I have much for which I am thankful. I am thankful for my wife and family (and thankful that my wife was willing to wait so long).

I am thankful for a very short period of unemployment, and, of course, looking forward to proving that I deserve the job I was offered last week. I feel blessed to have found the job as quickly as I did--it seems to be the exception and not the rule right now.

I am thankful for friends--the blogging kind and otherwise--who have enriched my life over this last year.

There is a lot to worry about in a bigger sense, but this is the kind of day where I’m going to focus on the positives while desperately fighting off the tryptophan coma that’s heading my way. Thanks, all, for the part that you’ve played in my life this year.