On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:27:08 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > THREE WEEKS is not uncommon for this. I am not joking. Remember, I > > have done it, and so have many others here. It was fun the first > > time, now it is just a major PITA > > Mostly it just provides an opportunity to prove you're too stubborn > for your own good. About 20% of the way through, it's pretty apparent > that giving up and installing from scratch will be a lot faster. At > this point, you've learned most of what you're going to learn, and > it's just a long hard slog the rest of the way. But do you give up > and do a fresh install? No, you keep going "because it's there".
But of course, otherwise you would have wasted that 20% of the time, just don't think about the other 80% you're about to waste. You just need to make it to 50% and you can justify the rest. This reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote "I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." -- Neil Bothwick When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said... "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket And sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."
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