Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am grateful for...

• The JWST, bringing us incredible views of the sky in infrared. I was just watching Night Sky News February 2024, and thinking that my father, whose specialty was infrared spectroscopy, would have loved it.
• My friend Ted Kaehler, for introducing me to the Smalltalk programming language when we were roommates at Stanford, and for many long, fascinating conversations. Including this morning, when he realized while taking his girlfriend's dog to the vet that he was only a block away from our house.
• Getting back into walking, which I have neglected for way too long. It's almost the only form of exercise I get on a regular basis, and the only form I actually enjoy. (The PT exercises that I do semi-regularly to strengthen my back, legs, and (more recently) pelvic floor are not particularly aerobic, and they're also incredibly boring.)
• Friendship. NO thanks for having lost touch with so many friends -- that used to be Colleen's specialty.
• Having lived on Whidbey Island -- it's a beautiful place, and so was our house there, and I'll always miss it.