pager went off during my daughter's piano recital. third row. she saw the light on my face before i stood up. she kept playing. i stepped into the hallway and fixed prod in four minutes. came back for the bow. she smiled like she forgave me and i don't know if i deserve that.
On-Call at My Daughter's Recital
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On-Call at My Daughter's Recital
The pager went off during my daughter's piano recital. Third row. She saw the light on my face before I stood up.
She kept playing. I stepped into the hallway and fixed production in four minutes. Came back for the bow. She smiled like she forgave me, and I do not know if I deserve that.
On-call is not a schedule. It is a veto power held by systems over moments that do not repeat. SRE work teaches you to treat incidents as neutral. Fatherhood teaches you they are not.
I was there. I was also elsewhere. Parenting in tech is learning to live with split attention and hoping love registers even when your hands are on a laptop in the hallway.
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