Today I am grateful for...

• Being alive. It suddenly occurred to me last night that I ought to be grateful for that. I guess? It's better than the alternative, anyway.
• Along those lines, N95 and KN95 masks. Home Depot has a good selection ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• My TMJ not getting (much) worse, and not being (very) painful.
• Heating pads.
• Being able to coerce WordPress into doing a some of what I need it to do. (But by no means all; WordPress is very cat-like, and only obeys when it feels like it.)
• The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) for when I ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Finally making it back to Seattle after having been snowbound much of last week.
• Reconnecting with my bite guard, which I'd left behind the last time I went up to Whidbey. NO thanks to my right temporomandibular joint.
• My debugging skills not having lapsed too much during my retirement ( Read more... )

Today I am, apparently, snowed in on Whidbey Island. Nevertheless I am grateful for...

• Propane and power. (At least so far.)
• Things to keep busy with. (Of course, the dead-tree books I was in the middle of reading are in Seattle.)
• Rapid, at-home COVID-19 testing. (When you can get it. I did manage this time.)
• A ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• My kids, E and R, and their respective SOs.
• My sister-of-choice N.
• LWN.net - Linux Weekly News. I've been ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Unexpected gifts from my family of choice, and the ability to reciprocate (sometimes on short notice).
• Coincidences of location that greatly simply a trip with two destinations.
• Having man-handled a heavy box without noticeably damaging myself.
• Off-the-shelf diclofenac gel and electric heating ( Read more... )

I'm not too good at rating things, but I think it's safe for me to say that this past year was even worse than the previous one, which I called pretty awful last Thanksgiving.
Looking back,...
ls ../2020/12/*thankf* ../2021/*/*thankf* | wc -l 45
... so I missed seven weeks, which is pretty poor compared to three last year ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Git, both for keeping track of my writing and giving me something to write about. Also, $editor.
• Troubleshooting skills. Does treating customer service reps as rubber duckies count? It should. (My CPAP wasn't broken; the tube was ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Our housekeepers.
• A catbox cover that doubles as a nightstand -- N's household had an extra.
• Naproxen Sodium (see above).
• Things to write about. (Even if I often don't... you know... actually write.)
• Tiktaalik roseae. Don't miss the music video.

Today I am grateful for...

• Finding a pharmacy that took walk-ins after somhow having failed to click submit on Walgreen's vaccine appointment form (which, by the way, sucks), and getting a Moderna booster shot. Not so grateful for the side-effects, but the immunity is well worth the price.
• N, who brought me breakfast ( Read more... )