Eseme's Den

Three days at once again!

Today, I am thankful for the BBC. I do enjoy BBC world on the three nights a week that I am home to see it. Tonight they had a wonderful human interest story, about a woman who just turned 110. She first began to get a birthday card from the queen when she turned 100. Then she got 9 more. One problem - they were all the same card. She has nine lovely identical photos of the queen in a yellow dress. She then wrote Buckingham Palace to complain - she wanted a different card. One of the princes visited her in her nursing home to apologize. And this year she got a card with a new photo. I love this story.

Saturday, I was thankful for books - I watched a neat movie, but it made me cry. So I grabbed a book, and felt better. Yay!

Sunday I was grateful for my friends - I have a lot of far-flung friends and many of them have kept in touch with me in spite of the distance.

I am thankful for Castle. The witty banter is fabulous. I love good banter, and this show has it in spades. Plus, it is a non-depressing crime show, which is a rare thing these days.

Loooooooooong day, lots of driving.

Very thankful for the men and women who serve in the armed forces. One day is not enough.

I even got to see the tail end of a parade, somewhere in the suburbs of Boston, while looking for something else entirely.

Today, I am thankful for Terry Pratchett and his wonderful writing ability.

I am a good hundred pages from the end of his latest book, Unseen Academicals and I am starting to slow down, because it will be over soon and I want to make the book last. He's just such a brilliant writer - he plays with grammar and language in very clever ways, every scene has at least one (if not many more) line of dialogue which makes you smaile or chuckle, and his observations on human nature are spot on.

Terry Pratchett - guilty of literature.

And if you haven't grabbed his latest from your book store or library, run out and do so! Ankh Morpork has its first high fashion supermodel, grapples with the age-old tradition of foote-the-ball, discovers the value of good pie, and, as always, contemplates what it is to be human.

I am thankful for co-workers who call around to all departments when making chocolate chip cookie runs. Mid-afternoon cookies rock.

I am not thankful for snow, however.

I am thankful for the lady at the Farmer's Market with the "Pie Fixes Everything" sign. While I have bought a pie from her and it was wonderful, I tend to buy one chocolate chip and one molasses crinkle cookie.

And it is so very odd to arrive at the market in the dark. It feels different in the dark.

It's that time again. Time to be thankful.

Today I'm thankful that I've had interviews lately, and have another scheduled. Do think good thoughts for me- the most recent interview was for an extremely cool job.

I'm thankful that I got to drive two hours out of my way after the last interview and see two friends of mine, friends that I haven't seen in years.

Talking to one of those friends, who has had some very regrettable experiences with a store-gaming crowd (to the point that she is no longer gaming) has made me thankful for the great community in Rochester. I got to game with people who weren't pissed off if I missed a game because something else in my life came first. I got to game with people who didn't mind if people didn't pay strict attention to every aspect of the game (I was teased as opposed to yelled at for falling asleep at game, and btoblake could be distracted... heck darkvalor played WoW). Having hobbies other than gaming was seen as normal as opposed to evidence that one didn't take gaming "seriously" enough. I've had the good fortune to have a GM who sometimes noticed "Hey, no one's in the mood for this game, lets do something else" and would let before-game conversation carry on if it was interesting.

I have been very fortunate in gaming groups, and I am very thankful for that.