1 Thursday.
2 Garbage Day.
3 At least over in my parts.
4 This is the third consecutive Thursday that I mentioned Garbage Day.
5 That's why I capitalized it.
6 Round here that's a big night.
7 To me mentioning it in the DN saves me the time I would have spent putting it in my laptop notes.
8 Ah the joys of galloping into madness.
9 fkdfadfdkjdfjdfkjlf.
10 Want in on a secret?
11 I thought last night was Thursday.
12 Wishful thinking.
13 Moving On, Part One: Speaking of thinking, I've been doing a lot of it lately.
14 This is always dangerous.
15 Yesterday I thought that human beings were designed to hibernate this time of the year.
16 Makes sense to me.
17 To test the pulse, I took a stroll down Facebook Street yesterday.
18 You don't hear a lot of cheering about people getting up and going to work.
19 You don't hear a lot of cheering about people getting up and going to school.
20 If someone has the day off, they talk about cuddling under a large comforter and going back to sleep.
21 I wonder if human beings were once bears?
22 Anyhow that's part of what I was thinking yesterday.
23 Moving On, Part Two: The other night I had written a DN all about recent coincidences.
24 The thing that happened was what ALWAYS happens when I write about coincidences: they occur more frequently as I write.
25 Two nights ago I wrote about coincidences and just as I was ready to put the DN to bed, a commercial came on TCM. It was an old ad campaign for the film The Great Waltz, all about Strauss.
26 I wrote the words "The Blue Danube" at the exact moment it played.
27 This followed with an ad for The Time Machine, complete with commentary from leading actor and protagonist Rod Taylor.
28 The trouble was my DN already had several coincidences, and these additional coincidences compounded it.
29 I decided yesterday morning to deep six that DN, because NOBODY really cares about rapid-fire coincidences. I care because it happens despite ridiculous odds, and because it happens constantly.
30 I liken it to the Cole character in The Sixth Sense. Unless it happens to you personally, nobody gets it.
31 Something like that.
32 I enjoy it. I enjoy that pictures from The Time Machine danced live at me the other night just as I was ready to turn in. It was as though someone had animated the DN.
33 So yesterday I didn't bother printing that one. I might sneak it in on Saturday or something, just for the curious.
34 I will say this: I decided to take a lunch time stroll yesterday. I walked down my hallway and this girl looked up at me. I had on my favorite hat, slanted just so.
35 "Cool hat!" she said. I smiled.
36 "Know what it reminds me of?"
37 I smiled again. "Nope."
38 "It reminds me of that old movie The Time Machine and that guy, what was his name?"
39 I stared. My mind went blank. This happens more and more. I shook my head slightly. I thought "Best coincidence of the year and you can't remember the guy's name even though you JUST watched it."
40 "Robert Wagner," I said. I added, "I think..." Another teacher heard me and smiled.
41 That kick went wide.
42 It drove me crazy. I finally looked it up on my cell and instantly remembered Rod Taylor from the night before.
43 All that psychic training for nix.
44 Ah well.
45 I still thought it was cool that she brought The Time Machine up. Nice kid, good spirited. The whole thing made me smile.
46 Last night I turned off the teevee when I wrote this.
47 I didn't know if I could take any more coincidences.
48 So I looked at a blue screen that kept putting up floating ads that said Press OK to watch TV.
49 I ain't pressin' nuttin'!
50 I'm pressin' my luck if I don't duck outta here.
51 Happy Garbage Day.
52 We'll see you again.
53 Peace.
~H~
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