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So today a Dell engineer will come to replace my SSD (and motherboard, if necessary) and take the old hardware back.
He'll be here between 08:00 and 17:00, which is quite a time slot 
I don't really want to do a lot of work since I've got everything backed up now, but any work I do will not be backed up immediately and it requires me to install some software that I'll have to reinstall later today (or tomorrow, depending on what time he's here).
So I am now faced with what's probably some law:
If I start now the engineer will be here as soon as I've installed everything and am just beginning to get to work.
Or I could do nothing and he'll be here at 17:00 
On a positive note, a customer just approved a new project which I get to do so there'll be plenty of work for the rest of the month (and probably next month too) 
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It's a physical law, I suspect: we used to call it "taxifagging". As soon as you give in and light up a cigarette the taxi will finally show up ... unless you light up just to get it there faster ...
I no longer smoke, and as a result, I no longer use taxis either.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This works with city buses, too. I do use this trick, a lot.
while (!(success = Try()));
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I first demonstrated this technique, and subsequently perfected it, at the airport luggage carousel, back when you could smoke in an airport. Get to the carousel, light a fag, and my case would always be first out. A win, all for the price of a fag, which would have been duty-free anyway. 
Of course, this might have been because my employer graciously paid for me to fly first class. 
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Lighting a fag in the US is considered a hate crime.
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Lighting a fag at Eton or Harrow is rather frowned on too, although beating them is considered acceptable. 
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The difference between smoking a fag in Britain and smoking a fag in America is considerable jail time 
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So I guess I'll call it Dellworking today
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OriginalGriff wrote: I no longer smoke, and as a result, I no longer use taxis either.
Genuinely curious: How does one lead to the other?
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Without cigarettes, the taxi will never arrive. Which means I must make my arrangements as if taxis no longer exist.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Gotcha. Murphy's Law and all of that. Just like I can solve a drought by washing my car.
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If it's any consolation, I've much the same dilemma tomorrow: my electricity meter is being changed, which means no power for an hour or so ... and my UPS is dead.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So instead of UPS you are having DOWNS 
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OriginalGriff wrote: If it's any consolation
Unfortunately, your future misery is no consolation for my current misery
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OriginalGriff wrote: and my UPS is dead
Condolences, but despite your grief you could try FedEx.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Not sure I can cope with that again: it took three physical deliveries to get one that worked on arrival last time. Couriers don't like heavy stuff, and generally drop it, a lot.
UPS are the worst, in my experience - I've yet to have a single package delivered by them in a condition which didn't mean full photographic documentation while opening. It seems that you desperately need decoy outer packaging for them to use as a football / ladder / chair while the inner packaging remains relatively intact*. Festooning packages with "FRAGILE" tape is obviously just seen as a challenge ...
* It's the "crumple zone" technique for parcels.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: no power for an hour or so ... and my UPS is dead
Two proofs of Murphy's law in a single CP thread?
Impressive.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They called it an engineer!?
What a load.
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Could be worse. If he had a Mac, the technician would be called a "genius".
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It may take patience.
My kid didn't give up until he was sixteen.
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The kid loves the school (after 3 full day)!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Like all problems, leave it, it'll sort itself!
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If the kid's a little nerd: Don't do anything. Later on, when the bullies notice that he's smarter than them, you might need to teach him how to knock someone out of his shirt. That's all.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: How should I fix it?
I guess this will require a lot of duct-tape.
while (!(success = Try()));
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In my observation, over the years school has been deliberately made more fun.
Don't worry too much about learning unpleasant things - and watch some movies - every week - and learn from them . . .
The kids are happy because, more and more it's becoming a hang-out with buddies and less and less a place where you need to be quite and learn things you will need some day even though it doesn't seem like it now and you really don't want to.
Don't worry - (ahem).
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