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It's Friday the 13th...

Chimera

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How's your luck so far?

I've only been up for 15 minutes and I feel fine. It's a beautiful day and I'm planning on going for a Starbucks on the way to work.

I should be dead by evening.
 
J-No said:
How's your luck so far?

I've only been up for 15 minutes and I feel fine. It's a beautiful day and I'm planning on going for a Starbucks on the way to work.

I should be dead by evening.
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I'm throwing a big birthday party for my wife's 40th birthday at a restaurant this evening. I'm expecting about 3 of the 75 people I invited to actually show up. I may also be dead by evening.
 
I slacked off a bit to check out the beautiful weather with my girlfriend, so I arrived at work a little later than usual. Now I'm working on an analysis that I particularly like and drinking Starbuck's.

Surely this sunrise will be my last.
 
I've managed to survive the day (4.20 pm over here) so far, but I didn't get much work done so it must be the fault of Fri 13th. I forgot to rent a horror movie for the night, once again it must the fault of Fri 13th. I also confess to having made half a bag of Minstrels disappear... also the fault of... hey wait a minute maybe I should ask for the million dollars since I made something disappear!
 
I'm doing a cutover tonight for our company WAN from a frame relay network to point to point IP. Although it will probably only take about 2.5 hours, I'm sure every little thing that doesn't go exactly as expected will be blamed on Friday the 13th by some of the techs I'm going to be working with. I guess I'll just have to bite my tongue and not say anything about how the day doesn't have anything to do with it, but poor customer service on the part of our provider might, which is already an established fact.

Of course, when it is all working fine and ahead of schedule, nobody will give Friday the 13th the credit for that.

I got my paycheck today too. And there's a bonus in it.

An account rep for a vendor we work with is taking us out for Monglian food today too. That rocks.

And it's raining. I like the rain.

And after I get done with the WAN stuff some friends want to take me out for drinks.

Yeah, Friday the 13th sure sucks. Maybe I better go home and break a mirror or two, spill some salt on the floor and find a black kitty to wave around just to get things back on the right track.
 
It's nearly 5.30 here and it's been no worse than usual.

Yesterday we discovered good evidence that a disease of dogs so far absent from Britain has probably been introduced by dogs travelling under the Pet Passport scheme, but that was yesterday and the dog probably caught the disease a couple of weeks ago anyway.

Rolfe.
 
1:30pm here. Not dead yet... not even a stubbed toe. Standard day really.

Maybe I should break up with my girlfriend and use it as evidence.
 
As soon as I get home I've got plenty of work to do. I broke a mirror this morning so I have to clean that up. I need to change my oil, and my car jack is pretty rusty but I think I can get one more use out of it. I also have to fix a couple of shingles and I think I can just fit under those power lines, as long as the jerry-rigged ladder holds up. My chimney needs to be swept but it will be so cold this evening I want to have just one more fire even if I can't find the fireplace screen. I'll don't have any logs so I will cut it directly from a couple branches in my backyard -- no chainsaw so I'll use a circular saw. I'll have to drape the long cord over the kiddy pool to get it to reach. Then I will put in a ceiling fan upstairs -- no sense in going all the way to the basement to shut the power off. Meanwhile I'll be leaving some turkey on the kitchen counter to thaw.

See you at 12:01 tonight...

[SIZE=-2](edit) "table saw" for "circular saw". Using a table saw would just be dumb. [/SIZE]
 
I woke up and grabbed my bag with my Linear Algebra book in it. I thought maybe I should take my certificate out of my other bag and stick in a safe place but I figured it was fine. I wondered if I should grab my GBA SP from the bag, but no. I had homework to do.

I get all the way to work and realized that I left my keys and my ID in the bag.

*Sigh*

I'd blame it on my five hours of sleep, but hell, it's a Friday the 13th.
 
I walked out my front door and a faulty circular-saw blade came loose from my neighbor's circular saw and flew over to me and took my head CLEAN OFF!

I staggered and fell into an empty cat-food bowl and all the neighborhood cats came over and DEVOURED MY HEADLESS BODY!

My head rolled down a hill and into oncoming traffic and a school bus driver swerved to avoid it and drove STRAIGHT INTO A RESERVOIR killing all three hundred children on the bus!

The cats all came over to the reservoir and pooped my digested body into it thereby CONTAMINATING THE WHOLE COUNTY'S WATER SUPPLY WITH SALMONELLA AND E. COLI!

Then my head rolled into a pasture where a COW ATE MY BRAIN!








Oh wait, that all happened yesterday, Thursday the 12th.
Today's been relatively normal.
 
I ordered out for fried chicken and the pieces were tiny - my days of being a sKeptic are over...
 
Beleth said:
I walked out my front door and a faulty circular-saw blade came loose from my neighbor's circular saw and flew over to me and took my head CLEAN OFF!

I staggered and fell into an empty cat-food bowl and all the neighborhood cats came over and DEVOURED MY HEADLESS BODY!

My head rolled down a hill and into oncoming traffic and a school bus driver swerved to avoid it and drove STRAIGHT INTO A RESERVOIR killing all three hundred children on the bus!

The cats all came over to the reservoir and pooped my digested body into it thereby CONTAMINATING THE WHOLE COUNTY'S WATER SUPPLY WITH SALMONELLA AND E. COLI!

Then my head rolled into a pasture where a COW ATE MY BRAIN!

Oh wait, that all happened yesterday, Thursday the 12th.
Today's been relatively normal.
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I'm sorry, I must have missed the abnormal part.
 
In Denmark we only have three hours left of Friday the 13th, and so far nobody's mailed to tell me they didn't survive it.
Wait a minute! How come nobody's mailed me?
Oh, my email service is down!
My email service is down? On Fri 13th ...
 
I have had a splendid day. What a load of poppycock.

Anyway, gotta go. I'm late for my sword-swallowing class.
 
I usually have an especially good day every time Friday 13th comes around; superstitious people always warn me of how I have to be wary of this ominous day, and though I naturally am not going to heed these warnings, they still subconsciously create an atmosphere around me of lowered expectations which, when contrasted with what actually happens later on in the day, makes for more pleasant experiences than normal.
 
I've always had good feelings about Friday the 13th. When I was in middle school, in the early to mid 1970s, it was one of those schools where they let the kids do the coursework at their own pace. In math, you'd study a section, then go to a testing room to be tested on it whenever you felt ready. On Friday the 13th, they would give an extra ten points to compensate! So on those days, I would always score 110.
 
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