Today I found myself scouring the internet to figure out who this Murphy guy was. I mean to have your human legacy be to be synonymous with stuff going horribly wrong? What do you have to do to be that guy? Apparently you have to see a lot of stuff end up as a catastrophe. It turns out Murphy may be Edward A. Murphy, Jr. an engineer who said, “If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.”
So if there are two ways to enter a garage and one way will result in hitting something in the garage or even the garage itself… you get the idea. This non-scientific approach to pessimism is true more than you might imagine. In fact, the garage example is something I did, hitting the garage, stuff in the garage, narrowly avoiding pets and children. I went in backwards and continue to do so to this day. I think I have the hang of it now.
Outside of slamming into things with a motor vehicle, life has been an interesting collection of events. It has been terribly good. I say terribly, because Dr. Murphy is leaning over my shoulder reminding me that the only good day was today. It was good though. I feel like the writing is coming along nicely. The kids are doing well. The wife has hit her groove in learning. All good things.
Lets hope Murphy was wrong.