My name is Suzy, and I’m a tech-a-holic.
Hi Suzy!
I’m looking at a screen more than half (okay, more than
three-quarters) of my waking day. For a while, a year or so ago, I experimented
with an Internet Sabbath. No Screens Sunday, I called it. I think it lasted
three Sundays.
November and December are huge months in the marketing
business. Right now my company is in the midst of several integrated campaigns.
Email inboxes are overflowing, I leapfrog from one conference call to the next.
Forget about trying to find something on my desk. From before the coffee starts
spishing into its carafe at 7:00 a.m. until pumpkin-turning time, you’ll find
me at the keyboard in my little office that my husband not-so-affectionately
calls “the cave.”
Until yesterday.
Over the past 36 hours the Santa Annas have been on steroids
down in SoCal. InPasadena, where my business partner and our main SEO guy lives, 300,000
homes are without power. Including theirs. Massive power outage in the tech biz
is what the lockout is to NBA. Ain’t nothing going forward once the laptop
batteries give out.
In frustration, our developer loped off to one of the few
Starbucks with electricity in the area, and found himself among many—all
bellying up to the bandwidth. Can you say cue the Jeopardy music?
Consequently, deadlines have passed and work is at a standstill for our team until:
a. the power in Pasadena comes back
b. our team relocates out of their present power grid
Now, if that isn't an invitation for me to hunker down and polish up my manuscripts, I don't know what is!
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