Thursday, November 10, 2005
Trickle-down
A strange perversion of the trickle-down effect seems to be
happening around me. Trickle-down being the principle that
actions at a macro level have knock-on effects through a system at
increasingly finer scales. It's a term usually applied to such
grand things as macroeconomics or to environmental systems.
However, it seems possible that the current large-scale troubles and
upheavals in my life have induced their own particular form of trickle
down to the domestic scale. Perhaps it is payback time but
the fates are all out of dramatic events so it's the mundane stuff for
me.
Note, the sole of para boot coming loose when out walking in the mud -
at the furthest point from home, of course, and naturally when followed
all the way home by other people. You try walking when it feels
like you've got a boot on one foot and a flipper on the other.. in the
mud... with a dog...
Note, suddenly proclivity of the bathroom light "pull" not to work when
pulled in the customary perpendicular fashion - oh no, it has to be at
about 25deg from the vertical and away from you in order to work now
and even then it's hit and miss.
Note, desktop light choosing to flicker every once in a while in
poltergesit-style fashion. Not simply going off. Not simply
flickering. But more like a kind of Swan Lake dying scene
routine... and then several moments later, it is back to life again.
But still, I am sure there are rational explanations for all the
abovc, most likely involving the words "old", "need" and
"replacing". Sounds familiar.
On a brighter note, snooker is going well...
Posted by Jon at 12:26:09 AM in Musing (23) | Comments (0)
