imaznation

It’s almost Thanksgiving. And there are a lot of things to give thanks to this year. I will now list a few of the many things that I am thankful for, in no particular order at all.

1. Thanks to Will and Alan, for always being there to give me rides and a place to crash when I’m in Austin.
2. Thanks to Diane, for always giving me good advice and keeping me company.
3. Thanks to Josh, for helping me make the move to Seattle all that much easier.
4. Thanks to Ray and Jerry, for inspiring me to become a more creative DJ, and for helping me keep up with the latest music.
5. Thanks to Tap House Grill, for providing buy-one-get-one-free entrées.
6. Thanks to Honda, for making a nice-looking car that gives me 24 MPG when gas prices are $3.25 per gallon.
7. Thanks to IC2, for giving me the opportunity show my skills and shine.
8. Thanks to Facebook, for allowing me to keep track of all my friends, no matter where I go and where they are.
9. Thanks to Apple, for making the iPhone.
10. Thanks to Microsoft, for their generous support of all my purchasing habits.
11. Finally, thanks to all the producers, artists, deejays, bosses, promoters, cooks, servers, flight attendants, distilleries, fishermen, and concierges that work hard every day to make my life easier and more fun.

Once again, I’m flying back to Austin. And once again, it’s to DJ at a club. Sometimes this feels like work. Other times, it feels like the best job in the world.

Too bad the flight is four hours. Would’ve been great if Austin was just an hour away.

I just realized, as I was logging into WordPress, that I totally could’ve wrote something like this. Design a publishing, validation, and compile/build system that is meant to handle thousands of articles authored by hundreds of different people around the globe and put that on a website that is accessed by millions? That’s exactly what I do at work every day.