Great thread and opening post, Tyll.
Today, I had three great beamer moments:
1) Found a four-table, hole-in-the-wall soul food diner and kissed my diet goodbye with Dave's Famous Cracked Conch. Fried yum.
2) Stopped by my bicycle store to get a look at my new bike. I felt like a little kid sneaking a peek at Christmas presents on Christmas eve. It looks even better than I thought it would, and I can't wait to get it tomorrow morning. Smiles all afternoon.
And the best:
3) One of my patients, a Seminole kid, a combo of baby-boy sweet and hardcore gang banger with No Love tattooed on his eyelids and a money symbol on his cheek, came bursting in my office at 5PM. I'd helped get him a job a few weeks ago (I usually don't help anyone, but with his felonies and tattoos, I made some calls), and he had his first paycheck ever in his hands. $177.67. He was beaming, and couldn't stop smiling and staring it. I've known him for six months and I've never seen him smile unless he was trying to charm you into co-signing something very very wrong. It was a beautiful end to a very long week.