Dev Blogs
If you don't need something any more, then you usually don't really care when it gets taken away.
Becoming part of the system.
You can peek at the handle hiding inside the synchronization interface.
Trying not to hang when the server is hung.
Just checking in on how things are going.
Waiting a little while, but not forever.
Simply losing interest.
Letting things run on their own, and then coming back for the answer later.
Keeping the controlling unknown in the know.
Putting your thumb on the scale.