I passed an interesting milestone today.. somewhere between 12:30 and 3:15  this afternoon, this blog had it’s 300,000th read.  was wondering if that 300K mark would actually occur on Nov 25th.. the

anniversary that I started writing here.. which was 3 days after Sam’s

passing. Tat’s what happened at the 1 year mark.. I had exactly 100,000

viewers on the year anniversary of starting here.. last year, things

had slowed down.. and I was onl at soemthign like 180,000 readers on

the 2nd anniversary.  This year I’m at 300,000 3 weeks early..  It’s a funny landmark.. Kind of meaningless, I know.. but as someone who’s neurotically obsessed with numbers.. and their occurrence, it was an interesting passing.

   You are probably saying to yourself.. ‘who cares’  .. and you’re right.. But I see significances in all sorts of numbers.

    I think there are no real coincidences.. just number sequences we’ve failed to follow.  . I have a ritual whenever a car I’m driving hits a magic number (eg, a 100K .,, or al digits the same.. eg 1111111) I feel compelled to get out of the car and run around it three times. I only make phen calls on even number seconds.. I only drink out of water glasses which have been filled three times.  I see special meaning in the number of hotel rooms that I’m given . I see portents, good or bad , in times of emails I receives..  n phone numbers, in addresses..  I subconsciously factor numbers (combination, hotel room  numbers, parts of phone numbers) to see if they might be prime numbers… like my lucky number (911 .. yes.. 911 ) . All in the hope of what ? … Perhaps in the hope of finding some clue … some answer … to this wacky universe.. perhaps of knowing g-d..   ?  

 Does that make me a bad person ?    Hope not…. 
OK.. enough.. time for bed. Night folks, night Sam !
-me

ps. I’ on a panel discussion on Wed night about predictions for the year 2050.. Anyone out there got soem cool predictions ?