Everyday Canvas

Availability and Downtime

Prompt: Do you feel you have to be available at all times? How has this affected your down time?

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I have to be available to me, at all times, so I can be available to all those other people and places. As to downtime, I found this definition of it online:

"Downtime or outage duration refers to a period of time that a system fails to provide or perform its primary function. Reliability, availability, recovery, and unavailability are related concepts."

I wouldn’t want my system to fail, even when it is not working at full capacity, like right now, due to a possible virus which is making me feel sick. I still push it because I don’t want to lose those related concepts of reliability, availability, and recovery.

Generally speaking, I like all the work I do, no matter how mundane. In addition, I don’t do any work that I don’t like. Thus, at times, the difference between work and leisure is so blurred that I don’t know whether I am working or having fun.

It is a good idea to have fun with what one is doing and finding the fun part of what one has to do.