It isn’t too often that I consider all that I have to be thankful for. Taking cue from today’s holiday and also a good friend’s new tradition, I’m going to make a list. Feel free to add as you see fit.

• Being Alive
• Literacy
• Knowing that there will always be something new to learn
• Being put in my place by someone far more knowledgeable on a subject than myself.
• Self-Sufficiency (mostly)
• The prospect of eventually being self-sufficient
• Getting paid for being nerdy
• People who apprecieate my nerditude
• Music
• Good Music
• Poetic Lyrics
• Poetry
• Art(s)
• Red
• Coffee
• Black Friday, and knowing that I will be sitting comfortably at home not enduring the crowds
• Cooking
• Eating
• The Internet
• Internet Memes
• del.icio.us
• Buzzwords such as “Web 2.0″ and “Blogosphere”
• Saturday afternoon naps
• Living close to the Appalachian Mountains
• The ease of being able to say “I climbed a mountain today” that my proximity to said mountains affords
• Snow
• Winter
• Winter Sports
• Door Prizes
• Cat Paws
• Unordered lists that oscillate from general to specific
• The div HTML tag
• The World Wide Web Consortium
• CSS
• Acronyms
• Turkeys and ToFurkeys
• World Record Attemps on Thanksgiving Day morning shows
• The name “Aloisius”
• Sunny television personalities
• Quirkiness
• Pause
• Save
• $240 worth of puddin’
• Thankful lists

I will be adding more to this list later, but for now I have to help prepare Thanksgiving dinner.

Oh yes, I almost forgot- Happy Thanksgiving!

—d

EDIT: 11/24

• 56k Internet connections. Or should I say, perspective- tune in to future posts for the full story!
• Pre-emptive advertising
• Gary Benchley, Rock Star If you know who Cat Power and Jan Tschichold are (or don’t), read this book.