15 things I love about America

A belated list for the 4th of July, 2015

NYC, July 4, 2014, Kelly and Rebecca's wedding weekend

1. boneless meat
2. availability of printer toner
3. Target and office supply stores
4. hand towels and/or working hand dryers
5. high quality toilet paper
6. brewed coffee
7. Infrastructure! Examples include:
   • interstate highways
   • prevalent high speed internet
   • weekends where you can expect to have power between the hours of 6am and 6pm
   • pretty universally clean and well regulated waterworks systems
   • animal welfare organizations!!!!!!
   • postal service
   • fire departments
8. dairy products, particularly skim milk and cheese
9. protein-rich diet
10. pedestrians always win
11. sanitation (soap, food refrigeration, readily available cleaning products, first aid products, trash cans, sicknessinducingbacteria-free water) considered fundamental, not a sometimes luxury
12. highly educated physicians
13. lack of corporal punishment and general lack of yelling at children in schools
14. ice
15. gay marriage (also known as marriage)

Sorry this post is so late. I'm operating on Fiji time.