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cellioI am thankful for many things, including:
Family, most especially a loving husband, parents who are happily married and pretty healthy, and the cats.
A wonderful rabbi who teaches me, encourages me, shares with me, and gives me special opportunities not available to others.
A job where I am able to do what I'm good at and where I'm apparently well-respected by people above me (and at least some peers). There are certainly challenges when a small company is bought by a mega-corp, but we have also retained some of what made it good to be at that small company.
A passion, not related to my technical career, that challenges me, excites me, sometimes scares me, and forces me to really think and evaluate -- and that brings rewards for its own sake.
The opportunities available to me through LiveJournal: a place to share ideas and interact with interesting people I might not have met otherwise. Writing is important to me; the sheer act of writing something down helps me analyze it. I don't need LJ to write, but I find that having an interactive audience pushes me to write.
Comfort++ -- health (physical, mental, spiritual), financial grounding, and the ability to spend time doing things I enjoy.
Family, most especially a loving husband, parents who are happily married and pretty healthy, and the cats.
A wonderful rabbi who teaches me, encourages me, shares with me, and gives me special opportunities not available to others.
A job where I am able to do what I'm good at and where I'm apparently well-respected by people above me (and at least some peers). There are certainly challenges when a small company is bought by a mega-corp, but we have also retained some of what made it good to be at that small company.
A passion, not related to my technical career, that challenges me, excites me, sometimes scares me, and forces me to really think and evaluate -- and that brings rewards for its own sake.
The opportunities available to me through LiveJournal: a place to share ideas and interact with interesting people I might not have met otherwise. Writing is important to me; the sheer act of writing something down helps me analyze it. I don't need LJ to write, but I find that having an interactive audience pushes me to write.
Comfort++ -- health (physical, mental, spiritual), financial grounding, and the ability to spend time doing things I enjoy.