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A few months ago, I chronicled how the week<\/a> in which I was on a cruise with my family, was a week in which the whole fucking universe decided that they needed to get in touch with me, there were emergencies, there were fraud alerts, and I had no less than 69,000 emails, messages, chats and other alerts that took an inconvenient amount of time to sift through and deal with the most critical of issues.<\/span><\/p>\n Since I realized that the world most certainly does revolve around me, it\u2019s been comical at just how predictably reliable it\u2019s been that basically, when I am indisposed, unavailable, busy, or just plain not in a position to communicate, is when the whole fucking planet wants to communicate with me.<\/span><\/p>\n Case in point, I\u2019m on a flight, connected to shitty WiFi.\u00a0 I can receive texts and check email, but most all else is woefully unreliable, and I feel like I\u2019m on the 2400baud modem that my old 486 was equipped with.\u00a0 While on this flight, my boss DMs me despite my out of office being on, and since I\u2019m not as smart as I think I am, I haven\u2019t disabled notifications from Teams so I\u2019m seeing them come through; additionally, there\u2019s a ping for an impromptu business meeting, to which this sudden nature means something substantial, like someone critical leaving or having gotten shit-canned.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know and won\u2019t know until I get back to the office but I am curious, but not curious enough to reach out to a colleague on a day off to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n A voicemail comes through, and it\u2019s apparently my doctor\u2019s office wanting to reschedule my annual that\u2019s in two months, scheduled a month ago, because the American medical system is completely fucked, and I have to figure out what shitty appointment time probably three more months out I can get in on and hope the doc doesn\u2019t schedule an out of office then too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And then I get a text from my sister telling me to call when I can, which is honestly these days tantamount to ask me to cure cancer as much of an aggrandizingly obnoxious ask to make of me.\u00a0 But I can only imagine it pertains to my dad whom I just left after a fucking week of babysitting, so now I\u2019m curious but can\u2019t call because although I have shitty WiFi, making calls is still not something we do in the air.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been like this fairly regularly since I realized that I control the universe.\u00a0 No matter what I do, it\u2019s when I try to take some time for myself is when everyone in my world starts trying to get in touch with me.<\/span><\/p>\n When I\u2019m at my desk, available, ready, and willing to communicate?\u00a0 Fucking crickets<\/span><\/p>\n Hit the gym during lunch?\u00a0 Ping<\/em><\/span> And so on and so on.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of those things that sure, nobody knows what I\u2019m doing at any given time but all the same I still feel that fucking everyone needs to give my time some more respect and just leave me the fuck alone.<\/span><\/p>\n One of these days if I ever get to have a single god damn day sabbatical, I think I need to hole up in a hotel room all by myself and just sleep, shotgun a show, eat whatever I want to eat, and put my phone the fuck away except for to do shit that I want to do, because the conclusion I\u2019m coming to while I\u2019m blathering all this shit out in that I need to just not be so god damn plugged into so much shit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months ago, I chronicled how the week in which I was on a cruise with my family, was a week in which the whole fucking universe decided that they needed to get in touch with me, there were emergencies, there were fraud alerts, and I had no less than 69,000 emails, messages, chats … Continue reading This shit gets ridiculous sometimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,71,207,37,83,52,105,156,25,146,166,49],"class_list":["post-50961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-famiry","tag-health","tag-job","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-rage","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-triggered","tag-vacation","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50963,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50961\/revisions\/50963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGo out for a run on WFH Fridays?\u00a0 Ding<\/em><\/span>
\nSpending time with my kids?\u00a0 Bing<\/em><\/span>
\nDriving anywhere, any distance?\u00a0 Be-doop<\/em><\/span>
\nRunning errands with an objective?\u00a0 Boop-boop<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n