[time-nuts] OT loosing things

[Don Latham]

It's called a sequential vortex...
Don

Rob Kimberley
> Reminds me of a story someone once told me....
>
> This is how it goes:
>
> I decide to water my garden.
>
> As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it
> needs washing.
>
> As I head towards the garage, I notice post on the porch table that I
> picked
> up from the postman earlier.
>
> I decide to go through it before I wash the car.
>
> I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the recycling box
> under
> the table, and notice that the recycling box is full.
>
> So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the recycling
> first.
>
> But then I think, since I'm going to be near the post-box when I take out
> the recycling paper anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
>
> I take my cheque book off the table and notice that there is only one
> cheque
> left.
>
> My extra cheques are in the desk in my study, so I go into the house to my
> desk where I find the cup of coffee I'd been drinking.
>
> I'm going to look for my cheques but first I need to push the coffee aside
> so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
>
> The coffee is getting cold, and I decide to make another cup.
>
> As I head toward the kitchen with the cold coffee, a vase of flowers on
> the
> worktop catches my eye - the flowers need water.
>
> I put the coffee on the worktop and discover my reading glasses that I've
> been searching for all morning.
>
> I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water
> the
> flowers.
>
> I put the glasses back down on the worktop, fill a container with water
> and
> suddenly spot the TV remote control.  Someone left it on the kitchen
> table.
>
> I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the
> remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide
> to
> put it back where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
>
> I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the
> floor.
>
> So, I put the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the
> spill.
>
> Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
>
> At the end of the day:
> The car isn't washed. The bills aren't paid. There is a cold cup of coffee
> sitting on the kitchen work-surface. The flowers don't have enough water.
> There is still only one cheque in my cheque book, I can't find the remote,
> I
> can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
>
> Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really
> baffled because I know I was busy all bloody day and I'm really tired.
>
> :-)
>
> Rob Kimberley
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike S
> Sent: 13 November 2010 10:57 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT loosing things
>
> At 08:15 PM 11/12/2010, Mike Feher wrote...
>>Relax
>
> GFY
>
>
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