Welcome Home! You have been traveling for work and you just made it to your front door. It’s midnight. You are exhausted from the plane, then train, then Uber ride home. That bed is going to feel amazing moments from now. There is a package on the stoop of your front entrance door. It is not just any package … it’s an Amazon.com package.
You pick it up, now juggling the mail and your luggage, and push your way into the empty house. As you remove your shoes, drop your keys on the counter, and pull out a days worth of travel garbage from your pants pockets that voice in the back of your head channeling Brad Pitt in the movie Seven pleading “What’s in the box!?”
You ignore it long enough to hit the bathroom, long enough to undo your tie, and the sight of the bed even pulls you closer to Dreamland, but you can’t ignore the voice. Back to the counter you look at the box and notice blonde hair on the box. You don’t remember ordering Taylor Swift from Amazon.com but there she is plastered all over the cardboard. Turning the box around in your hands a few time to see all the different angles of Taylor Swift you carefully try to not rip her head in half as you remove the tape and pull back the flaps. She’s not inside. It’s only a box of Category 6a cables. And then you remember what home networking project those cables are for and all thoughts of Taylor Swift and Dreamland are swept aside as you burn the midnight oil upgrading your home network. You are a geek. And you are home.
I began writing about technology as a way to unwind from six days of business travel each week. It’s been more than 20 years since that was my schedule. Life moved on. I’ve had a child, divorced, remarried, moved a few times, changed jobs a few times, but what has remained a constant is that the technology is not getting any easier. From the daily conversations I have with I.T. Professionals around the world, not even A.I. has been able to eliminate burning the midnight oil more than a few times a week. Sometimes it’s for pleasure, sometimes it’s pushing up against a deadline. I spent a decade as a consultant living that cycle. My hope is that the mistakes I’ve made and the subjects I post about on the pages on this blog offer some stress relief when you find yourself in those moments. And if they do, I’d love to hear about it.
My name is Bryan D Garmon. I am a full-time employee of Omnissa Inc and I’m grateful to be able to spend most of my work hours helping Omnissa customers and employees sort out how to configure a myriad of Apple and Microsoft technologies.
This website is a personal passion of mine. I make no money from the site. All comments and opinions are my own.
I can be reached at bgarmon@aftersixcomputers.com.