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Off-Topic -- more Coincidences #5
This happened 30 seconds ago. I was JUST thinking how great it would be if my 3:30 pm cancelled again today. A text came in from them immediately asking to cancel.
Yesterday I was having a senior moment, trying to remember the name of my grandson's dog. About an hour later I was reading Shakey: Neil Young's Biography and came across the name Astrid. That's my grand dogs name!
About a week ago I had mentioned to my boss that she had never had a sick day since i started there 5 years ago. Yesterday she had to cancel her afternoon patients due to the flu.
Koren wrote: "Yesterday I was having a senior moment, trying to remember the name of my grandson's dog. About an hour later I was reading Shakey: Neil Young's Biography and came across the name Astr..."Neil Young? lol
A killer in the book I just finished, Meet Me For Murder, used the alias "Ippolito" and it crossed my mind that it was a name I'd never heard anywhere. Well, just now I decided to follow a fish videographer at Instagram and when I tapped his username, his real name came up: Ippolito.
OK, I just finished Killer Triggers: Murder Comes Down to Sex, Drugs, or Money and one of the cases was about a guy whose head was run over by a car. Then I turned to True Crime Case Histories, Books 4, 5, & 6: 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories and one of those cases involved a guy whose head got run over by a car.
Two things. Today I had a strangely powerful urge to wear a pendant I have not had on in many years:
And after I got to work I learned that today we're having a "pink moon."
Also, yesterday was packed with the number 22. I resumed watching a crime disc and noticed that I was 22 minutes into an episode. The next episode I watched featured a guy who was shot while wearing a football jersey with the number 22 on it. I realized I had to turn in and noticed I did so at 10:22 p.m. And all this happened on April 22nd...
Fishface wrote: "Two things. Today I had a strangely powerful urge to wear a pendant I have not had on in many years:And after I got to work I learned that today we're having a "pink moon."
Also, yesterday was..."
And 10:22 is 2222 in Military time or on a 24 hour clock.
Hari wrote: "And 10:22 is 2222 in Military time or on a 24 hour clock..."Whoo-hoo! So cool
I was just at court and saw a stack of papers with an unfamiliar label on them: "Judge Longworth to sign." Must be the new judge they got in.Then I came back here to the office and saw a quote:
"If you have nothing pleasant to say about anyone, come and sit by me." It was a quote from Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Here's one I found in my news magazine. They announced that the largest marine reptile ever found (an 82-foot-long Ichthyosaurus) has just been named, after an 11-year-old girl in England found its bones. They added that the very first Ichthyosaurus ever found was discovered in 1811, in England, by a 12-year-old girl.
A small one: today at work I heard a whole discussion about the origins and meaning of the name "Gordo." Well, I just hit page 159 of A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers and someone just announced the name of a monkey being shot into space: Gordo.
Overlapping reading A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers and Fair Game has been decidedly echoey. Both books prominently feature men named Hansen, and now I find they both have people named Dewey as well.
I was over at Reddit and we were comparing notes over how many native plants we have in our gardens. I have 77 native plants. I went to charge my phone and it said it was at 77%.
Here's one. I have had a plague of random pop-up ads lately and just now, when I was posting a photo of my favorite iris, "Adobe Rose," at the garden app, an ad popped up for Adobe Reader.
Yesterday I was getting my nails done and telling the tech that I wish I could go to see Mickey Dolenz (remember the Monkees?) that was playing at a venue about an hour away, but I've been to the venue before and I know there is no seating, standing room only. It was about 5 minutes later that the Monkees song I'm A Believer came on whatever station they had playing at the time. The tech said that was weird because that station rarely played that kind of music. Hmm, big brother watching again?
Life in a small town. Two weeks ago, a lady in our town passed away and her funeral was last Friday. I knew her slightly. Both she and her husband were teachers where I went to high school. Tonight I was reading a book by Jody Picoult. Not sure where I got the book. I've had it a while. Probably a garage sale. I opened the book and this lady that passed away must have been a previous owner. Her name was written on the inside cover.
