October 7, 2009
-
And so it begins...1 It's October, and people what knows me knows what that means. Ah, the ultimate insomnia.
2 Watching Oprah at 1:40 a.m. Some show about a little kid who is shizophrenic.
3 Let's back it up.
4 The first day of school I had signed up to supervise at a volleyball game last night. I figured it would go to around 7 or 8 p.m. and then I would have done my duty.
5 Turns out it was a classic battle between Leland and EV, which EV eventually won, but at around 8:45 at night.
6 Got home ridiculously late, tired, exhausted, but in good shape because I had brought a buncha papers to the game and graded as I watched. I imagine that's a little rude, but I've grown accustomed to grading papers at social affairs, baseball games, football games, and even The World Series of Poker, which is a sport, don't you know.
7 Yeesh.
8 Anyway, I wrote a bit of a hit piece on the ridiculousness of Michael Crabtree, the 49ers' sterling holdout/moron, whose idiotic story brought in MC Hammer to the Santa Clara negotiations last night.
9 I won't even go there now, because I had a picture of Hammer with a fat cigar and bling, but the words wouldn't fit into a caption, since it's always at times like that we are suddenly hit with computers that take on a mind of their own.
10 Some odd force seized my computer last night, so that whatever I used would not work, and the fonts, passwords, and everything else went wonky.
11 I glanced at the Oprah show, and suddenly, right when I placed item number 10, the parents of that kid started talking about ghosts.
12 I KNEW it.
13 It's October, of course!
14 I haven't really even given October a thought this year, as I've been in a recent race to get all my grading done by Friday. Ain't gonna happen, but I'm WAY ahead of any year ever, so much so that I forgot all about the ghost thing that hits every single October.
15 Ah, vell. I guess I'm ready for it, but to me, it seems a bit too early for all this nonsense to begin once again.
16 So I guess whatever seems to be haunting me never wanted the DN I wrote about three hours ago to go to "press". I dozed, awakened, opened it up again, and at that point, nothing worked. Pictures wouldn't center, captions turned huge, different search engines malfunctioned, and fonts changed form.
17 So at 1:40 a.m. I decided simply to deep-six what I had written, and write this during an Oprah show that seemed focused on shizophrenia in children, only to change later to a piece that is about ghosts.
18 Yeesh.
19 I'm just not quite ready to start in on coincidences and all that stuff that starts flying at me this time of the year.
20 Which is fun, in an interesting sort of way, because I'm pretty much at the mercy of this nonsense not just at Halloween time, but often when I'm under a buncha stress.
21 Those new to this, well...ah LOT of DN readers out there have experienced a LOT of this stuff with me over the years.
22 It's always a lark to me, and yet I always wonder about all the coincidences that occur in my life on such a consistent level.
23 As I said, I'm not quite equipped tonight to even give a surface analysis of it all, but if you're new to it all, just smile and humor this Old Brown Shoe.
24 I'll report coincidences for the next few weeks as they occur. And trust me, they will. The very fact that the computer went wonky tonight, followed by the Oprah show shifting focus from shizophrenia to ghosts is a clear beginning.
25 All I can say is, my world, and welcome to it.
26 Happy October. Looks like it's gonna be yet one more amazing ride!
27 Get a helmet.
28 Gottago. My black cat is howling.
29 More to come, I'm quite certain. As of this writing, AOL had a headline about Heidi Klum, and then neither MSN nor Mozilla would allow me access. Today's DN can't go out to it's classic subscribers. I'll sleep and try again in the morning. I tried launching it five minutes ago and it wouldn't allow it. Never happened before, ever. so hold onto your hats. This may be quite a ride!
30 Stay tuned; this will be the first October that I will be on Facebook, and where many of the people who went through the exact things I've reported over theyears will corroborate many of the stories.
31 So thanks Heidi, or whoever you are. You've got our attention. The world awaits.
32 Peace.
~H~
Recent Comments