I was sitting around the apartment with nothing to do so went to the Ace Hardware store--paint section--and was looking up and down the shelves of untinted and pretinted base, when the salesclerk finally noticed a potential customer and asked what color I was looking for and I told him a subdued shade of ennui. I took several gallons home and spent the rest of the day painting the living room. It now matches my mood.
I try to remember the old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".
So when I watch the news and it's got yet another car chase from LA I'm glad it was such a slow day that that's the major story, no quakes killing tens or hundreds of thousands, none of our carriers were taken out by a Sunburst missile, no asteroids sighted that will hit us!
Then I remember I should still paint my house...