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RELIABILITY
Thursday Dec. 1, 2011
column written/ published from my residence in Cranston (SE Calgary) near the Bow River valley
Morning walk: 2C/36F, clear and calm, wet snow melting a bit with similar warm days predicted till middle of next week; Gusta keeping up relations with that black lab pup again, both wanting to play, both with owners straining on the reigns . . .
Calendar page flipped, month end came. And went.
November didn’t expire, it evaporated.
Exists no more.
With it, all angst hanging ’round disappeared.
Not entirely, because I’m on the hunt for new digs.
Time is wasting . . . but that’s not my only challenge today.
Having two or three of anything – computers, modems, phones, toilets – and the attendant comfort those redundant systems afford is like living in a place with three bathrooms.
In the end, you only need one to be working.
When water evaporates it doesn’t disappear. It just changes form. It might be here, or somewhere else – I don’t know.
I believe it still exists but I can’t locate it, but I am confident this water cycle keeps all of us alive on an earth where we thrive because of it, dependent upon it.
Same for eco systems, weather systems and biological systems; but when it comes to human-made systems, my confidence/reliance level is faltering.
My day starts, and focuses, on two human-made problems where things are evaporating – and not showing up again.
If we believe quantum physicists, that lost energy or work shows up somewhere on the planet, but it doesn’t seem to re-appear here where I need it.
Telecom/internet technology, when it works perfectly is like those toilets that flush properly – you know everything is there, reliable and you count on it to work without fail.
Surprise internet outages of indeterminate length are like having a landlord who promises, but never sends, a plumber to fix what is broken.
Improvisation is required in the interim.
I know I made more phone calls than usual yesterday and, it appears, I’ll do more of the same today because writing an email only to have it evaporate before my eyes again is just not my idea of tech-magic.
But when it isn’t working – it become sole focus of angst/attention, because so much of what we do to simply check the weather, check the news, check our in-box or start our work day is dependent upon it.
The more I try to organize to live without immediate internet access, I realize I’ve become more reliant on it than phones, reliable newspaper delivery and plumbing that works.
Modem lights blinking indicates that service provider Shaw is having trouble again this morning – as I await a solid green ONLINE light that lasts more than a minute.
But I digress . . .
Back to my needs (my landlord has elected to move back into this townhouse condo); my criteria include Gusta-friendly landlord (not so easy it seems) offering reasonably priced accommodation in a good location, reliable internet service . . . . and toilets (at least one) that works reliably.
First days of new months are a shot in the arm, a kick in the pants - fresh air pumped into my lungs . . . and recollection of November is fading fast.
Better post this now – quickly – before internet service access evaporates again . . .
Mark Kolke
307,676
P.S.: when my current landlord moves back in, I wonder if he’ll get the same quality/speed of plumbing service his father provided to me?
Comments Received:
NO THING BETTER
The ‘cure’ for your toe/foot is Alfalfa Complex….from Shaklee….not Alpha Complex. There could be a big difference taking Alpha Complex in that when I Googled it……no mention at all of pain relief. Two different ‘things’, I believe, BM, Calgary, AB
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