Today we are going to Muse about serendipity. If this is your first visit, welcome to Musings. If you have been here before, welcome back. Over time we are going to talk about many things: the past, the present, perhaps the future, travel, art, society and more. Wherever my musing takes me. I hope you will come along with me.
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ser·en·dip·i·ty | ˌserənˈdipədē |
noun, the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: a fortunate stroke of serendipity | a series of small serendipities.
We are between holidays and I have just experienced a tortuous serendipity. Having not much else to do at the moment I thought I would share it with you.
In July we were preparing for a several month trip to Mexico. Such a trip requires thoughtful packing and takes time. Among the items I knew I would need were reading glasses (readers). I have two pair I like, one for the newspaper and the other for the computer. I didn’t want to take them both . . . too much stuff. I packed the pair I thought I would least miss if it was lost or broken and put the other in a glasses case.
And off we went to Mexico. The pair I took was misplaced and wasn’t found until we returned home. In the travel it was damaged. Hmmm!
So once we were home I started looking for the other pair . . . nowhere to be found. I knew I put it in a glasses case. Frustrating! I thought I was being so careful. Where the hell did it go?
With one pair missing and one pair damaged the decision was made to order another pair. Shortly, a small box arrived. And in it was this.
I was expecting something else. This did not look like a reading glass case.
But, looks are sometimes misleading.
That’s OK.
About this time I was working at my computer. It and numerous other devices feed into is a rats nest of electric plugs and surge protectors in the chair-well of the credenza next to my desk.
The Big Daddy is this fellow.
It has a backup battery that can power the devices for hours in the event of power failure.
But, you know, a battery has a limited life and just at this time Big Daddy died. When that happens . . . .
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Very distracting. So I had to turn it off, extract the battery and order a new one. These fellows are not found at the grocery store
With Big Daddy out of commission I needed an additional surge protector to accommodate all the things plugged into the rats nest. I only had one more available.
Do you see the little sucker near the left of the work table? The red arrow is a hint.
What you do not see is where the thing is plugged in. The outlet is floor level at the back left corner of the work area. That means in order to retrieve the protector and get it over to the computer area I had to pull the work table out into the room far enough to crawl back there and unplug it.
Do you have any idea how heavy that thing is? The drawers you see are paper files, filled with prints, drawings and supplies. That makes it REAL HEAVY. It takes all my effort to pull that table away from the wall and I am not a small guy.
But I did it.
I left the table partly out into the room so I could get back to the outlet. When the replacement battery arrived, I put everything back as it was before. In the process I pulled the table even further into the room for easier access to the outlet. And I found this:
Serendipity
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