While repairing my LCD monitor, I took off my glasses so as to be able to see better close up as I'm VERY short sighted and even the vari-focals my optician prescribes can no longer get me close enough to solder properly. Without them on, I can focus VERY close but the range is VERY short, being just a few inches. So I completed the work involving a few stages without putting the glasses back on just to save time but, when I went to grope around and try to find them, I could not. So where did I put the blessed things, and after a period of serious extended "looking" around, blind panic started to set in. What the dickens had I done with them! So I ended up shuffling out of the workshop, through the house, stumbling over the dogs, and up to the bedroom to, eventually, find my spare pair. On my return to the workshop I still could not find the glasses looked everywhere. A cup of tea ensued and I took a less panicky search only to find they had fallen down the back of some gear, or maybe it was the fairies at the bottom of my garden which had done it. I concluded that in my "blinded" state of putting them down in the first place, I had obviously chosen an poor "safe" place.
After this I got to thinking and wondered if there is perhaps something darker happening here. My current theory is that there is something called a Lost Wormhole which moves around randomly and removes items from there current place, setting them down in some completely different dimension. So the chances of loosing something increases in proportion to the time that the item is left somewhere due to the increased probability of it being "borrowed" by the LW. Now, all is not lost as the LW is a two way pipe and so eventually your lost item will be dropped back somewhere in your vicinity but probably not where you thought you had left it. To my mind, this seems to fit my experience of the way the World seems to work and I'm sure there is some law here. For the humour challenged, this message is :) rated. Please feel free to comment on my theory but perhaps this should be via PM. Thank you for your time, Steve -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Einstein _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
