How not to cheer up

I stopped to look through the pile of saved newspapers while cleaning up a closet.

Very depressing:

Hurricane Andrew (in great detail, living in Miami at the time)
Slidell floods
9/11/2001
Columbia
Hurricane Katrina
35W bridge collapse

Semi-encouraging:
Newspapers from when the kids were born
Tapestry getting a new building
Retek moving into new building (the company technically doesn't exist anymore after being gobbled up by Oracle and moving elsewhere and that building STILL has the Retek logo on it...)
Obama winning