Early riser

For Wednesday, 20-December-2006, five success, achievements or positives I
had were:

1) Got to work by 07:30.
2) Resolved an issue with MATLAB not allowing me to capture large image
sizes into an AVI movie.
3) Had a nice long bath.
4) Brushed and flossed my teeth.
5) Caught up a little bit on my blog reading.

Richard

Out in the wash

For Tuesday, 19-December-2006, five successes, achievements, or positives in
my life were:

1) I resumed posting to this blog again
2) I was able to generate movies using MATLAB code
3) Picked up a very beautiful gingerbread house at a silent auction at work.
It is a truly magnificent work of art. It has real windows! (made of melted
sugar).
4) Spoke with my kids and wife.
5) Did the laundry.

Richard

Finally

Five successes, achievements, or positive things for Monday,
18-December-2006 were:

1) drove without incident from Montreal to Ottawa
2) received a Christmas card from a dear friend
3) called and spoke with a friend for over 2 hours
4) managed to get some results suitable for analysis
5) "discovered" an e-mail from a friend I had somehow managed to overlook.

Richard

Thoroughly Thursday

For 07-December-2006, five successes, achievements, or positives I had were:

1) Prepared all my own meals
2) Washed all my bedding
3) Had a nice long, hot bath
4) Spoke with my kids.
5) Spoke wiht my wife.

Richard

Positive Flow

For Wednesday, 06-December-2006, five successes, achievements, or positives
I had that day were:

1) Called and spoke with my kids 3 times (morning before the headed off to
school, when they returned home after school, and in the evening before the
went to bed).
2) Prepared all my meals
3) Resolved a number of memory leaks in software I am working on.
4) Received a second work station at work, so I can run MATLAB simulations
on it without bogging down my normal workstation (workstation is just
corporate speak for "the computer I am chained too").
5) Continue to feel relatively positive and optimistic.

Richard

A lot of talk

For 05-December-2006, five successes, achievements, or positive experiences
I had were:

1) Got up early enough to speak with my kids (by phone) in the morning
before they headed off to school.
2) Spoke with my kids (by phone) in the evening.
3) Spoke with my wife three times by phone (in addition to exchanging a
number of e-mails)
4) Prepared my own lunch.
5) Prepared my own dinner.

Richard

The mundane

For Monday, 04-December-2006, five successes, achievements or positive
experiences were:

1) Spoke with my son last night (he is in Montreal, I am in Ottawa)
2) Spoke with my daughter last night (same deal as my son)
3) Spoke with my wife last night (yep, she is in Montreal too)
4) Fixed a performance bottleneck that resulted in improving throughput
performance in some software I am working on by better than an order of
magnitude (i.e. it is more than 10 times faster)
5) Tied my shoes

Richard

Oh my darling Clementine

For 03-December-2006, five successes, achievements, or positive experiences I had were:

1) I saw my mother. She looks very well, with a head of graying curly hair (something I have never seen before, she says I stole her curls when I was born). She had good colour and tone and does not look at all like a person who is dying of cancer (non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, large diffuse B-Cell).

2) Introduced my parents to a wonderful Indian restaurant in Montreal - the Maharaja.

3) Made the trip back to Ottawa safely.

4) Bought a 5lb box of clementines as my fresh fruit for the week (I also bought a variety of pears).

5) Played checkers and tic-tac-toe with my daughter.

Richard

Active day

For Saturday 02-December-2006, five of my successes, achievements or positive experiences were:

1) decorated the cake we baked yesterday.

2) blogged a new entry on my recipe a day blog (first since 10-March-2006).

3) Bought a new coat.

4) Caught up on my blog reading.

5) Vacuumed the house.

Richard

Domestics

For Friday 01-December-2006, my successes, achievements or positive experiences were:

1) Baked a cake with the kids in the evening.

2) Had the day off because I work a compressed work schedule that gives me alternate Fridays off.

3) Read to my son in French ("Le Secret" and "Le Velociraptor").

4) Played "soccer" with my son (just kicking the ball around).

5) The kids ate the fish I prepared for dinner (baked salmon).

Richard

[Update 02-December-2006 @ 22:03 to correct date.]

Home

For Thursday 30-November-2006, my successes, achievements or positive experiences were:

1. Made it safely back to Montreal from Ottawa last night (it was raining pretty heavily and the driving conditions were poor).

2. Kissed my kids when I got home, they were sleeping, but I had promised them I would.

3. Got paid yesterday (regular paychecks are good).

4. Started this blog.

5. Hugged and kissed my wife when I got home and let her know I love her.

Richard

[Updated 02-December-2006 @22:04 to add date and remove advertising snippet netscape mail added to post.]