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An urgent broadcast from the Department of Perpetually Empty Inboxes

Dear Esteemed TAGITM Members,

We regret to inform you that our newsletter has recently experienced a severe case of “input latency.” Not from our servers — those are running at 99.9999% uptime (thanks, sysadmins!) — but from our members’ keyboards.

Yes, the content submission form has seen less activity than Internet Explorer in 2025.

Despite our belief that you're all harboring fascinating tales of network glitches, conference adventures, rogue AI encounters, or your 47-step solution to a printer not printing (step one: threaten it), our inbox remains quieter than a data center on a holiday weekend.

We ran diagnostics.

• Spam filters? Clear.
• Mail server? Online.
• DNS? Flawless.
• Inspiration? …well, let’s talk about that.

Perhaps you're waiting for just the right moment — a cosmic alignment of caffeine, spare time, and Wi-Fi strength. Perhaps you're convinced your story about that one time the backup server saved the day won't interest anyone. (Spoiler: it will. We love server hero stories.)

Let us be perfectly clear:

If you've ever…

✅ Written a line of code that worked on the first try (and scared you)…
✅ Solved a ticket with nothing but Google, Stack Overflow, and spite…
✅ Fought with a legacy system older than your intern…
✅ Survived a meeting that could have been an email…

…then you, dear reader, have a story worth sharing.

We accept articles, tips, comics, rants, haikus about patch Tuesday, ASCII art, dramatic reenactments of DevOps disasters — if it fits in an email, we’ll read it.

So, dust off that draft, fire up Notepad++ (or VS Code, or your text editor of choice), and give the newsletter team something to work with besides Shane’s shameless self-promotions (Okay, we’ll still keep those 😊)

Submissions can be sent to kthompso@mckinneytexas.org, and we promise to treat them better than a misconfigured firewall treats incoming traffic.

Yours in desperate editorial anticipation,
The Communications Committee (aka KAT Thompson)
Still staring at an empty inbox — and it's not even a Monday.