It’s never gonna happen but when you are hit with a major digital failure it’s always good to where your data is.
Despite having a fairly robust set-up it’s really hard to stay focused and not succumb to the emotional inconvenience of an IT failure. It always happens when you are busy, traveling and distracted with real life. Individuals seldom practice the scenario and companies are on high alert standby to fleece you of any hard earning monies to fix the issue.
“everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. Mike Tyson
I promptly starting preparing for the Monday morning blitz on my senses. I found myself delaying the morning commute and slowing packing my mobile office for relocation but wait….it’ Sunday. I haven’t spoken to a real-life person in 48 hours and the curtains have been drawn throwing out my perception of time.
My devices confirm, Yes, it is Sunday but I’m dreading Monday. Dreading having to see people, talk, explain, attend meetings, reason and give my opinion on anything. Second-hand bereavement, like group bereavement, is a stealth problem that creeps up on you. When Timothy Hampton died, 1 day before my birthday, I was sent into a downward swirl of unjustified grief. I had so many reasons to be happy yet this unexplained tragic death forced me to deny my very existence.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice wakes the voice in your head.
Almost 9 years later the overwhelming emotions of second-hand loss are here again. It’s like I don’t deserve to be sad, after all it wasn’t my Loved One, yet the feeling is here as real as anything and nobody knows it but me.
I found a few opinions on the stages of bereavement so hope I can fast track to Acceptance and hope soon.
Absolute denial
Pain & guilt
Anger & bargaining
"depression", reflection, loneliness
Turning point – Clearing out
Reconstructing your Life
Acceptance & hope
At age 14, I strategically used Valentines Day to anonymously share my feelings with girls I fancied or admired in class and watch from a safe distant never revealing myself in person.
Today it’s almost impossible to be truly anonymous and successful hiding is actually frowned upon as freakish and creepy. The same techniques to surprise a Loved One can be used to destroy, mislead or corrupt without trace but It comes down to moral intentions and belief systems. Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to bring out the undetected schemer in you.
Stealth: The ability to reach and/or kill your target without detection.
Stealth mood is one of the most satisfying gaming strategies built into a wide genre of titles, in fact, many games award or punish you based on your stealth skills. I’m rather addicted to stealth IRL and in my digital playgrounds, the best penetration testers often adopt this mindset to their core.
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” Kali OS
In my early career, the word redundancy used to strike fear into my well-being. Decades later it’s a place a comfort and represents resilience. Backing up the backup and testing the back-up routinely is an easy habit to adopt. Sadly. For many end users, they simply store all their precious data on a single device with unknown backup status.
Where’s my data?
A family member nearly lost over 5000 images because they critically failed to even grasp the relevance of backup or data management.
The strategy should always be protecting the data first and the end-point device second but unfortunately, we love our shiny phones way too much to think that way.
My first gym session of the year felt great last night and is the perfect antidote to my PS4 Withdrawal. Grinding my way every night through FallOut4 will have to wait for now.
One pretty bad side effect is my tendency to trigger real-world arguments to feed my Amygdala. There is nothing better than a “good” argument to say the things you normally keep to yourself. Of course, for me, arguments have an even worst side effect of sparking MG symptoms of sleepiness and chronic fatigue.
Leaving my PS4 in another country is pretty much the only way I could whine myself off my trophy hunting addiction.
So, the extra 20+ hours I week I’ll gain from no gameplay will be spent on watching Twitch, research study, Movies and exercise. Most of all I need to work on my Cryptocurrency portfolio. After the last quarters rise in Coin values, the average business person is acutely aware of the potential and looking for stables ways to make a big buck.
I came across a new breed of company a few weeks ago. Hash Power Service provider meets Network marketing is an interesting blend that makes it easy for anyone to buy-in but it seems these hybrid business models for Cryptocurrency try to paint too much of a pretty picture for the consumer. In the meantime, the Meltdown vulnerability makes it clear that hardware Wallets are probably the way to go in the long-term.
30 mins cardio yesterday…no meds
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