Giving Thanks :)

[the_gneech]

Thanks to: my mom and dad, without whom I would have had to incarnate some other way. ;)

Thanks to: my brother, for the bikes, and my sister, for generally being cool. :)

Thanks to: my late uncle Kenny, for helping to cultivate my sense of the absurd.

Thanks to: my friends, new and old, including the Travelers of Kormath, the Richmond gaming group, the Dirt Den Inn crew, the cool people from alt.lifestyle.furry, and furries all over the country and the world.

Thanks to: Laurie, who is (in case I haven't mentioned it lately) a wonderful person. :)

Thanks to: Laurie's parents, without whom there wouldn't be any Laurie to be thankful for.

Thanks to: my readers, who constantly astound me with their interest, enthusiam, and support.

Thanks to: Vince, for being a good friend, and to Spiked Punch and T'Chall for buying me Vince's artwork. ;)

Thanks to: Kerry, for being the Merchandise Maven and doing such a bang-up job of it, as well as computer supplier, searcher extraordinaire, and general go-to-gal for anything I need.

Thanks to: Tex, Carl, Walt, the other Walt, Gary, Charles, the other Charles, Chuck, Berke, Fritz, Bill, Eric, Mark, Don, Herbie, Terrie, and many many others for inspiration.

Thanks to: Western Civilization, for creating the English language.

Thanks to: P.G. Wodehouse, Rex Stout, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Lieber, Lemony Snicket, Douglas Adams, William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harper Lee, Agatha Christie, Louis L'Amour, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Chris Roberts, and lots of others for inspiration and ideas.

Thanks to: E. Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, and various others, for creating Dungeons and Dragons and, by extension, role-playing games.

Thanks to: England, Scotland, and Ireland for giving me a heritage.

Thanks to: the U.S.A., for giving me another heritage and being my home and a place I actually love to be, even if I complain about it quite a bit.

Thanks to: China, for creating Kung Fu, Taoism, and a lot of deep thinking.

Thanks to: Japan, for being a fascinating place that often provides me inspiration and entertainment -- oh, and also for my friend Vince, indirectly.

Thanks to: all the plants and animals that have died to keep me alive. You'll get your turn soon enough, guys. ;)

Thanks to: Steve Chapin, for creating LifeMinders, which paid off my debts.

Thanks to: Starbucks, for giving me a job when I needed one in order to stay afloat.

Thanks to: Circle Solutions, Inc., for giving me a job that was better than Starbucks, and for all the Cold Fusion training.

Thanks to: Dan for being a cool boss.

And finally, thanks to: the inpenetrable mystery of existence, whether it's God, the Tao, or a bunch of random chemical reactions. Don't know, don't care (well I do care, but it's not germaine to the post at hand). Point is, I love existing and being alive, so if there's some cosmic power out there to be thanked, I thank you. :) But would you mind terribly communicating directly with me some way I could recognize? I've got some stuff I'd like to hash out with you.

-The Gneech

PS: Thank you for reading this. :)

Comments

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[kailucidricwolf.livejournal.com]

Thank you for being my Bro these past 2-3 years.
if it wernt for you, an a few others, i'd have gone further into madness. ^.^

oh, an your art is cool to. hehe

^~Kai

Re: ^.^

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

-The Gneech

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm just zis guy, y'know? :)

-TG

[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

Your welcome! :) -Frisk *who also thanks you, loads and loads and loads*

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well you're welcome too, bignose! ;)

-TG

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Thank You, Boss!

Yer friend,

Scott

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Hey, that reminds me: got my hands on a copy of Orange Alert today, finally. You'll be happy to know that Tiffarella came out pretty a lot better than I was afraid of!

-TG

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

YAY! :D

Scott (I can be succinct when that's all there is to say) Kellogg

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

Im British, we dont give thanks, we're just snotty! :P

Anyway yeah what about thanking your UK Lifestyle Contact? ;)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I already thanked England generally, don't get greedy. ;)

-The Gneech