10/14/2010 - Dukes

My family and I were sitting down for dinner again while listening to an 80's satellite radio station from the living room.  Our son was asking about old TV shows when we were younger and we started talking about shows like "The Greatest American Hero" and "The Dukes of Hazzard."  We started laughing and singing the old catchy tunes together when out of nowhere from the radio station came Waylon Jennings "...Just'a good ole boys...never meanin' no harm..." 

I can probably tell you I had nave heard that song since I watching the Dukes of Hazzard as an eight year old!

10/4/2010 - Broken Glass

Tonight my family and I were sitting down for dinner when we heard what sounded like a large thud followed by shattering of glass.  It sounded something like something soft but heavy hitting a car window and pieces of glass went flying all over our tile.  We looked around the room and found that a rectangular glass storage container had spontaneously burst.  Each side had shot out in all directions as if something in the middle had exploded.  Out dogs were sitting on the other side of the room with us and we could find no cause like something dropping from the ceiling.

Strange eh?
Here is a picture:

9/23/2010 - Email Majik

I just realized that I needed to setup a conference call/meeting that I had dropped over a week ago.  The Email string was left in my hands as I told this vendor that I would get back to her with my availability for the 30th.  As I was reviewing my calendar for that day, out of the blue, I get an email asking again for my availability.  It was as if my action of looking into a meeting that I had not thought about in over a week sparked thought in the vendor with which I needed to coordinate the meeting to contact me.  Little things like this tell me I am walking my path to enlightenment properly!

9/10/2010 - Wishful Thinking

This previous weekend my son and I were in the backyard and he looked over to our push scooter and said "Daddy, I have an idea. We should get one of those scooters that you do not have to push.  You know, the kind with a motor that go by them selves."

I laughed and said "Yes son, we should check into that" and put no more thought into it.

This afternoon I was going out to lunch with a friend when he asked me if I could take some LP's our of his trunk to the post office on the way to eat.  I said sure and backed my car up so his.  We got out of the car and before he opened the trunk he said "Hey, would you be interested in a scooter?"

"No, we already have one" I told him.

"This is one with a motor that you do not have to push." and I just stopped short and smiled.

I had not told my friend anything about what my son had hoped for and amazingly he arrives with the exact thing!  I accepted the gift from my firend (and the Universe!) and took it home for my son.  He and my wife both were amazed and enjoy the scooter!

9/9/2010 - Football

I was in a meeting today when I looked across the table, about ten feet from me, and saw a co-worker. I had not yet spoken to him in the meeting and was thinking that I should talk to him about the new NFL season; we are both Steelers fans. The second our eyes made contact, I immediately smiled at him and mouthed "Football!" to him.

The amazing thing is that he mouthed the exact same words back at me as if I was looking in a mirror. It was almost as if me thinking about talking football with him connected us in a way that we spoke the exact same word at the exact same time.

Kind of cool!