Family Stress | Patreon Weekly #127
Added 2021-11-08 16:01:03 +0000 UTCHey Patrons, unfortunately I’ve got nothing to share this week.
As I mentioned last week, I’ve been dealing with some family stuff lately, which I hoped would be resolved early enough this week for me to get some work done. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen; instead, this week has been extremely difficult. I got back home late Friday and have been mostly just recovering since.
I’d rather not go into full details, but here’s a quick overview of what happened, which hopefully explains why I’ve not been able to get anything done.
I’ve been out of town helping my grandmother get moved into a long-term care home. Aside from the obvious work & stress that causes, this has also involved clearing out her home in preparation for selling it. This home is filled with so, so many things and it’s no exaggeration to say that clearing it is essentially deconstructing the lives of my grandmother, my late grandfather, my mother, and my three uncles.
When my parents and I arrived, we learned that this deconstruction was going to be rushed through over the course of a few days. Having to work at that pace was extremely tiring and emotionally taxing for everyone. So, for the last week I’ve been doing a bunch of grunt work, dealing with seeing my grandmother’s home ripped apart, dealing with my grandmother moving into a home, and helping my mother deal with all of that as well. It’s been a pretty hellish week.
The good news at least is I’m now on the other end of it, and so I should hopefully be able to have some things to share for next week. I am likely going to be going back down there in early December, but that is mostly to help sort through things we’ve moved to storage, which should hopefully be less soul-crushing.
Comments
I was unfortunately not a decision-maker in this, or I would have objected to doing this whole process over such a small time, it was basically one big rash decision =S. The stakes are thankfully much lower for me than they are for Sir Quimp right now, but you are right that the text from that panel is oddly fitting. I'll be all right though, more than anything I'm just tired, and that's thankfully quite an easy problem to fix.
Shattered Pixel
2021-11-10 19:58:42 +0000 UTCOh, and panel 2 of [the latest middle age strip](https://steveconley.com/the-middle-age/why-dont-you/) might fit
Robert Heinig
2021-11-09 19:42:48 +0000 UTC"Priority" is the word that came to my mind as well: Kudos for keeping them straight. I had a similar "deconstruction" going on a year ago, and that took several weekends over several months, and I still mourn some rash decisions. So, stay sane, stay safe, stay healthy. Let shattered rest unless you need it as therapy, we won't leave. (That is, if people_do_ take offense over reduced shattered development pace, tell us; I'd want to know)
Robert Heinig
2021-11-09 19:37:56 +0000 UTCDevelopers work in priority order, sounds to me like you're making family a priority. The rest of us do it, so should you. If anything this makes you more of a hero to us all. Stay safe
Simon Wall
2021-11-08 18:21:36 +0000 UTCThat's echsad moment, I hope you will get well and do not get pressured by everything.
Trashbox Bobylev
2021-11-08 16:06:33 +0000 UTC
