Three Quick Anecdotes for Today

Good luck: Twice in the last week, I've been given good luck by kitties!!! They say it's tremendous luck to find a cat's whisker and I've never ever found one before (seen other people find them, though.). Last Saturday Ein gave me a whisker when I was over at Alex's and last night I found one of Rupert's in the bed! I've never had so much kitty luck before, I feel really... um, lucky? I'm kind of leery though. Are the kitties saying, "Here's some luck... You're gonna need it!!!"

Compact Train: I was late to class again this morning (as usual) and I almost made myself later stopping to gawk underneath the train bridge. There was the strangest little contraption chugging by on the tracks, a little mini-train not much taller than a person. It was only one car long and quite square, with a little "caboose" tugging along behind it (like a trailer behind a car). There were two guys driving it along, sitting and looking out the rather large windows. I wonder what the hell it was?

Serendipity: Remember when I told you about Dale the winemaker in Belize? No, you probably weren't reading that. Anyway, most of the people we met from the US while in Belize were from the Pacific Northwest. Particularly ironic was the the fellow in the room next to us on our tiny island was from Portland. His name was Dale and he was there with a girlfriend for Christmas and New Years. I think we were there for the exact same length of time. Dale told us he made wine and sold it in Oregon under the Ken Wright label. Mostly Pinot Noirs for about $40 a bottle. He was pleased to know I'd lived near Sundance, he apparently knows the chaps over there really well. Anywho, the point is that when I went into work today Duncan was wearing a Ken Wright Cellars shirt and I though the label sounded familiar so I asked him if he knew a Dale and he said, "yeah, I worked with him!" I laughed. It's a small, small, world. Everyone got a kick out of that story.

And in closing, a random thought: I've discovered that it's both exceedingly hard to whistle techno songs and you sound really stupid trying to do it. Why won't they get out of my head?