thankful for
1) reaching my daily work goal.
told myself I'm going to finish a certain task,
but got quite stuck sometime in the beginning.
the actual heavy-lifting was done,
and the remaining work was just a front-end visual change,
but the specific design request given was
not normal.
it was like going through a maze,
and as I ventured deeper and deeper into a solution,
I was starting to worry it might reach a dead end.
(I was extending objects
and overriding methods from swing libraries to try to find a solution)
consulted with my manager towards the end of the day
and together reached a simpler solution.
did get out of work late,
but the goal was reached,
therefore satisfied.
2) "Argo"
movies are starting to take the place of food thankfuls.
a movie about the Iran hostage crisis in 1980,
the plot is about the US government's plan to repatriate
6 US embassy workers who were able to
avoid capture during the Iranian revolution.
the "best bad plan" was to disguise the people
as a film location search crew.
it wasn't too much action,
but the suspense was very well-executed.
towards the end I was on my toes
saying "comeoncomeoncomeon"
