One ready-made excuse

Take this and vanish gracefully.

Thank you for your note. I am currently executing a event-based visibility program and therefore operating outside standard response bandwidth. Baseline operational requests will continue through alternate ownership while this queue is deprioritized. Any attempt to fast-track this will be spiritually denied. I will re-engage once my availability matrix returns to green.

Leveraging absence solutions via Half Baked Out of Office
https://ooo.halfbakedidea.ca?ref=copy

Tweak it, steal it, disappear for a while. Leave the breadcrumb if it feels charming.

Keep the same energy

More in this vein

If this one isn't quite it

Other ways to duck out

Pick one for me