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 The last day of the Thanksgiving holiday (Sunday) things are quiet and the refrigerator is full of leftovers. The Christmas decorations are being brought down from the attic and set up around the house.  I am grateful my wife has 10 boxes of decorations and not 11. Last day last Thanksgiving post.  I think back on the 2 previous posts and what it means to me.  How I feel thankful.  What it means to me to be thankful.  What are the benefits of being thankful.  Isn't that it, the benefit, what do I get out of it.  Probably not the best way to look at it.  Would I be more grateful if I had a couple million in the bank?  I do realize I have a lot to be thankful for.  I did lose my job during the pandemic.  I was able to get another one just as my severance ran out.  We do have an emergency fund for another income disruption.  I do hope I don't need it. There seems to be quite a lot of research on the benefits of gratitud...

 So here are some of the movie lines that I really like.  I cannot say why I just like them I just do.  I am not sure if the literary community would consider them masterpieces.  Whether it is a dialog or a 3 word sentence they just seem to fit.  I will watch a movie just to get to these lines.  Thankful to the Authors.  Here they are: Empire Strikes Back: Darth Vader No, I am your Father. Die Hard : Deputy police chief Dwayne T Robinson after the Nakatome building blows up and the helicopter crashes: "Were going to need some more FBI guys, I guess" Raiders of the lost Ark; Indiana and Marcus talking to the Government agents Indiana: The Ark of the Covenant, the chest that the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments. Major Eaton: What, you mean THE Ten Commandments? Indiana: Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Ararat and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing... Indiana: Didn'...

What am I be thankful for?  It is an easy question to ask but may be difficult to answer. When I look through Facebook posts or watch little vignettes of stars on TV (we are watching the Macy's parade). I see a plethora of the usual things.  I am thankful for the same things, family, friends top the list.  In the end it is friends and family are all we need.  Look just below any of my accomplishments and you will see the support of friends and family.  Maybe I should be thankful that friends and family have been far more of a joy in my life than a source of pain and hardship.  It is a hard reality that some people in this world count family as the main source of pain and hardship in their life.  Thankfully I am not among them. Friends, family and health are things to be thankful for but they are easily taken for granted as well.  They surround our life everyday.  With the current pandemic my wife and I are together almost 24X7.  I am def...

I write this mostly to feel better.  Somehow collecting and organizing my thoughts on a subject seems to make me feel better.  Not great but certainly better.  Maybe it is a distraction, maybe a release it could be that it helps me make sense of the a crazy world. We have so many factors to consider when doing what used to be a simple task. Going out for a bite used to be a simple task.  What do my wife and want and where to get it.  After several what do want, I don't know what do you want?  Then the inevitable "no I don't want that" ( I thought you said you didn't care)k.  Ok so it's not that simple lol.  Eventually we would end up somewhere ordering a meal.  Now fast forward to 2020 and now not only deciding what but the where decision is more complicated.  Is it open now?  Are they set up for social distancing?  Do they have outside dining?  Even when we get there does it look safe?  Is it too crowded?  We ma...

 Gee November is almost half over and It seems like nothing has changed.  Or at least nothing seems to have changed for the better.  Daily there are more covid cases, more hospitalizations and yes more deaths.  Death rates do seem to be less.  Treatments and therapies are improving. Watching the news and the reported 100,000 new cases nation wide and over 1000 new cases in Dallas county I started to wonder where are all these people getting the virus.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason.  Big and small gatherings where are these people getting it from?  Are they getting it from a work place? It is difficult to get a grasp on the numbers but about 50% of the workforce is remote now.  The group I work with is 100% remote.  In my small circle of friends only a very few have had the virus and thankfully no deaths.  Lately it has been college age sons and daughters of our friends that have reported infections.  The infection seems...