Decline and fall
Hadn’t realised how much I’d been pinning my communication hopes on getting some kind of mobile always-on connection: yesterday’s ‘Declined‘ seems to have triggered my first serious downer for months.
To put it simply, I hate being out of touch with the few people I know with any real depth. I hate the shallowness and vapidity of cities, and its extreme epitome in the verbal diarrheoa of junk-radio and visual diarrhoea of junk-television, which seem so inescapable in any city. And with a mind-numbing commute – more than a hour each way of unusable dead-time – and the sheer struggle as an enterprise-architect of trying to get to grips with the entire structure and activity of yet another large, complex, confusing, confused multi-thousand-person organisation, I’m too exhausted at the end of the day to do any of my own work. It’s finally getting me down. For the first time since I came here, two months ago, I can feel that my sense of humour has “suddenly and silently vanished away”, to quote the Snark. Just another drudge, getting ready to trudge off to work at an ungodly time of the morning, in what is now my third winter in a row.
With the combination of slow dial-up and inner slump, expect further absences for a while, till I sort this mess out. Apologies to all.
I will be out in Ashfield Wed or Thursday and you can tell me more stories about the models of barter/transactions and how it fails/succeed in the true sense of the global economy. I know your day is full of enterprise architecture, but make sure you remind yourself to have a bit of time to spare to write your screenplays.
Yes, it is because of the city living, and it’s blinkered with the way people intereact. Very boring!!! But, this is not how we know you Tom, people just forget to tell you what a wonderful job you’re doing! Catch up soon!