Alright folks, I'm playing catchup here and this will be a rather large update. So buckle up, it's a couple pages.
First things first, I feel like we had a pretty decent weekend. The boys had a great visit with their mom and aside from a few hiccups with Gavin related behaviors, it seems like a very positive experience.
That's awesome.
They adjusted to being home in short order and picked up life where they'd left off before their trip.
We spent some time working on the house. The boys want to bolster our security, as do I, because of all the recent shootings in our neighborhood. Just the other night, there were three woman shot while they were sitting on their front porch. I heard the shots but didn't know the details.
Last night we heard gun shots again but I don't know what they were attached to. I pulled the footage off the camera and you can hear, at least what sounds like gunshots.
The kids and the dog are experiencing a great deal of anxiety as a result of all the recent gun shots. For that matter, I'm experiencing a great deal of anxiety over this as well. Ruby just buries herself as far into the couch as she can get and just shakes. I can't really help her but I can manage to keep the kids distracted, at least for a little while. They feel better until we hear more shots. It's an endless cycle.
Yesterday, I had to call the fire department because it looked like a house was on fire down the street. Turns out it was a bunch of brush leading to an abandoned house, apparently it was likely arson. I haven't seen how much, if any of the house was burned. Our neighborhood was full of smoke and it smelled like a structure fire.
No one was hurt which is always good. People have been setting fire to vacant houses in the city. You may recall a few years back, someone torched the house across the street from us. One on the corner burned not long after that. It's definitely a problem.
I almost forgot the guy that set his girlfriends car on fire while she was inside. She was very lucky to have escaped without serious injury. That was four houses down and my kids and I witnessed that one briefly because we were throwing the football in the yard. I got them back into the house and called 9-11 for that as well.
There are a few things going on this week and oh, by the way, I got the car looked at. The damage from my idiot neighbors insane fireworks debacle on July 4th was almost $6,000.00. I have to call the bodyshop caused I found an area that we missed when looking it over. In case you missed it, here's about 45 seconds of what went on for hours.
I had put yellow tape on all the areas where damage had occurred. The car was in pristine condition when I got it last year and I touched up the few spots that needed touched up. Everything new is from my car having professional grade fireworks literally explode all over it for several hours that night.
The car will be gone for three or four weeks. That would normally be a huge deal and cause for a rental but with COVID19, we don't go anywhere very often anyway, especially now that our county is now in the red. That's not a good thing.
There's several doctors appointments this week for the kids. All will be virtual because of COVID19. The only one that's kinda important is Gavin's. I'm meeting with his PCP to discuss the issues with his current lab work.
Aside from that, I'm going to try scheduling some recording sessions. I have a few episodes left in post that I need to finish and release. I've not been actively recording new episodes because life has been insane with everything going on and there's police sirens blarring thoughtout the day. That's not something easily removed.
The police activity hasn't let up but I'm going to try working around it and see how things go. I hate inconveniencing my guests by having to re-record things but standing still isn't getting me anywhere.
I have tentative plans to record a very important episode with someone about the recent police shootings of autistic children. That's right, children. It's drowned out by all the political and pandemic insanity but police are literally shooting autistic children and it's a fucking problem. Don't believe me? Google it. Nevermind, I'll save you the effort. Click here.
I want to take this topic on because it matters and parents are terrified.
That's it for tonight. That's a pretty decent update and I need to get some sleep. Stay safe folks and I'll talk to you later.
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