
A few weeks ago, I was feeling
really despondent and shitty. I forced myself to leave the house and socialize
with friends downtown at The Fox & Goose pub on 10th and R. I pulled into
the last available parking space along the wall, and found myself face-to-face
with a graffiti stencil of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. It got me to thinking about the
so-called "coincidences" that occur to Subgenii. When you stop looking for
them, they appear everywhere, all the time - phantom echoes from the Luck
Plane.
About five minutes ago, here at my
job (data entry, which involves typing in MANY numbers), the thought again
suddenly popped into my head. I don't know what triggered it, but I just
flashed back to that happy occurrence of "Bob", guiding me toward Slack. And
immediately following this - no, scratch that, WHILE in the midst of this
memory, while my fingers absent-mindedly continued their mindless Con drone
task, the VERY NEXT number I came to type, was 606.
It's not quite 13013, but I'll take
it.