Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am grateful for...

• Colleen, and her willingness to understand and take ownership of some difficult problems and going after them with determination and courage, and for finally getting back into the kitchen! Go Rocket-Snail!
• Naomi, my sister-of-choice. Sometimes it takes a poet to find the perfect metaphor that transforms a problem from impossibly inexplicable to well-understood and solvable.
• Marty, my sister-of-choice-in-law, and her Mad Tetris Skillz, putting paid to no less than two wishlist items.
• My Younger Daughter, for another week of getting up in time for school without my having to go upstairs to wake her.
• $BOSS, for being able to explain both to me and to his boss that the problem I was trying to solve for a demo simply wasn't solvable with the amount of bandwidth available.
• (Coworker) Mike Gormish, for writing and delivering the paper that finally lets me talk a little about what I've been working on for the last couple of years.

Comments

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great week! Go $boss!

[mdlbear]

It's been ok so far, though rather rough going in places.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Hard things that work out well are rough right before the end, that's why in fiction they call it "the climax". Hopefully next week will give you a bit of a "denouement" so you can ease into your new reality.

Which is, of course, a new story which will have rough patches of its own, but still, hope you can celebrate this good stuff for a while.