Thank Godden It's Friday

Five reasons to be thankful for today:

1) featherynscale got up and made biscuits and gravy this morning before I had to go to work. kittenpants even got up for B&G, and then the two of them promptly went back to sleep under the Comforter of Marshmallow Fluff (+4). MMmmmmmm, biscuits & gravy. I love my family.

2) We set out our first bin of curb-side recycling today. Yes, our area of the city started on Sept. 1st, but we lost recycled the coupon, so we had to go get the bin later. Now with 80% less trips to the recycling drop-off (glass, toner, foil, etc isn't picked up curbside).

3) Doing a quick turn around the block this morning before work, I spotted ~45 recycling bins on other people's curbs in our small subdivision, which works out to about 40-50% participation. They were expecting about 25% reduction in trash overall... so that's good, even for our little pseudo-suburb.

4) Next Monday I get to do my one-year performance evaluation. That means I've been an official City employee (non-contract) for just under a year! Thankfully, my slackitude seems to have cleared itself up finally, although I'm still manic as hell this month. Got to sleep about 3-something last night, 2-something the night before that, 1:30 or so the couple of nights before that...

5) Did I mention it's Friday? That means Games Night tonight!

::edit:: 4b) I got to learn geocoding today, which should make some of the carpooling and site stuff for Gaia Community a little easier. I think I instinctively but not explicitly knew that was what MapQuest uses, it's just good to verify. Also, I should remember this site: http://geocoder.us/