A walk in the park, a good cup of coffee in the morning, a smile from the cashier at the store; It is the small things in life. Right? Big events are over-hyped in my opinion.
 After all the gifts are unwrapped and the toys have been played with on Christmas morning everyone is bored and a little sad. The fun is over. But, the little things keep on giving for some reason. It also seems that the longer you had to wait for said thing, the more enjoyment you get. Every good small encounter, neat fix, or cool little thrift store find gives me more satisfaction and joy than any large, expensive, overhyped item/event/etc.

 A word that goes hand in hand with this feeling of joy and excitement is "fizz". This is a relatively new word to me (I heard it from a guy I follow on Youtube). It is used as such: "Awesome! This new gadget gives me the fizz!" We have all felt this feeling. The jittery, bubbly, butterflies from something that is surprisingly exciting. Go ahead and think back to the last thing that made you feel this way...

 I find that some of the most satisfying and joyful things for me are when I find a clever solution to a problem I have. If the fix is cheap, aesthetically pleasing, and/or over-engineered, then I'm gonna be stoked about it.
  The problem that I aimed to fix recently is a problem with my keyboard. It is always on. Unless I unplug it (annoying) or I lock my computer (not always possible). Here are two common scenarios I find myself in that will explain my plight.

1. I'm in a meeting and my cat wants to join. She hops on my desk and walks around. Her brain is small and she does not understand what a keyboard is or that she really should not walk on one. She walks on it and now I am looking at a different screen and I have left the meeting. I am now having a bad time.
2. I walk away from my desk for a moment to get another cup of coffee. Again the cat thing happens. Now the files I was working on are all deleted and I am again having a bad time.

 My issue is a simple one. I want the cat on my desk to not be able to type on my computer. My first thought towards a solution was to buy a new keyboard that comes with a detachable usb-c cable. This does not check the cheap or over-engineered boxes of my want list, so this would be non fizz-producing.
 My next (and final) idea was to add a button to my keboard. A kill-switch, if you will. When I want my keyboard to stop being connected, I just press the button.

 I found a button in my box of old computer parts, figured out how to wire it up (red pin on usb is the power), and wired it to the keyboard. It didn't take too long to get this sorted out, but it's a fun thing that solves a very specific problem I have. And, I didn't ruin the $11 thrifted keyboard like my wife said I would.

 I think things that give you the fizz can make your day. Enough of those days can make a pretty good week. And soon enough you have a pretty good life built partially on the enjoyment of small things.

 Hopefully this entire site is a way for me to preserve events, projects, and items that produce that feeling. And I hope if you're here reading this that you get that feeling secondhand.