Welcome to 2026 and the blog I am continuing to work on and have not forgotten about.
I had a bad case of spring fever because it was about 60 degrees today and work was slow for me. It’s Sprint Planning Time which means the people with the real jobs who do actual work sit around and talk about what work they will do at their real jobs over the next 8 or 10 weeks and people like me, who write documentation, sit quietly in the corner and drool because no one ever really seems to know what to do with me.
It’s been a problem for a while but when we were setting goals for the new year one thing I told my boss was I know I really need to get more annoying when people aren’t sending me the information I ask for. Today he said to me “I need you to be annoying about this” (“this” being a matter of moving files around). Normally if I’m “told” to do something the ADHD defiance kicks in. Even if it was a thing I was about to do. Like, if I’m heading for the bathroom before leaving the house and you say to me “Be sure to pee before we go” I will automatically NOT have to pee for like 8 hours (not really an exaggeration).
But if it’s something interesting like “go be annoying” I’m going to take that as permission.
Basically, with one short sentence, my boss turned a chaos demon loose in the team. Which sounds like it would be a problem, but there’s at least three others of varying degree. It’s probably closer to seven, but I don’t work with everyone. I don’t think it would be much more than ten though. Our department’s not that big. On the other hand, it IS an IT department.
Draw your own conclusions because this is drifting close to math territory and I don’t go there (I can say there’s not enough information to continue because you don’t know how many people there are in total. I know enough math to know that).
Tomorrow I have to go to the dentist because I lost a filling on New Year’s Eve. Not a big deal except it’s one between my two front teeth, and now I have a gap and it’s not really bad because I don’t smile or talk or … show my face anywhere other than my own house… but sometimes I do have to talk on the phone (to the coworkers) and anyway when I was being annoying about the file move, I could hear the lisp. Listhp.
I don’t know about you, but right now all I’m doing is flailing through the apocalypse. I can’t even handle reading news without my brain going into protective mode and shutting down. Real great start to the new year. It’s not a new one though. We’re in 2020 part 6.