This is the first of many posts I plan on posting this year for 2013. I’m going to try to make a few rules about this so that I can try to setup safe, but useful constraints to what I post. I’m sharing them here so you can lower your standards 😉
- Doesn’t have to be every day
- Don’t just be thankful for a person – be specific
- “Funny be – there is no try” – Master Yoda
I’m going to start in an interesting place: I’m thankful for Tony Nuzzi. He’s my friend, he’s a brother-in-Christ, and he’s got a great sense of humor. The stuff that he has been through has not defined who he is, he’s grown from it. He has dyslexia and he pushed through that to become one of the more accomplished writers I know. You won’t read most of his writing, though, because he’s a coder and has written numerous patents. Those aren’t “sit down and read” material, sorry 🙂
Tony and I met because his dear wife (whom I will be thankful for on another day to be fair) and I worked together at the Manger Christian bookstore in Carson City, NV. Tony came by on his lunch break and immediately I wasn’t sure what to think of this guy. I hoped he was good enough for my friend Erin. As it turns out I’ve learned quite a few things from him about being a dad and husband and I think he’s perfect for her 😀 He still married up.
Tony has not been afraid to lovingly confront me in my shortcomings and he’s also not been afraid to run out of a grocery store next to me laughing hysterically because one or two of us may or may not have farted and left a smell so rank in the magazine aisle that our wives were embarrassed enough for all four of us.
I’m thankful for the friendship that has endured for almost a decade and a half. I’m thankful for the laughter, some tears, some guitar time, computer time, Bible time, and of course taking our families to Disney World two years ago. He’s one of my best friends and I hope you get to meet him some day if you have not met him (yet). Ask him about a Rolls-K’nardly.