September 13, 2018

I am grateful the first ever defrosting needed for my seriously elderly refrigerator seemed to go well.

Planning to replace it fairly soon, but couldn't ignore the serious amount of ice building up within the refrigerator compartment.

September 12, 2018

Very grateful to have completed a training course that was a strong deep dive into the workings of the main application I use for my job every work day. It's called ActiveBatch, which is an enterprise processing automation and scheduling tool. I've been aware it is very powerful, but that I was barely scraping what it can do.

As noted, the training was a deep dive into it, and even with this the vendor labels my knowledge now at intermediate level! Gads.

That said I am glad the original plan for the training (live instructor-led) was canceled due to insufficient interest for the planned date. So I switched to their on-demand version, which is all prerecorded videos. Even spreading those out over three days, including today, was quite stressful. (It's led to muscle strain headaches today and yesterday.) So I don't want to think about how the live instructor-led training would have gone, as that is intended to all be done in one day. /shudders/

September 11, 2018

Very, very grateful to have received by download the e-book of _State Tectonics_, the conclusion of author Malka Older's Centenal Cycle. (The proceeding novels were _Infomocracy_ and _Null States_.)

Older's central concept, micro-democracy, is a true breath of fresh air, especially in the current states of political chaos that are occurring. I am not going to try to explain or describe micro-democracy, and will instead point to the author's own discussion: https://www.tor.com/2016/11/08/heading-towards-infomocracy.

Also looking forward to the continuing characters, especially the highly kickass Mishima, and Ken and Roz, among others.

September 10, 2018

I am grateful that on this first day of a week long vacation, I am already feeling somewhat more energetic then I have for many weeks.

September 9, 2018 (Gratefulness post 2)

I was grateful earlier today when I went grocery shopping & I found a parking that space that put the car fully in shade from a tree. Nice!

September 9, 2018

I'm grateful an angry condo neighbor in the middle of the night shouted for only 2 or 3 minutes at most & didn't get any response at all, so I was right back to sleep.

Way too often I have heard full blown arguments start with one person going on in such a manner, and someone with them decides to respond in kind. (Or two people shouting at each other simultaneously.) So it was a relief there was just the one short rant this time.

September 8, 2018

I don't want to get into details, but it's been a very uninspiring day.

On the other hand, I can always say I am grateful for nice weather, such as we have had today.