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It was Iris and Carl and they wanted answers.

“Okay, Coach,” said Iris tensely, “how can we make sure this never, ever happens again?”

“Yeah,” said Carl, who still sounded a bit shell-shocked. “Talk about Murphy’s Law. Anything that could go wrong did go wrong!”

“Iris and Carl,” I said calmly, “I have a new law for you. The Hamster Virtual Meeting Law: Everything will fail.”

“That’s real snappy,” said Iris, sounding more than a bit irritated.

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“And upbeat,” noted Carl sarcastically. “You must be a hoot at parties. Seriously though, there was nothing I could’ve done to prevent all those technical problems.”

“Oh, no?” I asked. “If you had expected things to go wrong you probably would have taken corrective ...

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