I'm paid to provide Tier 1 support to two systems and two reporting tools. This morning system A was down, which affected system B and both reporting tools. I contacted the developers two hours before they were scheduled to come to work, and they hopped right on it and got everything resolved within minutes.

They're paid to support us 40 hours a week but in reality, provide 24x7 support. So I am very grateful to them.

I'll add my thanks to Tier 1 support. My son's computer crashed just before Christmas and after 4 weeks of back and forth with Dell I think they've finally solved the problem. Unfortunately most of the problem was on Dell's end but he finally found a tech who was able to figure it all out. His spring semester started last week and he needs his laptop with him for all his classes.

I'm still going to keep my fingers crossed just in case and make a sacrifice to the computer gods too.

I'm grateful for this beautiful day today!
Lu

I'm grateful McCloud is in the kitchen putting my oatmeal and toast together. He spoils me. :)

I'm grateful my DDIL's deployment to Iraq has been rescheduled so now by the time she has to go, my son will be home from Afganistan, and DGD can have one of her parents with her. (we grandparents were to take turns with her, which would have been fine, but at less than 2 there is no one like Mommy or Daddy)

I had a wonderful weekend and I am thankful for that. Also, DS #1 made a surprise visit home yesterday and spent the night. (and cooked for me! He is in culinary school)

I'm grateful that life is good and the sunshine is beautiful, (even though we need rain) and supper's almost done already! Nancy

I grateful for a healthy family, and now I'm off to the gym to try to keep up with them. ; )
Susan

I'm grateful for another beautiful day. My house is all cleaned by my housecleaner, got some running around chores accomplished this morning, so after a nice lunch with DH, we will enjoy an afternoon snooze.

After listening to the weather report for this upcoming weekend, I'm grateful for the snow showers and temps in the high 20's we're getting now. Supposed to get an arctic blast Sat/Sun with temps in low/mid teens as the highs.

(Wonder if I can get Jamie's son to visit and try out his culinary skills on me. LOL)

Shirley

Thanks for so many thoughtful posts today. scottymam, yours especially touched me... I'm grateful for such devotion from your son and DIL.

I'm grateful for the "weekends", 2 days of rest and for myself =o)

I use it to catch up my sleep, with chores, to rest, to do whatever I want or don't want. It's 2 days of "off-schedule time"!!!

LOVE being single too =o)

Today I was grateful that Twinkie and I were together to run errands, take corn to the lease land, etc. We can have a good time together taking off the aluminum cans! (Which we should have done today! LOL)

Grateful for a safe journey yesterday moving daughter's things to storage ready for moving to AZ when she gets settled.

Picked up son, travelled 60 miles, mostly on freeway, to meet daughter. Leaving a few minutes late, had no trouble finding Williams Coffee Pub, arrived about 3 min. late, she (unusually) late, after 15 min. son unable find pay phone, manager agreed to let him phone (AZ - on phone card ... connection to phone card people a local call), I saw daughter walking toward door, scooted to tell son ... caught him after about 5 rings. She has connection via computer that lets her call my landline phone from TO toll-free.

She, having arrived from AZ on Christmas day, had borrowed friend's car, drove about 70 mi. from Whitby, east of TO, left car when she borrowed a friend's van, travelled about 35 miles to her former S O's family's cottage on the river, loaded her stuff, travelled 30 mi. or so to freeway, had lunch, travelled 50 or so mi. to her friend's house in Whitby, put her stuff in basement.

Her friend on holiday, daughter's watching her dog and cats, she'll drive car to airport and leave it parked when she flies to AZ just before weekend, her friend to return next day, pick up car, take it home.

Parking for a week or two near airport expensive (plus kennel for pets) and taking taxi from city E. of TO to airport on NW edge is expensive, too, in addition to kennel care for pets.

Bruce and I drove home 140 mi. or so on freeway, stopping near it in TO for me to pick up jacket and cap forgotten on earlier visit to friend's house during returned missionaries' reunion in Nov.

I expected to leave my car where we met daughter, travel in van ... but only two bucket seats, though I could arrange seat for me between - no seat-belt, so illegal: no dice. So I travelled alone in car - a bit disappointing.

She's soon to be AZ resident - a long way from here.

Still very grateful to have been granted extension on permission to drive, as I'd feared my licence would expire next Sat. ... with some question about whether I'd have licence to drive to take driving test a week or so after (with no driving in meantime).

I'd been thinking earlier that I can live on formerly Uncle's farm as long as I have licence ... and was giving active thought to whether I could stay beyond spring (I have enough food to manage, one way or the other, till then, with occasional forays to town for supplies).

Mainly to buy liquid milk ... frequently.

I'm not enthused about being confined to using reconstituted.

I hope that you all have a remarkable (for worthwhile reasons that also please you) week.

ole joyful