Three Good Things: 11-29-2006
Published Wed, Nov 29 2006 10:42 PM
Technorati Tags: Food and Drink, Software Development, Cool Stuff
Chili. Gadgets.
We were going to have tacos for dinner tonight. My mother decided she wanted chili. So this afternoon she and my wife went grocery shopping and brought home beans, peppers, onions and spices. We already had the meat. I cooked chili for dinner. A big huge steaming pot of mild chili for the family and a small pot of hot, spicy chili for me. I love chili. I love making it almost as much as I love eating it. One of these days, when I get the recipe perfected I might share it with you all.
While my mother and my wife were out my mother decided to spend some of her money on me. She bought me a new cell phone. There wasn't much wrong with my existing cell phone, but the new one is pretty slick anyway, and I like it a lot. I spent about 45 minutes transferring my contacts list from the old one to the new one. I love fresh gadgetry. And I love my new phone.
It's not an MP3 player or a video phone or anything like that. It's a camera flip-phone. Sure, it's not the latest, hottest techno-gizmo, but I'm not about to pay the service fees that are required for one of those anyway. What it is is small, compact, easy to use, paid for, and it has a much longer battery life than my old phone.
I told you a couple of days ago that my mother loves me. I know better than to equate material things with love, but it was a pretty nice expression of the emotion anyway. And I'm very grateful.
OK. That's two. Thinking of a third one is a challenge. The requirements on one of my recent projects at work just changed. Drastically. At 9:00 PM on the day before the system is supposed to be ready for a client preview. That'll put a damper in your day. Except that I'm confident that with a bit of hard work in the morning I'll be able to make things work. I think I did enough work on the back end that I can accommodate the changes with just a few tweaks, but the schedule's going to be tight.
And, I guess, that's three. You see, I love a challenge. Sometimes it's frustrating when it comes at you this way, but if it was easy, anyone could do it, and it wouldn't be much fun would it?
So there you are. Three good things for today, 11-29-2006. Chili, Gadgets (cell phones), and Challenging work.
Life is good. Now if only I had room for another corn muffin... :)
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