What's it all about, Alfie?

It's that one day in the year when we pack up and head down to Indy for that amazing family get-together that is Thanksgiving Dinner. Last year, it wasn't all that great. The food would have been more at home on a New York five-star restaurant table, that a family table in the Midwest, but that's my family (at times) - they never go half-way.

Still, it was nice to see everyone - even those relatives that you're actually glad you don't see all that often. Face it - if you wanted to see them, you would, so the fact that you don't has to be saying something.

So down I go, and it'll be a fine day. But I'll be glad to get back home.

This month has been a lot of work on the Auto App Package for The Shop. This is the package of legal documents that you get from your mortgage company after you give them all your information, and the details of the house you want to buy, and they work up a quote for the loan, and there are all these legal documents you need to sign before the loan goes into underwriting. It's a manual process, and they want it to be automatic.

So this is what I've been doing. It's not really amazing work, but it's pulling together a lot of the details from many different sources, an do all the annoying edge-case math to get all the numbers to line up, and then present it in a way so that when the other groups that need to use this aren't ready to finish this, we can go into the field with it and deliver value until such time as they are.

It's just another month at The Shop.