Dear Quaker Oatmeal Guy,

Thank you for my family (wifeypoo, the two boys, mom, dad, sisters, grandmas, among others), the mowie doggies, the ruff-ruff doggy, my friends, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Chattanooga, that I'm so RICH, for Buck and the new co-blogger RSA, for George Dickel and eggnog. Thank you for the blogosphere, the Rocky Top Brigade, and Ricky and Dave and Alice and Brainwise and Buddy Don and Say Uncle and PZ and all of them at HamDems and Joe Public, and the Pulse bloggers. Thank you for Chattanooga, Racoon Mountain and Elder Mountain, Lookout Mountain, Signal Mountain, that nasty old Tennessee River, and several other geographical features. Also Coolidge Park and other public places. Thank you for the Constitution, emancipation, suffrage, the civil rights act, and debit cards. Thank you for John Stewart, Rob Corddry, Stephen Colbert, Murray Waas, and Congressman Murtha. Thank you for antidepressants.

Amen.

P.S. Thanks for nothing that I have to go to work today.