Thank You!

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Sometimes I get really frustrated with people who make my life difficult by doing their job poorly.  Then I had an epiphany: How often to I thank the people who make my life easier by doing their job well? It's easy to overlook the hard workers who never draw any (negative) attention to themselves. So last week, I decided to acknowledge someone whose work I really appreciate.  This guy runs gobs of mass spectrometry samples for me and does rock solid work.  So, I made him a loaf of bread.  And, I wrote him a thank you note.  

Sometimes the cure for self-pity is to stop focussing on what you don't have and start focussing on what you do.