Tag: So Tired
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How Did We Not Know?
The good and bad news is that it was an issue that would only happen for this specific customer’s uncommon configuration, and something only they could control and fix. There were people who were aware of this issue, but those specific people weren’t on the call during the night, and those of us that were…
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Just Introverted
It hit me that I might be more introverted than average when other moms would commiserate about how much they missed being able to get out of the house and see other people after giving birth to their kids, but… wasn’t that part of the charm of maternity leave?
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Good Old Morning
Believe it or not, I recall being rather thankful when the kids would manage to throw up directly on me, because it was so much easier to change my clothes than bedding.
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Suspiciously Good Sleep
So someone at work started saying how they had slept the whole night without any incidents while they were on-call, and everyone present immediately knew where they were going: the instant concern that there were actually incidents but they had missed the notifications.
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Hulk Secret
Laying down on a prospective mattress with my spouse in the mattress store: Sales person: “And what about you, are you comfortable?” Me: “Oh, we don’t need to worry about me. I will be able to sleep.”
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Forget The Alarm
To clarify: that’s not “me” in the comic – that’s not how I (outwardly) wake up. I got to hear this happen one day when one of my kids woke up to the usual school day alarm and decided to try this approach for dealing with it.
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TGIF?
This was some years back, but I can still feel the visceral disbelief that it was fine to put the issue aside when they were ready to stop working for the day, but it could not be more urgent to wake us up at 2 AM.
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