Post # 1111

Today just happens to be Blog Post #1111, a number that haunts me for some reason. I see it everywhere. That this post barely missed running on the 11th hasn’t been lost on me, let me tell you.

However, my newspaper column runs tomorrow, and I did decide to write a bit about this quirk of mine (shared my many others, I should say). Here’s a sneak peek, and maybe I’ll post the whole thing after the piece has run in the paper tomorrow…

Last year, I could have just given you a link to the online version, but for months now I’ve been bumped out of that space by an entertainment writer. Such is the life of the humour columnist…

Here’s the peak:

I See Numbers

Since the advent of digital displays on clocks and devices like VCRs or DVD recorders, there has been a frequent worldwide phenomenon of what I believe is called “recurring numbers”. That would be when you glance towards a device, and happen to see something like “11:11”, or “2:22”. I don’t know about you, but I see this sort of thing more often than I care to. And believe it or not, it’s a big topic of discussion in cyber-space – but then again, so are dancing cats.
If you go to surf The Google, and type in “11:11”, you will find a number of theories with respect to the possible meaning of this occurrence. For example, the “11:11 spiritguardians.com” website offers a rather simple and logical explanation. They believe a “force” is causing people to look at clocks at that very exact moment, to see those numbers. That “force” would be Spirit Guardians, Midwayers, or in other words, fun-loving angels as their site describes them. I don’t know about you, but my idea of being a “fun-loving angel” would probably involve something more than spending eternity alerting Joe and Jane Public to recurring or sequential number occurrences. Were these Spirit Guardians accountants in their former lives? Boy, those accountants really know how to live it up in the afterlife!


There you have it – a taste of what I spend my days thinking about. Well, that and worrying about if there really ARE two scoops of raisins in every box of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran…

Chow for now!!