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RE: (meteorobs) Murphy's Law - Leonids 2001



I've got a better Murphy's Law, how about shooting a whole roll of film and
opening the camera to put in another roll and theres no film.  Boy was I
upset with myself.

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> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:15 PM
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> Subject: (meteorobs) Murphy's Law - Leonids 2001
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> Chris Crawford recently wrote of how Murphy hit him. I'm sure many others
> have stories about Murphy's Law striking at the worse possible, or nearly
> the worse possible time.
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>      I had Murphy hit me at around 9:30 UT when the rates were really
> starting to pick up. During a short lull in activity, I decided that
> I'd better switch sides to my tape in my tape recorder, but when I
> bent up in my lounge chair to change the tape side, my lounge chair
> decided to break in half with a jaring crash! @$#%#&#%$! During the
> comotion, my digital watch went flying away into some tall grass.
> At first,
> I started to panic until I remembered that I brought a backup mechanical
> alarm clock just in case, which I had under my now broken in half
> lawn chair.
> I quickly reached under the broken chair and grabed it, while keeping my
> eyes on the sky and remembering what I saw. Soon I was caught up
> and don't
> think I missed any meteors. It's a good thing my wife borrowed the spare
> mechanical clock from David Todd, who ending up saving me from
> the pain of
> no time piece during the Leonid storm. Thanks David! BTW, I also had a
> notebook with paper and pencils in case my tape recorder decided to die.
> This is all proof that it pays to have a back up, and that
> Murphy's Law must
> be kept in mind during important events like the 2001 Leonid Storm.
>
> GWG
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