{"id":181,"date":"2008-11-27T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/11\/27\/things-to-be-thankful-for-so-far-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T13:24:48","slug":"things-to-be-thankful-for-so-far-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"things to be thankful for [so far] in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring politics, the economy, and the world at large, here is my list of what I&#8217;m thankful for [so far] this year:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Family &#8211; I have cousins, aunt, uncles, a grandparent, parents, and a sister all alive and kicking.<\/li>\n<li>Friends &#8211; folks who&#8217;ll go out for a night on the town, or sit around and play board games, or watch a movie, or chat for hours on end, etc, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Work &#8211; what I do is more-or-less fun, pays the bills, and I get to travel; places I&#8217;ve been this year include:\n<ul>\n<li>Manhattan<\/li>\n<li>St Louis<\/li>\n<li>Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Sunnyvale<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Health &#8211; no issues this year.<\/li>\n<li>Death &#8211; this I know is an odd one, but it&#8217;s true. My <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/08\/11\/12-may-1953-to-11-aug-2008-cindy-lee-myers\/\">aunt<\/a> died this year in August. A lot could be said, but the most important things to me are:\n<ul>\n<li>I have 0 &#8211; zip, zilch, nada &#8211; bad memories in nearly 27 years of <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/09\/08\/transcript\/\">knowing her<\/a><\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;ll never again feel pain, discomfort, illness, have to take insulin, etc<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll never have a chance to have a bad memory of her (not that I would&#8217;ve expected one, but now I&#8217;m assured it can&#8217;t happen)<\/li>\n<li>It really makes you refocus on what&#8217;s important: people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Learning &#8211; both what I do for work, and what I do for fun. What I work on is big enough that I can always learn something about it. This year that mostly came in a week-long intensive &#8220;bootcamp&#8221; training session. And I research, investigate, and surf for new ideas, trends, concepts, etc just to try to keep myself occupied and my mind sharp.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching &#8211; at [almost] every customer site I go to, I get to explain to them how the toolset works, and what they can do with it. I&#8217;ve also participated in smaller forums where I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to teach a class, workshop, or tutor folks in something they were decidedly interested in &#8211; which is always better than trying to teach people something they don&#8217;t care about.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure other &#8220;major&#8221; topics could be added. And hundreds or thousands of individual instances. But these are the highlights of 2008, so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring politics, the economy, and the world at large, here is my list of what I&#8217;m thankful for [so far] this year: Family &#8211; I have cousins, aunt, uncles, a grandparent, parents, and a sister all alive and kicking. Friends &#8211; folks who&#8217;ll go out for a night on the town, or sit around and &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=181\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">things to be thankful for [so far] in 2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}