Plus I have a zit on my chin

[resonant]

I think the universe is messing with me. I don't know how else to explain all the minor stressors coming up one after another.

First it was the house: The washing machine was leaking, and then it fixed itself. The microwave was tripping the circuit breaker, and then that fixed itself. The water heater, alas, did not fix itself.

Then my parents came up with a scheme for my mother's birthday that required us to fly down, stay two days, and fly back up -- a trip too short even to bother to reset my watch.

Then it was the computer; AT&T's one and only local access number went down and stayed down for ten days.

And just about the time it went back up, my car refused to start.

You know what my theory is? I think I'm being recalibrated. Or possibly beta-tested.

So! None of these are major enough to require sympathy, but I'd love it if you'd tell me a joke.

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[giglet.livejournal.com]

I (as a physics student) learned a slightly different version of this:

First night: Fire breaks out. Engineer grabs a fire extinguisher and puts it out.

Second night: Fire breaks out. Physicist thinks that the fire extinguisher is probably the right solution, but quickly scrambles for his sliderule/laptop, and solves enough of the flammability problem from first principles to rule out other solutions. He grabs the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire (which has caused much more damage than it did the first night).

Third night: Fire breaks out. Mathematician sees it, remembers what the other two did, and goes back to sleep, since he's reduced it to a problem already solved.