Thanksgiving

Things (and people) that I am grateful for (in random order):

• Lasagna


• Cars


• Firemen


• The Manhattan Project


• The smallpox vaccine


• Orson Scott Card


• The Interstate Highway System


• Abraham Lincoln


• My job


• Airplanes


• Winston Churchill


• The Declaration of Independence


• The Mormon pioneers


• A & W Root Beer


• The original Star Wars trilogy


• Antibiotics


• Good friends


• Eric Frank Russell


• The Armed Forces of the United States of America


• Movable Type


• Chocolate milk


• Pizza


• George Washington


• Moore’s Law


• Ronald Reagan


• Buffy the Vampire Slayer


• Cry, the Beloved Country


• The Indiana Jones trilogy


• The fact that some people in Palm Beach County are unable to understand a butterfly ballot


• Blogs


• My niece and nephews


• The many incarnations of Star Trek


• Jane Austen


• Clive Sinclair


• My condo


• David Weber


• Good teachers I’ve had in school


• Police officers


• Isaac Asimov


• My extended family


• Al Gore taking the lead in the creation of the Internet


• The 1984 BYU football team


• The Constitution of the United States


• The Parents


• My brothers and sisters


• McDonald’s


• The Book of Mormon