It was autumn, was it ever fall? Could you tell me what this illustrates?

Holy pre-holiday blog -

Thanksgiving is rolling in quickly, which always means getting all your errands done before everything closes up as well as getting the house into guest-ready shape. Both of these things are equal amounts of fun but getting the house ready might win this year as we just had the inside of our house painted, which essentially put us back to a just-moved-in state of mess and disarray.

In the middle of it all there are some fun moments, like the teenager being released from his inpatient status and guarded in an enhanced state of grounding until he can be properly enrolled in the next phase in the program. That happens today.
The really crappy thing with the whole teenager process so far (on the logistic end of things, the whole process is predicated on really shitty circumstances so I've left those out) is the fact that they don't even ask 'is this going to work or has this disrupted everything in your life enough yet?', they just tell you 'you'll need to show up here, now' and that's just what you have to do.

Of course, as a parent, you just do what needs to be done and that's the whole idea

As an employee or adult that has tons responsibilities it's crazy that after your teenager has pulled you out of work several times to get him off school property and any number of things that lead up to them being locked up and then released into an outpatient program, they proceed as if your time is already so fucked up that taking up more and more of it wont make any difference. I'm glad that their sole focus is getting the kid better to the point that they don't bother to consider such things but I also live in reality the rest of the time and that's been difficult to keep explaining to people I've had to bail on.
Luckily the boss has been extraordinarily cool about all of it.

FULL DISCLOSURE> I write that fully knowing several people I work with read this blog. Thanks guys.

Then there's the smaller fun things that all help balance the rest of it out and I've been trying to catch as many of them as I can when I can.
We had our final IAGG of the year this Sunday to a sold out house and had a killer show, Five Man Job performed The Score and had a good time of it and generally the year ended on a huge high note.

We got our domain name back, which means I'm now adding another site to my to-do list, which I promised myself I wasn't going to add anything to, but that's awesome

The Shield series finale last night was fucking great, I've been a huge fan of the show since it began and I thought the ending was nothing short of awesome television.

The next work trip is a giant one, and to Vegas of all places. The wife is joining me for a small part of it even though I'll be working all day and she'll be forced to sleep in and kill time at the spa and slot machines without me. The mini-vacation may just keep us from losing it.

that's it - running errands in between appointments with the boy and hammering out work from the home office in an effort to still do my job despite everything else.