Tag: So Tired

  • Persuasion 100

    Persuasion 100

    My kids have definitely figured out what kinds of things will motivate me.

  • Forget The Alarm

    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.

  • TGIF?

    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.

  • Just 2 More Weeks

    Just 2 More Weeks

    Yeah…. *siiiiiiiiiiiigh*

  • It’s Business Hours Somewhere

    It’s Business Hours Somewhere

    Seriously though, it does suck to have to be the one waking other people up at their 3 AM.

  • Hold On To Your Sanity

    Hold On To Your Sanity

    Every baby is different, so the “newborn experience” isn’t as equally harrowing for everybody. Parents with challenging babies love hearing how great that time was for someone else.

  • As Soon As I Close My Eyes

    As Soon As I Close My Eyes

    I often find myself having trouble sleeping while on-call expecting that alert to happen at any moment. How annoying to be the one responsible for messing up my own sleep when nothing happens.

  • In the Dark of the Night

    In the Dark of the Night

    Thankfully this particular scenario happened some time ago and it’s less common now for another team to gleefully ignore the severity classifications.

  • Idle Chit-Chat

    Idle Chit-Chat

    Certainly it was not the best night of sleep I’ve ever had, but at least I was able to remember some of these night-time kid pronouncements for comic purposes.

  • Learning Opportunity

    Learning Opportunity

    It’s nice when you can make a low-stakes mistake rather than a really catastrophic data-loss type of mistake.