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Before I carve out some time to write about the famiry cruise vacation, I just wanted to briefly chat about the fact that in the one week plus a travel day in which I was mostly offline and then for the most part radio silent as far as (reliable) internet connectivity went, pretty much the whole universe moved as far as people trying to get in touch with me, work pinging me endlessly at times in which they never do, people calling, leaving voicemails, and all sorts of news or internet activity that I was completely incapable of getting to, or even knowing about beyond the hints that I could surmise from the odd capabilities of pretty much only being able to receive push notifications and texts through iMessage only.<\/span><\/p>\n Ordinarily, I lead a pretty boring life where not a whole lot happens on a regular basis.\u00a0 There are times in which I get so bored at home or at work, where I\u2019m practically begging for my group chats or friend groups to fucking pipe up and chat, and I get to points where I feel like I have to restrain myself from trying to initiate lest I feel like I\u2019m spamming and that the people in my life don\u2019t like me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When I\u2019m able to be on top of things, I typically manage to do such, and all my apps and mediums are typically left tidy and clean, and I\u2019m most of the time pleased about the minimal amounts of catching up I have to do, when I\u2019m at the most indisposed with the kids or work for a few hours at most.<\/span><\/p>\n But seriously, it was almost comical at how much activity seemed to only happen when I was completely incapable of keeping up with it.\u00a0 My Fridays are work from home days, and it\u2019s like this unspoken understanding that most people are capable of skirting the rules a little bit and stretching the \u201cfrom home\u201d part, be it through running errands, tackling appointments, or in my case, attempting to get out of town without having to officially burn any PTO, as long as the work gets done and communication is not completely radio silent.<\/span><\/p>\n However, in the one Friday in which we deemed our travel day, I figured I could skirt my work day so long as I kept my one meeting, and made sure to respond to any work-related messages in a timely manner.\u00a0 Naturally, my work meeting was at like 11:30, so that loomed over my head throughout the start of my drive, and it wasn\u2019t until we were around Macon was I able to check that off of my list, and I got work pings pretty much all throughout the entire day, that required mythical wife to transcribe for me, or me to dangerously try and type out while driving, and at one point required me to pull off the highway, VPN in and try to intervene myself.<\/span><\/p>\n It went all the way until exactly 5 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, it was my obligation to have to be able to work until 5 pm, but on a Friday, I knew my counterpart who was also involved in the work was as aggravated as I was.<\/span><\/p>\n I told mythical wife to remind me not to try and skirt the Friday again in the future and to just burn the PTO.<\/span><\/p>\n As far as the rest of the trip was concerned in which I was more or less forced offline which wasn\u2019t really a bad thing in the sense that I actually went to bed for healthy durations of time and didn\u2019t get sucked into the internet vortex of scrolling and wasting time, what was weird is that I was still able to get push notifications of all the things that I was missing, but was really incapable of staying on top of anything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I get free international roaming and data, which was serviceable in the past, but I guess T-Mobile really sucks compared to Sprint, and Mexico aside, the data available to me in Grand Cayman, Jamaica and Disney\u2019s private Bahamian island were all inept garbage, and may as well as have remained offline, so it got to a point where I was just like, fuck it, and gave up on even trying.<\/span><\/p>\n But in the week in which I was off the grid, aside from work blowing me up, there was apparently all sorts of shit happening in the world that got a lot of my shit blowing up.\u00a0 Wrestling events, sports happenings, interesting news in general.\u00a0 Family gatherings, friends reaching out, and even a friend of mine getting engaged.\u00a0 My dad, whom my sister and I are dealing with the things that occur in later stages of life, has been making a lot of questionable independent decisions, one of which caused his bank to contact me, naturally while I\u2019m out of the country, to ensure its authenticity, which spiked my stress and anxiety at being incapable of handling it.\u00a0 Family chats blowing up trying to arrange future things, multiple friend group chats exploding with topics and takes that I\u2019d ordinarily like to participate in.\u00a0 All the while, being pretty much offline for seven nights.<\/span><\/p>\n I understand that this is among the pinnacle of first world problems.\u00a0 But it was almost comical at just how much the world moved just as soon as I was completely unable to witness all the happenings of it.\u00a0 To the point where even though I\u2019m home and beginning the settling in process, I wanted to blurt out this diatribe before taking any time at even attempting to ease back into the connected life, before anything else, not to mention the component of where I had the above graphic in my mind, and where the Photoshop sometime steers the post.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before I carve out some time to write about the famiry cruise vacation, I just wanted to briefly chat about the fact that in the one week plus a travel day in which I was mostly offline and then for the most part radio silent as far as (reliable) internet connectivity went, pretty much the … Continue reading Clearly the world does revolve around 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