CSBMonkeys… all.

On some days the chain smoking blue monkey is a person. The person that gets you the results you want. The results that you can’t get yourself. We all need those monkeys eventually. Often, it is technology that gets the result. There are those other times when it is a person who knows more about the technology than you do that gets you the result.

There are moments when the “result” is nothing more than recovery. The aftermath of a disaster. Some csbmonkeys respond to disasters.

Something went wrong. Terribly wrong. The csbmonkey is there to survey the aftemath and deliver the news. Bad news. Good news. No news. The facts. The truth.

The csbmonkey becomes comforter, psychologist, and counselor.

The csbmonkey has seen and heard many things. Many disasters. The protestations of innocence in the face of hammer clawed laptops and pitch-perfect baseball style delivery of computer parts to walls, floors and ceilings. The sticky residue of corn syrup sweetened beverages. The smell of dried coffee. Crumbs. Full sized french fries lodged just beyond the visual acuity for those that don’t know where to look. Cracks in glass and plastic. Blood.

We become detectives. Judge. Jury. It is against our nature to execute, of course, although we certainly have a few happy fantasies when our jury delivers the verdict. Guilty. What, again, exactly were the accusations? Ignorance? Lying? Murder? Reckless computing? Entrusting one’s life to a magic box?

All of the above.

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

The verdict only takes a few minutes to reach. (Usually.) Then the csbmonkey comes through to deliver the bad news or, perhaps, the good news? It might be both. It might be the facts. It might be the truth.

All of the above.

We’ve been found guilty of believing in that which we are unable to distinguish from magic. We believe in it. We believe in the fantasies about it. The fantasies that we were promised and the fantasies we created. What is our sentence? Our punishment? The inability to resurrect on our own. The need for special knowledge. The need for doctors, lawyers, electricians, plumbers, butchers, biologists, engineers, help desk technicians… csbmonkeys all.