https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/phone-calls/ Recent content in Phone-Calls on A Geek's Life Hugo en Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:56:13 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/04/17/wedding-bells/ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:56:13 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/04/17/wedding-bells/ <p>I wake up to the insistent whine of my cell phone. I try to let it ring, hoping that whoever it is will leave a voice mail but when the call ends there is only a respite of a couple of minutes before the next call comes in. I drag myself to my desk and pick up the phone on the third ring, it is my mother.</p> <p><em>- Oohjay how are you,</em> she asks.</p> https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/03/09/father-issues/ Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:18:18 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/03/09/father-issues/ <p>On the 4th ring, someone answers the phone. The voice is distant, seemingly attenuated by all the miles of cabling and ether between me and the recipient. There is a certain sleepy quality to the voice too, as though I have woken them up from the depths of an afternoon nap. Its late afternoon in that part of the world, that time of day when the oppressive heat and the lack of activity on a Sunday afternoon combine to lull one into a dreamy haze.</p>