i'm thankful that though i left the gate to the back yard open after taking out the compost yesterday evening and forgot about it and then later that night we let miso out into the darkness, unaware of this, and she was barking, as she normally does when she wants to come in, and d went to get her and realized that the gate was open and miso was gone and i'm thankful when opened the front door she was still in the front yard and d has been coaching her lately on coming in from the front yard off leash and rather than running away she came in when we called her and we gave her a lot of treats.
i'm thankful that though my insurance company somehow stopped covering prozac, which i have taken consistently for years, i submitted a prior authorization request to my doctor and i'm sure it'll work out. i'm thankful that the insurer's phone system voice triage capabilities were surprisingly good and that i could email my doctor's office about the prior authorization form. i'm thankful that i've been in a stable place for a while and haven't needed to make medication changes or increase the frequency of my doctor visits this year.
i'm thankful the bunch of bananas i got at the grocery store on sunday to slice into my breakfast cereal every morning have stayed green and firm like i like them through the middle of the week, which doesn't always happen.
the queen's gambit, which i feel like doesn't totally hold together but is compelling enough to watch one episode of an evening (sometimes you want that, even if the show that strings you into a binge is more seductive) and the lead actress has something special.
digging into how to write a particular query for our logging software that uses a regex to parse parts of a message out into a variable and the documentation being terrible and spending a long time knowing that it should work but thinking i wasn't going to figure out why it didn't work and then just as i was about to throw in the towel coming to the solution and it working