary.
2) Coming home from work, I walk up to my step and the wildlife sitting in my small garden-area scatters: rabbit, squirrel, chipmunk and at least 10 different birds. I love that little touch of the country even if I am living in town.
3) Watching Myria as she is reading a book she really enjoys.
4) Waking up at 6 am this morning, rolling over and going back to sleep.
5) The intense blue that Wisconsin skies are this time of year.
6) The fact that my library has free wireless interent.
7) Spending the night watching "The Pursuit of Happyness" with my Mom and Myr.
8) The sound fallen leaves make when you walk through them, and the way you can track the grasshoppers as they jump through them.
9) Having Wil make us breakfast this morning.
10) Having all the ingredients to make stew and the fact that none of those came from a store. Okay, the flour and some of the seasoning did, but everything else is home grown/harvested. Nothing like raising your own food to make you feel self-reliant.

General question to CSI fans...

Do any of you hang out at Talk CSI over at CSI Files? And if you do, has that forum always been so full of people who are so very... rabid in their opinions? Or is that only the NY forum?

I read Talk CSI for it's news and spoilers, but in the two years of being a member of the forum I've found that the conversations in the forums are on the far side of scary. You can't read two posts without running into hostile opinions or diatribes about the characters and the actors. I've been fortunate that whenever I've posted something I've just been ignored because I've noticed that lately disagreeing with the majority opinion means that you become the snark of the day. And are the reviews for CSI:LV and CSI:Miami accurate? I always used to rely on the summary/reviews from there to fill is some of the episodes I've missed. Lately (well, since I've been able to see some of the episodes) I've noticed that the reviewer often gets things wrong -- mis-attributed quotes, actions out of sequence, missed plot points.

I realize that online material is only as good as the people who post to it, and that forums are often defined by the lowest common denominator. I know that I generally just lurk at forums and I don't really have an interest in the LV or Miami forums, but is it the same over with them or is NY just blessed to be populated by high-school mentality cliques?