Things I’m Grateful For on Thursday 21 August
Today’s list of things to be grateful for or appreciate:
- Getting a really good night’s sleep. I think I was ready for it last night, and I managed to get up 15 minutes before the final alarm, with no snoozing.
- More weird dreams. Dancing spiders.
- My lovely, warm, comfortable bed.
- I had a really good time at J’s mom’s last night. We had a curry, and chatted about anything and everything - babies, Spain, Paganism, manic depression, fleeing the country, etc.
- I’m not in work until 1PM.
- I’ve created myself a couple of jobs to do, to keep busy.
- I have another long weekend coming up - I’m off Sat, Sun and Mon because it’s a bank holiday. I might do some more work on the blog then.
- Playing with Wenna this morning. She was excited about going for a walk, which is always funny. Lots of jumping about, and howling, and throwing toys about.
- Physical healing. It seems that the good feelings I had over the weekend have helped clear up my excema.
- My readers and commentators. Reading your comments brings a glow to my day.
- Mom has swapped me some change for the parking meter.
- Nice dry weather. We’ve had a sufficiency of rain just recently, thank you very much.
- My reliable, cheap car. 22 years old and still going strong.
- A lovely hot shower. I love the endorphin rush I get.
- Tasty breakfast cereals.
- Hot coffee. I especially love Palenque coffee, from CaféDirect.
- I think I may have discovered a way to restrict access to one of my blogs by IP address. This blog is, always has been, and always will be, private, and current plugins don’t really address the issue all that well. Being able to limit access to my IP address only will be very useful. See #33 below.
- Also finding a way to hide/remove all feeds from a Wordpress blog.
- Some sleuthing has turned up a useful plugin that I’d like to add to the blog. It’s called Comment Quicktags, and it’ll enable commentators to use HTML quickly and easily.
- I have a job interview next Tuesday!
- A of A travelling Spouse has pointed me at a very interesting personality test today.
- Being able to prepare my own food to take to work with me.
- I’ve been paid back by another $3 on Kiva.org. I’m up to $549 now.
- Safe driving.
- Work went well. I had a couple of customers that made me laugh.
- Tasty food to eat on my break.
- I caught up with a few jobs that needed doing around the front end.
- More free Revels, and some free bits and bobs.
- I avoided spending any money all day.
- Just one more day before a three day weekend.
- Seeing bright sunshine after rain. Everything seemed much more vibrant and alive.
- I got another pre-sell today. And another round of applause from my colleagues.
- I might be able to get some free films for my new camera. H found 4 boxes of 3 today, that are a year out of date. They’ll do for me to practice on, providing I can have them.
- A tasty evening meal.
- I’ve had a problem getting the IP based block on my other blog working, because the host I’m with, NearlyFreeSpeech, have an unusual setup. So, instead of an IP block, it’s based on a password, that only I know. I followed the instructions here, and with the help of my hosts FAQ, managed to get it set up in about 2 minutes. And it works flawlessly. Now my private blogs can be private, without fear of anyone stumbling across them.
- My web host. I signed up with them when I did the transfer (remember when I stopped posting, and then you suddenly got a weeks worth of posts in one day a while back?), and added $20 to my account. Despite buying a new domain name through them, I still have nearly $10 in my account. They are fantastically cheap, and a very good service to boot. There’s not much hand holding, but if you need some technical support, then these guys know exactly what they’re doing.
Things I’ve laughed at today:
- This lolcat. And this one. This one too. And also this one.
- This and this from Not Always Right.
- Kelley.
Things I want to manifest:
- A quick, simple, pleasant day at work. MANIFESTED.
- 4x Bach Flowers.
Things I’ve done for others:
- Served a lot of customers in a pleasant and efficient manner.







