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• Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.
  -- Dan Salomo...
• VACATION: A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate.
• You heard me. I won't be in for the rest of the week .
  .. I told you. My baby beat me up ... Oh, it is not the worst excuse I ever thought up....
• Avoid penguins.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter and you directly wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD algorithm to avoid a re-collision.
• Last week's pet, this week's special.
• You heard me, I won't be in for the rest of the week.
  ... I told you! My baby beat me up! ... No, it is not the worst excuse I ever thought up....
• Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. Gaelic Proverb