Murphy's Law - is it only me ???

The day started off with great news - the 0815 daily recurring meeting has been cancelled with immediate effect - what a relief , the last minute scramble for the telecon number and the passcode can take rest , no more sprinting of the last lap of my morning jog- so that I am by all means ready (shaved and dressed with a tie & smile ..) before the telecon and for the 0830 carpooling with my friend ..

A day's menu is always sprinkled with all recipes - its not always sweet or sour !! By noon we had an all important 'effort planning for all resources' to be updated into our database. I made all preliminary calculations and had the resource and effort estimate and was ready to get it done ..

We being great S/W engineers had much faith on the stress testing done on the tool - but once our updates were ready after 2 hours of mix & matches and when the magic button 'SAVE' was clicked - there was a software silence (when one of ur tasks gulps down 99% of ur CPU) and we waited for that miracle to happen but to our dismay murphy's law prevailed - giving it almost a 100% success rate ... the updates didnt happen and when it was almost needed very importantly..

During da drive back home - all through the freeway - my thoughts raced on who is this Murphy guy and how come his law is 100% successful whereas even Newton's had exceptions ..So I hit upon my shoot-me-ur-Q secretary Ms.Wiki and got the below answer :

"Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that if anything can go wrong, it will. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way" or, "Anything that can go wrong, will," or "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"). The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod's law or Finagle's law which can also be rendered as "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment".

Murphy has made me cut sorry faces many times - I can remember a couple of times in recent past - There was an all important monthly meet which I was to report at 0800 so had made all arrangements and when I was about to get into my car the fuel gauge was down below abnormal so made up my mind and went into the nearest gas station but it was locked down for renovation (Murphyyyyyyyyyyyyy plans perfect...) and then my car died in the nearby lane and had to wait for my lazy - 0930 - office - going - frnd to give me a lift and miss my meeting @@@@@@@

Next super event was when I wanted to do a status check on my DL, required my passport . I made the discovery that I had misplaced (or rather put it out somewhere so safe that noone including me could find it) my passport and after thoroughly searching all over the places I had been and in the new apt i moved to - had to look for options of getting it renewed and visa stamped.. I checked the official website of the consulate in chicago and they had around 10 numbers listed , tried each of those and I got the same audio message . Then I tried calling my home to send me the copies , the phone rang a countless times but no one picked it up(Mr.M had cut the bsnl lines in India too .., what thorough planning)..
Murphy - u the man !!!