I understand that this quarantine has been harshly taxing on some people. For a while there, I thought that my family was doing pretty well and I wasn’t truly distraught about our well-being. And then, my kids started doing different stuff. That’s when it became apparent that they were struggling a lot more with the shelter-in-place order than the adults were. In fact, I have been pretty happily working from home and enjoying all of the focused work that I was getting done. I could happily spend 10 or 12 hours a morning plugging away at my PC without feeling tired. Then, one morning my PC seemed to be missing. I searched high and low, but the PC was nowhere to be found. I only figured out what had happened to it after noticing something weird inside my air vent. I was hanging out with the kids when I looked up and saw a weird light blinking at me in between the slats of our air vents. Immediately, I was panicked that someone was using our Heating & A/C system to spy on the family. I thought there could be a camera or listening device in our air duct, potentially hidden behind every single air vent. If the heating and cooling system wasn’t running, the mic would honestly be able to choice up our voices through the air vents. I shushed to the kids and creeped closer to the air vent. I could feel the tension in the room growing as I unscrewed the air duct cover and carefully peered inside. That’s when I found my PC. My kids had hidden it in the air duct so I would stop working so much.
