MOTM

If you expect it to arrive ( "it" might be a Synthesis Technology 440, 
but really it doesn't much matter what "it is,) and you frequent the 
post office, hoping for a little yellow slip in your box, it is never 
there. It deosn't show up until you get sick of cursing whatever is 
near enough to hurl epithets at. You have to just forget about it 
entirely, then it is there. As long as you actively desire the darned 
thing, darned if it doesn't take it's time. And time is all you're left 
with, time to post long rambling diatribes, contemplate flux and how it 
relates to solder as well as gaussian surfaces, maybe even eat dinner. 
Paul

pow333@... writes:

>>If you expect it to arrive ( "it" might be a Synthesis Technology 440, but 
really it doesn't much matter what "it is,) and you frequent the post office, 
hoping for a little yellow slip in your box, it is never there. ... You have 
to just forget about it entirely, then it is there. As long as you actively 
desire the darned thing, darned if it doesn't take it's time.<<

This is the "A watched pot never boils" phenomena.  I've experienced it many 
times, but have used it to my advantage.  For instance, UPS would usually 
show up at my house when I was on the toilet.  One day I got tired of 
waiting, so I figured I'd go up and sit on the toilet, and sure enough, I 
hear the UPS truck pull into my driveway.  The laws of physics can be 
controlled.

-Elhardt