Last month I read Michael Shermer's always excellent column in Scientific American. He was discussing happiness, and makes the point that "happiness is better correlated with satisfaction, than with pleasure. .[because].. Satisfaction is an emotion that captures the uniquely human need to impart meaning to one's activities"

Tuesday morning I called the local CAT office to follow up on the dead bore at Yulumbu. As a result of our phone calls, CAT had a team flown out to the Community on Monday and had the well fixed by early afternoon. I also learned that the local Shire (government) staff have been alerted and are going to work with CAT to be sure that if vital services like power and water are interrupted for repairs, that standby or temporary equipment will be available so remote communities do not have to go without.

Throwing stars makes me happy...