It's 8:30 at night (not that I have to tell you that,) and it's been a long, leisurely, thoroughly (mostly) enjoyable day. I just made myself a hot mug of coffee and thought that I'd sit down here at the table a few minutes. I guess the thing that I'm most thankful for tonight is that I didn't let a lot of dumb stuff weigh me down so much that I couldn't enjoy the good stuff. Wisdom according to the Three Stooges. I've been working on a project which I could normally do in a couple of hours, that's spun almost completely out of control because so many competence-challenged people have interferred. One of the great abilities of life is to be able to "set things aside." I'm not all that great at it, but once in awhile I do manage to keep my focus on all the wonderful things that are happening in my life, while "S**t Happens." If you don't do that, all these great times go slipping away, almost without notice:

"How many good times are taken for granted, and only remembered when they've passed away?"

Today I've been able to set the stoopid stuff aside and enjoy my son and daughter-in law and my wife. I could look around me at our home, and our small deck and back yard and believe that no one is as blessed as I am.

Chalk up one day when the good times were not taken for granted.

And now, back to more serious things... my mug of coffee that is sitting patiently, waiting for me.

Hope you all had a good weekend. Even if for some of us it came on a Tuesday.

Jerry