After several days of heavy rains, the skies cleared. When my morning drive to work looks like this:

It does make a fellow appreciative of all he has:

• My three kids are wonderful young people with the potential to change their worlds
• My dogs love me for the person they think I am
• I get to laugh at myself at least once an hour every day. Often someone else is laughing too.
• I have lived in some terrific places, met interesting people and been fortunate to never go without.
• Hockey, baseball and football overlap enough so there is always something on TV to waste my time.
• The music I like is still considered "Classic Rock" and not yet relegated to "Easy Listening".
• While I rarely understand my job, I work with some very smart people who explain it to me slowly using very small words.
• I am still mobile enough to exercise sufficiently to have that second beer.
• My Bloggy friends think I am interesting enough to comment regularly.

Enough sap. Back to the satire tomorrow.