When all the ‘bling’ goes on the blink. Why is it that when one thing goes wrong more will follow suit, like a domino effect or is it ‘Murphy’s law’.

A washing machine is “necessary” luxury, in other words bling. Well, mine decided to turn the jet engines to propellers.

While taking this image it struck me how futuristic it looks and how these appliances have evolved over the years. What is even more mind boggling is that repairing will cost nearly as much as getting a new machine…

So the next thing that goes on the blink is the good old fashioned telephone. Classified as luxury, bling because a large number of people do not have access to this necessary facility of communication.

6 days,…Telkom, who is still the main monopoly, decided to finally send a’ technician’. The most frustrating process, even with all the technology at bay, when the line is dead. What eventually sparked was to physically be with a consultant at their offices and place the long awaiting process into action. People with time constraints must find this very medieval. Hearing a dialling tone though…, wow what can I say.

The Internet, or rather the access to it, is really the biggest puzzle of them all.
To try and resolve a PC problem with the guidance of the service provider, with the absence of a landline was quite consuming. Needless to say the precious, costly, bling bandwidth still gets chewed on at sporadic intervals as soon as connection commences, hence the long absence.

And this is for all the damn spywares , spams, cookies, malware, viruses etc, bunch of piranhas ‘tagging’ along the main sharks, chew them , delete them…

Handpainted on a puddle platter, earthenware by Anja

In the same time frame the president decides to resign. [Go on blink]. Was showing off all that bling of a navy fleet, a story behind the story, one of the last straws ? [previous post]

And somewhere between all this bling on blink it’s officially spring, cold, wet and snow caps. The equinox, more tilt to the sun of the earth’s axis, please don’t go on the blink…