Dumb Luck Day
02-Mar-10
An event cascade refers a series of events or failures that all contribute to an outcome (usually a bad one). Plane crashes, for instance, require a long line of failures reinforcing and magnifying each other. Without any one of the failures, you don’t end up with a crash, it requires an entire cascade of events.
I had one of those days that had the potential to spin out of control and crash, but through dumb luck each problem mostly resolved itself before the next one started, and by 10am, everything was peachy. It’s not so often that crises are so considerate with their timing.
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No coffee…totally my fault.
At 6am, the garage door refused to open.
Torrential rain made the normally light traffic ridiculously heavy. These first two make me late for my first appointment of the day.
(side bar: my passenger side window is half open because it slid off the tracks yesterday)
I hopped on the newly wrapped BigFix shuttle bus (which Rassak designed – photos ) to make sure everything was going smoothly.
As soon as we start moving, I realize I forgot my phone in the car.
Half way across town, I caught a cab back, but didn’t have cash, so I made the cab swing though the drive-up ATM.
As I approach my car door, I can see my phone ringing…major production emergency, but disaster is avoided.
I arrive at the office and realize that since I’ve been driving my wife’s car all week, my office key s on my other key ring. Luckily, my studio-mates are already there.