Koren wrote: "Life in a small town. Two weeks ago, a lady in our town passed away and her funeral was last Friday. I knew her slightly. Both she and her husband were teachers where I went to high school. Tonight..."You clearly have a case of the spooky echoes lately!
Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Life in a small town. Two weeks ago, a lady in our town passed away and her funeral was last Friday. I knew her slightly. Both she and her husband were teachers where I went to high s..."I don't know. Maybe I read too much into these things.
Koren wrote: "I don't know. Maybe I read too much into these things."But it still counts as a coincidence!
Small but enormously satisfying. A guy held the door for me this morning at the post office and as I thanked him I noticed he was wearing a Godzilla t-shirt. I was wearing one too.
Fishface wrote: "Fishface wrote: ""Fishface wrote: "I just wanted to say the name Ivan is everywhere lately...."Aaaaaand here's another. I turned on NPR and they were talking about a murdered Russian journalist...."
Two more Ivans today! There's a talking dolphin named Ivan in the book I'm reading, The Day of the Dolphin, and I just saw a news item about the record-setting 2,325 Ivans who got together in Bosnia to establish the largest gathering of people with the same name. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
Ivan is a very common name in that part of the world. My grandfather was born in Croatia and his name was Ivan(John). My mother could speak the language and visited the Marian shrine in Medjugorje in 1995.
I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was look at watch. It was 7:27 a.m. on the 27th. Would have been more interesting if this was July but still...
Bill wrote: "Ivan is a very common name in that part of the world. My grandfather was born in Croatia and his name was Ivan(John). My mother could speak the language and visited the Marian shrine in Medjugorje ..."But it's not common here, and I appear to be surrounded by mentions of Ivans.
I just opened The Day of the Dolphin to kill time before work. One of the characters immediately announced that today was June 3rd. And indeed, today is June 3rd.
This one came in yesterday. I was trying to remember the name of a client I saw for just a short time last year. Well, the same day I was mistakenly included on a mass e-mail about that case and his name was the subject heading, so I got my answer.
I just opened a message here at GR that mentioned Chicago TV news anchor Bill Kurtis. I happen to be listening to Bill Kurtis right this minute -- he's one of the hosts of "Wait, Wait, Don't tell Me," the NPR weekly news quiz.
Here's one I just found in Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group:"Former Weatherman Bill Ayers's Fugitive Days: A Memoir ...[the] publication date coincided with the attacks of September 11th, 2001, which overnight essentially eliminated the possibility that a memoir by a retired terrorist would find a large sympathetic readership."
I'm still also in the middle of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders and was struck by the news that one of the victims, Julie Williams, was born on September 11th, and the terrorist attacks kept her parents from visiting the crime scene in memory of their murdered daughter. I read these passages in the two books only a day apart.
I was at the chiropractor's yesterday and learned from reading their little capsule bios projected on their TC screens that the only 2 chiropractors I have worked with in that office...both happen to be triplets.
When I was reading Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders and Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group at the same time, I discovered that the terrorist group named M19 was short for May 19th, AND that the last day anyone definitely saw Julie Williams and Lollie Winans alive (the murdered women in the first book) was May 19th.
This is one of those days I get the feeling that nothing happens by accident.Twice this week I have been heading up Chilson Road, determined to go to Wash World, when the tire-pressure alert popped up on my dashboard. In both cases the tire pressure was fine and I just needed to clear the reading and start over. The weirdness came in because the alert came up both times within a minute of me thinking "I'm going to head to Wash World."
And then this. Tonight is the first Trump-Biden debate on TV. I stopped reading The Day of the Dolphin for a few days when a new book I had to read immediately came in the mail. But I'm back to dolphin adventures now and this is what I read, today of all days. They're talking about a wildly-unqualified movie star, Jim Crooner, running for president. He has a chance of winning just because he is well known, and the text mentions how he responds to his adversaries in "trumped-up television debates."
That whole section -- pages 208 and 209 in the edition I am reading -- is full of comments that remind me of what I hear on the news every minute and a half. All the same issues, all the same problems. They even trace it back to Ronald Reagan "who was advertising a brand of cigars on TV" and got elected governor of California. This book hit the newsstands in 1967, well before the Gipper made it to the presidency, but commentators on both sides right now are tracing Trump's political rise straight back to Reagan, the way the author of this book does.
