Election
Labor won the state election. Wow. What a surprise there. Never would have predicted that.

Cricket
Australia won the cricket. Wow. What a surprise there. Never would have predicted that.

Happy Clients
(on the telephone)

Client: ...and we had to disconnect and move all the equipment because of flash flooding last week. Since that time we haven't been able to print.

Me: Okay. I can try to connect in to the machine and see if there's anything obviously amiss. You've got a login for me? Great. (scribbles notes and invokes ssh) Okay, give me a moment.

pause

Me: It looks like the printer is alive and on the network, but the print spooling process didn't start up cleanly. I'll just nudge it along. There we go. Your printer sho...

Client: It's printing! It's printing! (Cheers in background.)

Me: Oh good. I'm glad to hear that fixed it.

Client: It stopped.

Me: Looks like a paper jam to me.

Client: You're right. It is a paper-jam! How did you know that? Are you in the matrix?

Me: That's right. There is no spoon. Oh good, you've cleared the jam. Anything else I can help with?

Client: Nothing else urgent. That was fantastic. I never dreamed you'd be able to fix our printer over the phone. I'll tell you now, the smiles here are worth a million dollars.

Me: Oh good, because I'm only going to charge you the bargin price of $750,000.

Client: Um... Can we do that in installments?