Murphy's Laws

Because I tend to have sudden bouts of paranoia at a Stresstabs-level these days, my officemate MaCris gave me this gut-churning reminder that the worse is yet to come. Wonderful.

Though I'm usually optimistic, here's a dose of pessimism before the Yuletide season absorbs us in a time- and space-warp.

MURPHY'S LAWS
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway. (Bummer.)
6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. (Always.)
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. (I agree!)
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. (Then why's Nature not cooperating with me? I'm a walking flaw!)
10. Mother nature is a bitch. (Ain't we all?)
11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first. (True. Lalo na kapag uwian na.)
13. Every solution breeds new problems.

Murphy's Law of Research
Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Murphy's Law of Copiers
The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.

The Murphy Philosophy
Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.

And finally. Something that will help you determine how haggard you'll be next year.

Four-eye mode

I'm back to being Four-Eyes. After 2 weeks of endlessly working in front of the computer, I've decided to stop using my contact lenses (in the meantime). I fear that my eyes will turn mutinous against me: I am experiencing involuntary movement of my right eyeball, which is really scary. So now, I am relaxing my eyes a bit by wearing eyeglasses.

The next time you see me rolling my eyes, it's not because I'm being nasty or sarcastic. It's just my eyeball's being silly again, asserting its newfound "independence." Pasaway. Mana sa amo.