The Top 10 Reasons For A Tech Writer To Take A Hiatus

If you are a workaholic the word hiatus maybe quite foreign to you…read this list it may help you to understand what you need to do ASAP. For those who have had the realization of choosing to go on Hiatus, congratulations someone reached you in time.
10. Your nephew calls at 3am – why are you asleep, you are normally writing or doing research – to tell you about the birth of his new son and you ask how many gigabytes does he have and how much memory capacity.
9. After kissing your significant other and saying goodnight ‘Carly’, she asks who is ‘Carly’ and you tell her Carly Fiorna the former head of HP. She believes you, because she proofread a podcast that was being prepped last year.
8. When babysitting for relatives for a week during the weekend a couple of their children field-strip their parent’s wireless router.
7. The parents of the children take out a restraining order against you and after the judge sees four 6-year olds take apart and reassemble a wireless router, he agrees.
6. The publisher calls and declines your manuscript for a book on computer homeschooling African American children, he has received a better submission from a group of anonymous 6 year olds.
5. I go through Mickey D’s drive-through and order a McMesh with cheese, and they give me a small wireless mesh network with 4 antennae – then I wakeup.
4. A friend asks for a suggestion to name his new puppy and you eagerly suggest naming it ‘ethernet’ or ‘wimax’.
3. Another friend asks for a suggestion for renting a movie and you tell her ‘Firewall’, and she says because of Harrison Ford and I don’t remember who he is, because I’m talking about the technology used in the movie.
2. Your next movie rental suggestion is ‘SwordFish’ and not because of John-what’s-his-face or the Berry actress…it’s the synced monitors used to commit the hacker crime that was the star of the movie.
1. After 3 days of a forced ‘vacation’ you go to the doctor’s office for depression and while waiting in his office four disabled Blackberries get fixed with rubberbands and paperclips – his diagnosis, technology deprivation and he recommends either a Hiatus or being committed to a center for the technologically obsessed…a hiatus sounds like good medicine.