Thanksgiving stuff

I am thankful...

• for walks in the park on a beautiful November day with shalmestere and the Things


• <arlo>for a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat</arlo>, which we cooked together


• that shalmestere and I, despite countless failures of communication, are still together and still trying to understand one another


• that both shalmestere and I have jobs which
  
  
  
  • we believe in, i.e. the world is better with somebody doing this job than without;
  
  
  • pay a livable wage;
  
  
  • we're reasonably good at; and
  
  
  • we mostly enjoy.
  
  
  
  


• that we can afford pretty much everything we need, and a fair number of things we want


• that among all the centuries I might have been born into, I'm privileged to witness the Information Revolution (and therefore I have easy access to learn about the other centuries too, and email, and LJ, and programming languages, and...)


• that although all four large mammals in the house have minor health issues, we have nothing serious


• for friends and family, however eccentric


• that I live in the US; as much as I kvetch about the way it's being run at the moment, there are many worse places I could be living


• that I live within fifteen minutes' walk of groceries, non-blockbuster movies, doctor, dentist, vet, bike repair, library, barbers, post offices, banks, restaurants, drugstores, public transit that works, and a square mile of forest


• (especially on Thanksgiving evening) for automatic dishwashers