Having spent another morning at my Mum's trying to answer another question like "Why isn't my printer working?" I admit I considered the option of starting to apply a call-out charge. I did get breakfast so we've called it quits. Anyone that's a troubleshooter for a living must be the most flexible person ever. Whether it's an IT support guy, the paramedic or the fire fighter, they turn up to a random scene and immediately need to make an assessment of the situation before acting accordingly. Maybe the IT guy has a little less urgency... Or at least less riding on his success. No offence to any IT people out there but nobody's going to die if you don't answer the phone!
This made me think... what a way to live! Waking up each morning ready with your life tool kit waiting to see what starts leaking, or what starts breaking down, so you can quickly patch it up before it gets any worse. If you ever heard the story of Noah, or watched Evan Almighty, there's a guy that couldn't afford to take the troubleshoot option. If Noah or Evan had started waiting til the floods came then good luck to them trying to build a giant-zoo-boat neck deep in water!
Despite it being a little odd (bear in mind nobody had even seen a boat let alone an ark before Noah, he could have been building a space ship and nobody would have known any better), Noah and Evan build their lives so that when the floods came they were ready. They were in a position to shoot for trouble.
Floods will come so either bury your head in the day to dayness of life and stock up on gaffa tape, or position yourself so you can look in the distance at the first wave of the next flood and say 'bring it on'!
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