On a Budget

So, I was doing a little math.  I got to wondering how many thanks a person can give in a year.  I was thinking about doing some forecasting analysis, to see what and how many thanks I may look forward to making this year.  It has to be more than one per day.  It could be as many as one per waking hour.  It really could be more than one per hour, but I think there is some saturation point at which it might begin to impact one's productivity at work.

I tossed around some numbers and arrived at 16 waking hours, averaging one insightful moment of thankfulness every four hours [notably, a random number somewhere between one per day and one every five minutes].  A little multiplication [a dash of division to taste], and I have a budget of 1,460 thanks per year.

I love math.

Thank you for math.

Now, what am I likely to be thankful for?  After some some back-of-the-envelope brainstorming, I've prepared a pie chart forecasting likely categories into which my moments of thanks are likely to fall.  Any good thing not appearing on the following pie chart can probably fit into one of the categories listed.

Thank you for Excel

Denise's Annual Thankfulness Budget, 2013

Thank God, the source of all our gifts.