Went to see my parents yesterday to help with computer issues (could not fix them myself, unfortunately). My dad, sadly, is 100% back into the paranoid personality disorder (could hardly had two sentences in a row without hearing about a conspiracy or a person who let him down in his past). It is difficult and heartbreaking to see someone you love retreating back into this shit, especially when it's so hard to get them into therapy in these cases.

My dad, sadly, is 100% back into the paranoid personality disorder (could hardly had two sentences in a row without hearing about a conspiracy or a person who let him down in his past). It is difficult and heartbreaking to see someone you love retreating back into this shit, especially when it's so hard to get them into therapy in these cases.

I'm sorry, Shir. That's so hard.

I’m sorry, Shir.

Yes, David, it was. Since I never made any of the F2Fs, these zoom sessions have sort of felt like a chance to meet people. And they weren’t kidding about having to schedule things. Amyth has a whiteboard on her door to keep all the planned visits straight. When I was over on Tuesday, the next open slot to drop by wasn’t until Friday.

Oh no, Shir, I'm sorry to hear that! It must be awful for both of you.

I'm sorry, Shir.

Agile is one of those things that sounds great but in practice rarely works the way it's supposed to. As someone said, especially with regard to tech writing. Dev gets through the end of the sprint to be done, which means writers don't see the final feature until the end of the sprint. But docs are supposed to be done by the end of the sprint. Had this convo 1.5 million times at my previous workplace. Ugh.

For Christmas, we are doing a full turkey dinner as we didn't for T'giving and my kids were very upset about it. Mind you, they NEVER eat the turkey dinner, so I have no idea. I guess just that everything is different because of COVID - we had one child leave the table in tears (even though we made one of his faves - lasagna) and the other ask where the turkey was. They also wanted to eat in the dining room rather than kitchen, which we did and was fine but again - unexpected. Trying not to make the same mistakes for Christmas.

Glam, kids love to confuse their parents, especially wrt food. ltc will love something one day and call it "ewwwwy" the next.

sj, I predict that my youngest will have one bite of everything and then ask for a hot dog. My oldest may have a bite of mashed potatoes, dressing, and turkey, and the ask for a cheese quesadilla. Have kids, they said...

I'm sorry, Shir.

Glam, that reminds me of two things: I think my sister once suggested something slightly different to her boys (at the time; they are men now) abut the timing for Christmas - I don't know, maybe open some presents and home, then go to Oma's? - apparently the older one looked at her as if she were speaking another language and said, very definitively, "Chrismas. Is. At. Oma's." This is the same one who, in his mid-twenties, looked askance at some fancied up version of green bean casserole and mumbled, "Thanksgiving is not the time to experiment." Surprised he didn't break out into "Tradition!" from Fiddler.

sj, I predict that my youngest will have one bite of everything and then ask for a hot dog. My oldest may have a bite of mashed potatoes, dressing, and turkey, and the ask for a cheese quesadilla. Have kids, they said...

ltc will almost definitely eat the lasagna and probably the calamari and shrimp on Christmas Eve because those have been consistent favorites for her. But on Thanksgiving she had one bite of turkey and some cranberry sauce and asked for pie.

LOL, JenP! Kids are weird.