https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/taking-action/ Recent content in Taking-Action on A Geek's Life Hugo en Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:28:15 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/04/19/biting-the-bullet/ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:28:15 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/04/19/biting-the-bullet/ <p>Against everything my head tells me, I pick up the phone and call my elder sister. Growing up, she and I at best had a tenuous relationship, at the worst of times we barely spoke to each other for long stretches. She always had this way of taking bluntness to illogical extremes in my opinion. Lately, Mother has put her on the job of hassling me.</p> <p>When my call connects, she is in the middle of mixing up some cereal for her youngest child. She puts my call on speaker phone mode as she juggles her child, the phone call and the bowls she is using.</p>