Keep Stuffing That Turkey, Baby

As we sit down to an evening family Thanksgiving dinner in Prague (some of us had to work today), chicken instead of turkey, I realize that we are actually starting at the same time as many people in the U.S., at least a few of the early birds on the East coast.

This is what I’m thankful for

I am thankful that it’s not a big deal here,(actually, it’s not a deal here at all but my wife likes celebrating American holidays), and I’m thankful we had chicken instead of turkey because I really can’t see why everybody  gets so excited over turkey – to me, it tastes like dried up old chicken.

I’m thankful we live in the modern world, where the internet puts all of the knowledge known to mankind at your fingertips and mobile phones mean nobody ever has to wait a half an hour to realize they’ve been stood up any more and I can write this blog which may not be read by many but it’s a bigger audience than I’ve ever had before in my life and I’m thankful for facebook, which is putting  me back into contact with lots of people who I’ve drifted out of contact with over the years and that’s amazing because that’s an option that wasn’t open to previous generations, usually when you drifted out of contact, and people changed addresses and moved on to the next stage of their life, and the next, you just stayed out of contact and that was that.  I’m also thankful to facebook because people post cool pictures like the one above, which I tried to copy directly from facebook but couldn’t so  I found it on google images and I’m thankful that there is now, and always has been, more than one way to skin a rabbit, more than one way into the woods.

I’m thankful that the good herb pictured in aforesaid picture exists, grows naturally  almost everywhere on the planet, and has been honed through the miracle of modern plant breeding to the stunningly powerful level it currently enjoys, and I’m thankful that  the laws of nature, still and for the foreseeable future (although we’d better be careful) still trump the bullshit laws of mankind.

And family and friends  and health and yadda, yadda, yadda.

Have a happy Thanksgiving, everybody.  I hope yours is as good as mine.