I was applying the Secret a few days ago - and asked for unexpected income... It worked!
I last blogged about this nearly a year ago, I was just contacted again by The One's colleague. Since it's quite rushed, I will ask for a upfront payment of $2K by cheque, before I agree to the job.
It's a relatively simple job for me when I did it a year ago. Configuring remote printers on Solaris 9 or 10, running on SPARC machines...