Thankful Thursday, Thanksgiving edition

[mdlbear]

So, definitely a day and season for gratitude. I'm going to name names.

• Colleen, and her slowly but surely improving health. Also her optimism, love, and stubborn belief that I'm better than I usually think I am.
• My family-of-birth and family-of-choice. Mom, still going strong and turning 90 next month. My brother Al and his kids and grandkids (who I need to get closer to, but that's another post). My daughters, Kat and Emmy, and Kat's husband Selkit. Sister-of-choice Naomi, her kids, and sister-in-law-of-choice Callie. Sister-of-choice-in-law Marty, and niece-of-choice Kaylee. Decoding the notation for extended relationships is left as an exercise for the reader.
• Friends, too numerous to mention here. If you're reading this, you count.
• Our house, Grand Central Starport, and the crazy bunch of people who come to our parties and Wednesday night open house.
• Conventions. Most especially Baycon, our home convention, and their invitation to Colleen and me to be fan guests this year.
• The filk community, filk cons, and the wonderful people I've been privileged to make music with over the years.
• Tempered Glass, and my music partners Naomi and Callie. Their continuing willingness to put up with me, and to challenge me.
• Computers, and open-source software, especially Linux, audacity, emacs, perl, and make. The wonderful Internet, that lets me stay in touch with friends no matter where they are in the world.
• Moore's law.
• Modern medicine, and the continuing employment that makes it financially feasible. Kaiser, Sameer Awsare, Susan Rothman, Catherine Reed, Renee Faahs, aspirin, citalopram, bifocals, my SAD light,...
• My job; the smart, fun people I work with; the cool products we work on; and an employer, Ricoh, that actually gives a damn about their impact on the environment and the communities around them.
• Coffee, dark chocolate, brown basmati rice, eggs, tofu, fish, bacon, ginger, garlic, blackberries, our rosemary bush, Kyocera and Kershaw knives, our gas stove,...
• Books, far too numerous to mention.