It seems...beyond coincidence.
Fishface wrote: "This is one of those days I get the feeling that nothing happens by accident.Twice this week I have been heading up Chilson Road, determined to go to Wash World, when the tire-pressure alert popp..."
I haven't read that book and I believe there is a movie. Was it a Dustin Hoffman movie. I'll google it.
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This is one of those days I get the feeling that nothing happens by accident.Twice this week I have been heading up Chilson Road, determined to go to Wash World, when the tire-pr..."
Oops! It's George C. Scott. I think I will try to find it. Quicker than trying to find the book unless the library has it.
Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "This is one of those days I get the feeling that nothing happens by accident.Twice this week I have been heading up Chilson Road, determined to go to Wash World, when the tire-pr..."
Yes, in fact Roman Polanski was out of the country, working on the movie adaptation of THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN, when he got the phone call informing him that his wife and friends has been murdered in the Cielo Drive house.
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Clearly this move was meant to be!I was at this really dumb training late last week and one of the assignments was to use the new assessment tool on any fictional character we chose. I chose Romeo Montague from Romeo & Juliet. Well, later in the training they gave us a sample client to assess. His name was Romeo. There was only one male in the training class...and his last name was Montague.
I'm reading Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper and came across a sentence mentioning 2 of the investigators on the Yorkshire Ripper case. One is named Ridgway and one is named Woodcock, both names of other serial killers. And the mother of one if the victims is named Sutcliffe, a surname she shares with her daughter's killer.
Here's another from the same book! Yvonne Pearson was last seen alive on Picton Street.
Fishface wrote: "Here's another from the same book! Yvonne Pearson was last seen alive on Picton Street."And another! When the police intercepted the Ripper from killing Olivia Reivers, the killer gave a phony name: John Williams. That's the name of TWO other serial killers.
Two in 2 days:I posted the anniversary of Joey Housey's murder and later on turned on Pluto TV. It was set on the channel showing FORENSIC CASE FILES and the first thing I saw was Joey Housey's body; they were doing a segment on John McRae, his killer.
Well, yesterday I went to add Christine Vu's murder but couldn't because the Chromebook wouldn't start. The anniversary is in 2 days. I turned on my phone yesterday and checked out Pluto again. FORENSIC CASE FILES was interviewing Christine Vu's husband; the segment was on Christine's killer, Dale Scheanette.
This happened 1 minute ago. I was closing a case because I haven't seen the family since July. Just as I signed the discharge form -- literally the same minute -- a text came in from the client's dad.
All my clients cancelled today so of course I was looking for the date of an axe massacre in the Congo. All I could come up with was the wrong one, February 21st, 1957. Well, my library notice arrived saying my book came in.The story stars on February 21st.
This was odd. I was asking a client about her atty yesterday and she told me she's using the Tom Kizer law firm. Well, sir, today the front page of the local paper said Jerome Kowalski is going to retrial and his atty is going to be Tom Kizer. The paper devoted 2 1/2 pages to giving a full retrospective on the case and I learned a lot more about what's gone on. The other coincidence is that the trial starts on my birthday. I just posted the article umder Crime Headlines. I learned a lot more about the case in there than I ever knew before. Here it is again if there's any interest:https://www.livingstondaily.com/story...
Yesterday I realized that in all the time I've been mentioning the Kowalski case here -- especially Judge Brennan's disbarment -- I never added the actual murders to my anniversary list. The Kowalskis turn out to have been found dead May 2nd. Well, I just got a new client assigned, and May 2nd is his birthday.
A couple hours ago someone asked at X what everyone's favorite Al Pacino role is. I chose John Milton, the devil in THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. Just now the Weather Channel informed me that the new tropical storm with hurricane potential is named Milton. That seems like a really bad coincidence...
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Aaaaaand here's another. I turned on NPR and they were talking about a murdered Russian journalist. Named Ivan."
And then I just saw this