Yesterday a major problem halted the forums at Youth Ministry Exchange. It started off with some odd forum behavior overnight and continually got more strange until about 3:30 PM when the forums came to a screeching halt.
And a dozen or so people emailed me and/or contacted me through AIM. (Even with my away message up.) It’s amazing how much of a distraction people saying "help" is, isn’t it? It’s really hard to ignore.
As I investigated the problem and discovered that my solution wasn’t all that fun (loads of steps that were scary because it could mess up the forums permanently e.g. destroy the business) I had to deal with all sorts of "normal" distractions. Such as, things that I normally should be doing… like going to soccer practice with Megan.
Why is it so hard to distinguish between what you should be doing and what is a distraction?
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