What I'm thankful for

[hudebnik]

shalmestere and I are both still employed and both still healthy. An awful lot of people can't say one or both of those things this year.

Also, shalmestere and I have shared 25 Thanksgivings as a married couple, and are still almost always on speaking terms.

My nation has taken a step back from the cliff of authoritarian kleptocracy and elected as President a person who sees his job as serving the public rather than himself, who will do his homework and read his daily briefings, who will make carefully reasoned decisions based on facts and be boring and normal. After the past four years, especially this one, we could all do with some "boring and normal".

We finally renovated our spare bedroom/office this year, which is good because I'm spending a lot of time there these days (I haven't been to my "workplace" since mid-March). It's both more attractive and more functional than before.