12/12/19

i'm thankful that the main thing i had to implement this week turned out to be less difficult and time consuming than expected rather than more, a circumstance that has been quite rare lately but which is such a relief. i'm thankful that though i don't have anything prepped to work on for my regular pairing with the kind engineer today, that's okay and he won't be upset about it. i'm thankful that i feel like i can get done the things i need to get done.

i'm thankful i had a nice call with s and that k helped me around an annoying impediment to me getting something done.

i'm thankful that my time off request for the holidays was approved and that i'll be off for 8 days starting on the 24th, which is going to be so fucking good.

i'm thankful for when miso digs at a piece of cardboard, scrabbling her front paws across it furiously, which reminds me of our last dog, ginger, and how i would take her to a dune in a park near our apartment in miami beach where she would joyfully do the same thing. i'm thankful that some day we'll take miso to the beach and she can experience that.

i'm thankful for the little spin move miso does when eagerly anticipating some food.

i'm thankful, since i'm used to writing these notes on my ipad but am writing them on a computer this morning because my ipad battery is dead, that by reflex, even when writing this sentence you are reading about the topic, i keep touching the screen with my fingertip to insert the cursor and then realizing that this is a touch screen. i'm thankful to remember in the early smartphone/tablet age the phenomenon of children touching spots in books and magazines and expecting event handlers to kick in and deliver additional content.

i'm thankful for dickinson, even though i am sad that we've almost watched all of the episodes. i'm thankful for the interesting paradox of the purposefully idiosyncratic and atemporal adaptation (the characters speak in contemporary slang and there's contemporary music).i'm thankful for how many different kind of tones and experiences that it can incorporate. i'm thankful for the most recent episode we watched, which was centered around a solar eclipse. 

i'm thankful for d's laughter and that i am pretty good at making her laugh, such as i did reading aloud posts from reddit.

i'm thankful for this pun (https://twitter.com/blainecapatch/status/1204508667661258752)