Well, I'm having one rotten week, the sort of week that if you plan a party to give yourself something to look forward to, you get a nasty email from a friend saying you deliberately planned it on a day HE was giving a party... sigh...

However, I am alive, not starving and I don't live in Afghanistan or NYC or work in the travel biz, so in the spirit of doing something this week that shows my gratitude I decided to start a Thanksgiving thread.

[Edited to add: I mean "I am grateful I didn't lose loved ones on Sept 11 - NOT that I don't like NYC"... sigh... it really is that kind of week - I tried to delete this whole post, because I'm not making myself clear, but it won't let me - I also have NOTHING against anyone in the travel biz - my point is that I thought I should stop whining about my own troubles when a lot of people have a lot bigger ones... death, starvation, layoffs etc... and I wanted to put something positive back into the universe]

Below are MY FT'ers to be thankful for - add yours, please (but please keep all disagreements to some flamewar in OMNI, okay??? I want ONE thread with only positive karma)

renila's FT'ers to be thankful for:
(in no particular order)


Fewmiles - because "see Fewmiles' excellent site" is the most often used phrase in the AA forum

Paul Palmer - for being so thoughtful, polite and remembering to follow up on things he has promised to look into... Paul, I've never met you but you come across in print as being a genuinely kind and caring man

Taipei - for being such a generous and gracious host in, of course, Taipei (although he lives near SNA :-)

peteropny - for bring us all "out" in the open

doc - for not prescribing himself anti-obsessive/compulsive posting disorder medication and for spending SO much time giving us news hot off the presses

Shareholder - I don't always agree with him, but I always find his posts well reasoned and he is (gasp) willing to admit his mistakes on occasion - a commodity sometimes in short supply on FT

All my TPE run buddies for being such a great intro to mileage running (have caught the fever)

And of course, Randy Petersen, for enabling us to hang out here.

[This message has been edited by renila (edited 11-07-2001).]