With Thanksgiving in a week, I got to thinking about thinks I am thankful for this year. There are a handful of things I am thankful for every year — among them are my daughter Haley, my girlfriend Michelle, my entire family, and my friends. Those things will always be the most important things life has to offer, and I certainly don’t want to shortchange them. But, there are a handful of things specific to the past year that I am thankful for, and I’d like to highlight those. I’m thankful for:
- The ability to forge friendships (of a sort) with a number of web designers and bloggers who previously only served as inspiration to me. Among them: Mike Davidson, Shaun Inman, Paul Scrivens, Jon Hicks, Dave Shea, Derek Miller, Andrei Herasimchuk, Wilson Miner, and Mike Rundle. There are others, too, and I certainly don’t mean to leave anyone off the list. Special thanks to Mike Davidson for starting the Fantasy Football league, which facilitated a lot of these relationships.
- Work. This year I left my previous job at Washburn University, primarly due to a boss whose evil is rivaled only by Beelzebub himself. It was a scary time, being jobless for a number of months, but some timley freelance work held me over until I snagged my current job at Kansas State University, which has been absoultly great so far. In fact, it all worked out so well that I should probably actually thank afore mentioned princess of darkness for forcing me to move on.
- Basketball season. Baseball and football have been miserable — nothing but dissapointments and not living up to expectations. Of course, my Jayhawks are ranked number #1 this year, which means they’ll probably dissapoint me, too.
I guess those are the main things. I could go on, but those (in addition to the primary ones I mentioned above) are the ones that really come to mind. Quick data analysis would suggest that most of my thanks are for people. So if you’re one of the people — well, thanks. :)
001 // Mike D. // 11.18.2004 // 4:30 PM
Clarification: We are sworn enemies until fantasy football season is over. For you, that should be in a few weeks. :)
002 // Jeff Croft // 11.18.2004 // 4:33 PM
Mike-
I hate you.
003 // Wilson // 11.18.2004 // 7:30 PM
Awww, honey thanks. You shouldn’t have.
004 // Dustin Diaz // 11.18.2004 // 8:45 PM
Thanks to you too Jeff. I’ve been thouroughly entertained by all your posts. You’re on of the few bloggers that I get to read almost everyday because you’re the only one who posts so often.
Keep ‘em coming broseph. Btw, Mike, your blog entires are much, much longer…so that makes up for it ;)
005 // Michelle // 11.19.2004 // 7:05 AM
Ditto :)
006 // Jared // 11.19.2004 // 1:03 PM
And all this time I thought I was the only one who once worked under the managerial Hell of the Princess of Darkness. She must move a lot.
Gratitude seems to be in short supply in the world. I like seeing thankful blogs!
007 // Jon Hicks // 11.19.2004 // 2:23 PM
Thanks Jeff. Likewise! :o)
008 // Mike // 11.20.2004 // 12:29 AM
I love you too man, thanks!
009 // Shaun Inman // 11.22.2004 // 11:54 PM
Yeah, I guess we’re cool—even if you have a dinky ShortStat db. ;D