Well here we go, Three Things Thursday.
1. My work is filled with a bunch of clowns like me. We like to play pranks on each other and while some of them are pretty geeky and you wouldn’t understand (like putting an exit in a bash profile when somebody leaves their computer unlocked — ha!), some of them are funny enough that non-geeks would find them funny. Take yesterday, for example. We have a guy who was just out for the past 2 1/2 weeks and today is his first day back. He spent a lot of his time off camping, so we wanted to gradually ease him back into the workplace.
Side on the folks I work with … we have a small white board on the fridge and we make a list of things we want for snacks and they bring them in. It usually starts with a couple of legitimate requests and then it diverges badly. Here’s what’s up there now:
2. Yesterday was the first day of school out here. Summer vacation is over … or, as I like to say, Tiff’s fall break begins! I have a middle schooler now. Makes me feel old. I remember my first day of middle school like it was yesterday, although really, it was less than halfway through Reagan’s second term. But whatever. I have a kid in middle school. I feel super crazy old.
3. I wrote a lot last week about struggles we were having with Jack, our 8-year-old son who is severely autistic. Well, he’s doing better with his sleep, making it through the night. We’ve had him in ABA therapy all summer, which has helped quite a bit and we’re really starting to see breakthroughs. That doesn’t have anything to do with him sleeping through the night, but still, it’s good news. We’ve also been fighting pretty hard behind the scenes to get him in the right school and it looks like we have that taken care of. We’ll know more in the next week. It’s a lot of ups and downs with him, but we just keep pushing forward. This week has been a pretty good one.
That’s all I have for today. Do you like to pull pranks? What are the people you work with like? Are you old like I am? Have a great weekend!
Your journey with Jack always reminds me of this, http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ . That’s like every day for your team. All those little victories add up.
Keep pushing.
….who is Reagan? JUST KIDDING..I’ve totally read about him in history books 🙂
You know what’s old? Hearing people younger than you complain about feeling old!! 🙂 I’m older than you, yet I don’t feel old. Maybe I will when I have a kid in middle school though.
I am older than you so thanks for that. Only Ryleigh here at work with me so no pranks other than dirty diapers. So glad to hear its been a good week with Jack, you all deserve that!