Gratitude – 01/16/2012

Today, I am grateful for:

1. Breakfast sandwiches.  Elizabeth and I, in our ongoing quest for health, well-being, and general non-fatness, have made a concerted effort to reduce our intake of carbs.  Particularly in the form of pasta (which we love) and bread (which we also love).  This carb reduction also envelopes pancakes, waffles, and crepes, so at this point we have pretty much eliminated four of my five favourite breakfasts – the fifth being bacon n’ eggs.  So this morning, when we elected to make breakfast sandwiches which included (gasp) cheese and (apoplexy) English muffins, along with fried eggs and slices of crispy bacon, I came quite close to weeping for the joy of it.

2. Moneyball.  Both Brad and I recently finished reading this book, and feel the world is a better place for its existence.  The book focuses on: 1) baseball; 2) statistics; 3) the story of a person’s quest to find truth in the face of great odds; and 4) a fundamental shift in an industry.  If you like any one of those four, you will likely enjoy the book.  If you like all four of them, you will love it.

3. Little Big Planet 2.  There is a very, very, very small subset of games that Elizabeth is willing to play.  Incredibly small.  In fact, this subset currently consists of precisely one game.  This is that game, and last evening we spent a pleasant hour or so muddling through a few of the early levels together and generally getting in one another’s way.  I maintain that, on her part, this in-way-getting was largely intentional.

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