Today's Daily Double is... press 1 for despair!

try fail try fail try fail. whole day spent trying to help a customer whose phone tree will not hear what my simulated callers are pressing. dtmf tones, the lil beeps that have worked since the sixties, and somewhere between my robots and their menu the beeps just vanish. press 1, nothing. press 1 again, nothing. built an entire throwaway voice agent just to poke at the menu mapping, nothing. a real pain in the ass, and the office was radiator hot, sweater-was-a-mistake hot. by four pm i had produced nothing a person could point at.

so, elevation. picked up my new cleats from the shop, clipped in, and put 12.4 miles and 1371 feet of climbing between me and the beeps. 7:25 ferry home in the dark, ate like a wolf, lady met me at the dock like i'd been at war. press 1 to try again tomorrow. pressing it.