It's always interesting when unusual things happen...

* I was playing nickel-dime-quarter poker one evening. At the end of the night, I scooped all my change off of the table and without looking, dropped it onto the carpet at my feet (we were in a hotel, and the carpet was the typical super-dense industrial-strength stuff you see). One of the nickels landed on its edge & stayed, with no other coins around to support it.

* I was sitting at my desk (I'm a cubicle-droid), and the fellow across the hall was talking to some internal computer tech. I wasn't really listening to his conversation - "blah blah blah..." - and then, out of nowhere, he says *my* computer password. We talked afterwards, we both, for years, had used the password "thx1139". As you may know, thx1138 was George Lucas' first feature-length film (it was also the license plate of the hot rod in American Graffitti). Both my friend and I had started with that, and then added one to the number, because no one would ever think of that! Strange... I said "Do you have the other half of this amulet"? We have since both changed our passwords to something that, I'm sure, absolutely no one would ever think of!

* A few months ago, I got email from someone named "Dave Boll". Now, my first name is very common, but it's not like my last name is "Smith" or anything. He said he had a BS in Physics from '85 (er, same here), worked as a computer geek (guilty), and just bought an 8" telescope (if you've visited other parts of my page, you know that's another interest of mine). I shoulda asked him if his password was "thx1139".