(I'm going to throw in some cute pictures of Tommi to make the blog more colorful. 1 more sentence about him. He has taken over the window and is still eagerly producing blossoms and tomatoes--in November..wow.)
I was sure there was a metaphor in there..I was just sitting on the couch and my computer started complaining of low battery. First there was the warning sign and then the 'Okay-I'm-going-to-go-into-sleep-mode-like---now'. But of course after that there is a short (but it feels variable?) amount of time during which you can still plug it in and be fine.
Side note: I notice that I am mostly operating on the assumption that battery life is extended when you first let it get very low and then recharge, instead of recharging in the middle. The second method supposedly reduces the total amount of battery life. (I believe my mom told me this in context of our wireless phones? Then again I wonder if we can even really tell..I could extend that skepticism to several other claims..but I won't right now. Perhaps later)
Anyway, on the couch + warning signs. Then the screen went black. And I looked over and realized the cord was hanging over the arm of the couch, less than 5 cm from my arm.
Umm...Okay, that would've been so easy. Just like we sometimes get warning signals and it would actually be so easy to turn to the Lord---but we don't. Even though he "stands and the door and knocks". Or it would be easy for us to ask for help from someone--yes, we'd have to overcome our pride, but it really would be better if we did! Or overcome our philosophies (such as my battery life philosophy--I still hold to it, though I'm not sure if it has been proven or just conceptualized and passed around)
Then to add another wrinkle to this metaphor--I plugged it in. Then pushed the power button so that it could fully power down, like it normally does, and then pushed it again so then it could power up and I could write about this ironic experience :P...but no amount of pushing did anything. The little lights kept blinking. The laptop didn't power down..but it also didn't power up (?)...Straaange.
Then I remembered that I had unplugged the cord, so as not to have the transformer sucking electricity (another of my thrifty philosophies, also from my parents I think :) ). Then I tried to figure out what that part of the metaphor was telling me--something entirely different:
Sometimes, what appears to be the easy solution is no solution at all. Or that the easy solution is not the best one..but in this particular case, plugging in one end of the cable (oops! German...I mean 'cord') really did nothing to help my computer.
(Hmm..unless there was a small power reserve in the converter that was then able to reach my laptop?..don't have any established philosophies on that one...so we'll just say the jury is still out, case still undecided :) )
Anyway, as another blogger suggested, here are some questions to consider / answer if you desire:
I was sure there was a metaphor in there..I was just sitting on the couch and my computer started complaining of low battery. First there was the warning sign and then the 'Okay-I'm-going-to-go-into-sleep-mode-like---now'. But of course after that there is a short (but it feels variable?) amount of time during which you can still plug it in and be fine.
Side note: I notice that I am mostly operating on the assumption that battery life is extended when you first let it get very low and then recharge, instead of recharging in the middle. The second method supposedly reduces the total amount of battery life. (I believe my mom told me this in context of our wireless phones? Then again I wonder if we can even really tell..I could extend that skepticism to several other claims..but I won't right now. Perhaps later)
Umm...Okay, that would've been so easy. Just like we sometimes get warning signals and it would actually be so easy to turn to the Lord---but we don't. Even though he "stands and the door and knocks". Or it would be easy for us to ask for help from someone--yes, we'd have to overcome our pride, but it really would be better if we did! Or overcome our philosophies (such as my battery life philosophy--I still hold to it, though I'm not sure if it has been proven or just conceptualized and passed around)
Then to add another wrinkle to this metaphor--I plugged it in. Then pushed the power button so that it could fully power down, like it normally does, and then pushed it again so then it could power up and I could write about this ironic experience :P...but no amount of pushing did anything. The little lights kept blinking. The laptop didn't power down..but it also didn't power up (?)...Straaange.
Sometimes, what appears to be the easy solution is no solution at all. Or that the easy solution is not the best one..but in this particular case, plugging in one end of the cable (oops! German...I mean 'cord') really did nothing to help my computer.
(Hmm..unless there was a small power reserve in the converter that was then able to reach my laptop?..don't have any established philosophies on that one...so we'll just say the jury is still out, case still undecided :) )
Anyway, as another blogger suggested, here are some questions to consider / answer if you desire:
- What are other metaphors that could be pulled out of this experience?
- Do you have any more metaphors about or using electricity?
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