Here is what those twenty-three occasions consisted of.

Four of them were substantive.

Shelter care.

Adjudication, which was two days.

Disposition.

Permanency.

Nineteen of them were not.

Nineteen times I took a day off work, arranged childcare for a baby, drove into the city, parked in a structure that cost twenty-two dollars, sat on a connected plastic chair from eight forty-five in the morning, and was told at some point between ten and two that the matter was continued.