The Top 10 Reasons for a Tech Writer to take a Hiatus ...

If you are a workaholic the word hiatus maybecheese, and they give me a small wireless mesh
quite foreign to you...read this list it may help younetwork with 4 antennae - then I wakeup.4. A
to understand what you need to do ASAP. Forfriend asks for a suggestion to name his new
those who have had the realization of choosing topuppy and you eagerly suggest naming it
go on Hiatus, congratulations someone reahced'ethernet' or 'wimax'.3. Another friend asks for a
you in time.10. Your nephew calls at 3am - whysuggestion for renting a movie and you tell her
are you asleep, you are normally writing or doing'Firewall', and she says because of Harrison Ford
research - to tell you about the birth of his newand I don't remember who he is, because I'm
son and you ask how many gigabytes does hetalking about the technology used in the movie.2.
have and how much memory capacity.9. AfterYour next movie rental suggestion is 'SwordFish'
kissing your significant other and saying goodnightand not because of John-what's-his-face or the
'Carly', she asks who is 'Carly' and you tell herBerry actress...it's the synched monitors used to
Carly Fiorna the former head of HP. She believescommit the hacker crime that was the star of
you, because she proofread a podcast that wasthe movie.1. After 3 days of a forced 'vacation'
being prepped last year.8. When babysitting foryou go to the doctor's office for depression and
relatives for a week during the weekend a couplewhile waiting in his office four disabled Blackberries
of their children field-strip their parent's wirelessget fixed with rubberbands and paperclips - his
router.7. The parents of the childre n take out adiagnosis, technology deprivation and he
restraining order against you and after the judgerecommends either a Hiatus or being committed
sees four 6-year olds take apart and reassembleto a center for the technologically obsessesed...a
a wireless router, he agrees.6. The publisher callshiatus sounds like good medicine.Daviyd Peterson:
and declines your manuscript for a book on10-year consultant, instructor, trainer of
computer homeschooling African Americandigital divide solutions for home and business.
children, he has recieved a better submission fromHelps African American and minority
a group of anonymous 6 year olds.5. I go thruhomeschools bridge the
Mickey D's drive-thru and order a McMesh withdigital divide by becoming computer homeschools.