Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday in the year.
Christmas, while full of gifts, has become way too commercial for my tastes, since we’re all encouraged to dig ourselves deep into debt to guess at buying stuff for people we love, with the goal of giving the ones we love the most (i.e. if I love you, I spend more money on you). The new year also makes me think like Thanksgiving does, but I primarily tend to focus on the year past, rather than the year ahead.
So, it is without further delay that I write what I am thankful for this year:
First, and foremost, I’m thankful to my family (immediate and extended, and adopted family members included – uncle Liam) for always being there. Is there any other reason to live, besides living for family? They are too numerous to mention individually here, but I especially want to call out to my mom and dad and say “thank you” for letting me be me. I know that many times we do see eye-to-eye on politics and the world, but even on those occasions when we don’t, you let me go and do my thing.
I’m thankful to have a job that pays relatively well, and is rather secure given the current economic environment. I’m happy to be one of the 85% of employable Americans who have a job with good benefits that allows me to continue my education. I wish the economic stimulus packages first suggested by president Bush, pushed by president Obama, and approved by the Congress would have done more; however, I suspect that when we look back on this period we will find that the deep economic hole in which the country found itself will prove to have been much deeper than originally analyzed to be.
Thank YOU for being you. While it may seem tautological for me to say so, without you, there is no me. It’s only through our relationships that we become “us”.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
You Need A Budget is on its way to moving to public beta testing for its Version 3 product. I’m jazzed up about this because, as a Mac user, there is a complete dearth of products that will work on the Mac.
I’ve used YNAB 2 on a Virtual Machine, but switched back to Quicken because… well, because I don’t know why… but the switch was a bad move – especially moving to Quicken 2010.
I will switch back to YNAB 3 when it comes back out and I start over with my financial tracking, because it will run natively on the Mac platform, since it will be an Adobe Air-based application.
I can’t wait!!!
Check out more at this link here…
So, I’m riding down the bike path that parallels Coral Way, and I’m riding against traffic, since the bike path is on the north side of the road (which is a four-lane east/west thoroughfare for those unfamiliar with our area), and I break Rule #1 for Biking: always make eye contact with the motorist before crossing in front of them.
I saw what was going to happen before it happened.
As I rolled into the intersection, in front of the Escalade (brand new, it seemed), I got a glimpse of the empty lane the driver now had into which to accelerate. The last thought I had before I needed to react was: “Shit.” The next view I had was of traffic stopping and avoiding my head on the pavement as I lay on Coral Way, facing up.
Luckily I didn’t lose consciousness, and luckily I didn’t really hit the pavement that hard.
The driver of the Escalade was shaken up. And there was a plainclothes federal agent behind him who stopped and turned her lights on.
I got lucky. That much is for sure.
But please, if you happen to be driving, even though I promise to be more careful, make sure you look BOTH ways before entering traffic.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/6-year-old-alone-in-hot-air-balloon-over-colorado/?hp&emc=na
I got my blog updated to the latest-greatest WordPress, about two weeks after I started. I had to put get into the database and manually edit a setting for a plug-in.
I wonder why it is that the last few times I’ve updated, after I’ve reenabled plug-ins, a different plug in defects…maybe it works that way on purpose…
Why am I asking you?
That was a joke quote I pulled from Blazing Saddles – one of my favorite movies of all time.
This is the report from my Cable Modem connection which I purchase from Comcast Cable…
I’ve been digging iPhone’s 3.0 OS for about a month now. As a developer (yes, I paid) I get to “develop” applications for my iPhone and even have a chance to sell them if I want to. No, I haven’t done that yet.
A feature I thought I’d NEVER use came quite in handy today: “Where’s my iPhone”. Even though the phone was in my house (which I knew) I was able to start it pinging for two minutes so I could actually find the darned thing. Even though it was set on “silent” mode, it pinged until I found it.
If you have an iPhone and have not upgraded to 3.0, I highly recommend it. The minor aggravation of not having a phone for 10 minutes is worth the copy/cut/paste function, alone.
Why is k. d. lang’s voice so perfect? Same question, but directed to Roy Orbison – why is his voice so perfect.
I might as well ask why the sky is blue, the grass is green, the sun yellow; although, there are quite solid scientific explanations for those.
It sounds kinky, but I call pretty much any meeting that I’m involved in, a “beating.” While some meetings are necessary, the vast majority are a TWOT (total waste of time) which would be better served by memo.
Not that I have anything better to do during those times; but, come on… if the point of a meeting is to share status on projects, it would be better to set up a website about the project where the person running the project can update the website, and everyone can read the updates.
Now, meetings where we come together to make decisions, meetings where we come together to get actual work done – these meetings are what I would consider to be necessary meetings.
If it offends you that I call meetings “beatings,” I’m sorry. But not that sorry. 
We have an ongoing problem with our oldest child, Donovan. He won’t eat what foods are put in front of him. In fact almost every mealtime is a struggle.
We have tried to feed him what he wants, but all he wants is junk food. Today he wouldn’t eat the oatmeal that has apples, cinnamon, and brown sugar. And now he is standing looking over my shoulder reading this as I type.
Does any one out there have any suggestions to get my reticent eater to actually eat?
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