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Project management is all about making good predictions. For some reason, it's something I've been rather good at over the years, even though there's quite a bit of black magic involved.

Sometimes you can be too good.

In early December, my wife was complaining that we never got any snow in Virginia. "When are we really going to get some good winter weather? I don't like living here."

For some crazy reason I was feeling my oats that day, so I stood up and made a faux-important announcement.

"I predict that we will have a good winter storm one day next month," I rubbed my head for effect, "Hmmm. I also predict that it will happen on January 17th! The oracle has spoken!"

Melissa rolled her eyes and made a sound like harrrummph.

So today here it is, January 17th. At home there's 5 inches of snow on the ground with some ice on the way. I'm sitting in an airport in Illinois waiting for a flight into Chicago O'Hare. It looks like my entire day is wasted. Best guess is that _might_ make it home by 1am or so.

All of Melissa's friends now want me to help them with the lottery.

Be careful what you predict.

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