RFC

I work with computers. Servers, to be specific. There is something comforting about dealing with logical machines when my mental state is anything but.

Which it hasn't been as of late. Holidays are tough and this one is shaping up to be tougher than the last few. I've already had two meltdowns and although I'm hoping that's the last of it, I doubt that will be the case.

The problem with a meltdown, other than the crying, the stuffy nose from the crying, the intense emotional pain, the headache from the crying, is that picking up the pieces afterwards resembles playing detective. Why does this lamp not have a lightbulb in it? Track down lightbulbs, which are not in the cabinet where they should be. Search for lightbulbs which are...on the counter...partially open....oh right! I was opening the package to get a lightbulb to replace the one I'd just taken out of the lamp when I broke down for the first time that day.

Which brings me to the title: RFC stands for Requests For Comments, a brilliantly simple method of introducing new ideas to the technical community. RFCs brought us DNS (what keeps the Internet humming), WINS (what lets you find the server at work, among other things) and a slew of other nifty technologies. My thought? Wouldn't it be great if someone introduced an RFC for a method for automatically 'tagging' your life at the moment before a breakdown occurs, and for retrieving the 'tagged' information once the breakdown had past. You'd be able to, literally, pick up where you'd left off without the hassle of figuring out, say, why your phone is in the bathroom instead of out on the counter charging like it should be.

I was even going to write one up, but since it would contain technology that doesn't even exist yet (emotional fluctuation detector, flash memory brain implants, holographic bookmarks) I'm not sure the IETF would approve.