Gratitude, Part 18 (Dec. 14-20, 2013)

  1. Quickly receiving articles through interlibrary loan

  2. Homemade salmon fish sticks

  3. My wife making homemade coleslaw for me

  4. Helping my wife cook kale pesto pasta

  5. Christmas lights in our window

  6. Successfully removing old light fixtures from basement

  7. Warm weather to melt ice and snow off the roads

  8. Successfully getting the PAW script running

  9. My knowledge of FORTRAN coming in handy for the first time in 10 years

  10. Finding the book "Downton Tabby" at the library

  11. Generous in-laws

  12. Tempura at Fuji

  13. Sushi at Fuji

  14. Finishing the first draft of the syllabus for the class I will teach next semester

  15. Unexpected lunch with colleagues (Dec. 16, 2013)

  16. Finding a Japan travel book at the library

  17. Walking to library with my wife

  18. Helping a collaborator by commenting on his presentation

  19. Another professor willing to take over my class while I am in Japan

  20. Reading a chapter in a book that helped me to reframe the goals for my class

  21. Getting independent study sections set up so that students who wish to take my class for 3 credits instead of 2 can do so

  22. Printing fliers to advertise the class

  23. Graduate student installing PAW on our computer cluster

  24. Anniversary card from my sister

  25. Good meeting with my graduate student (Dec. 16, 2013)

  26. Interesting presentation at the Lunch-n-Learn seminar (Dec. 19, 2013)

  27. Good lunch at the Lunch-n-Learn seminar

  28. Able to attend my first Masters thesis defenses at School of Mines (Dec. 20, 2013)

  29. Our friends were able to come to small group despite bad weather (Dec. 19, 2013)

  30. The delicious results of my wife making a new bread recipe 

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