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I'd like to point out that on Friday the 13th that was my number of "visitors". How auspicious. Of course, if you're seeing this it's no longer true or relevant.

888th post

So this is it, the confluence I was mentioning before. I am posting this in time for my 8888th visitor. Also in a few days is the anniversary or birth date of the blog. It’s July 4, which is oddly, also the birth date of Nigel Patel’s blog. Only his is a year older than mine. Which if I’m not mistaken makes his coming up on 4 and mine coming up on 3, years old.

Nigel and I have many strange confluence's ourselves, then we will discover some (usually point of ideology) where we could not be more divergent. But he never rolls his eyes at me like the former roommate when this arises. Nor does he seem to take offense when I laugh WITH his interesting perspectives, never at.

But it is odd to think that when I started this blog that I hadn’t started school yet, and that few of my readers knew me before I was such a whiney cripple. I used to be much more vibrant you know.
The moral, of course being, don’t expect greatness from doctors especially surgeons who for the most part are overpriced plumbers.
As well as that good art and bad art are completely and irrevocably subjective and can never be proved definitively at all. That as long as someone made it, it’s art. And that, my friends, is the ONLY thing that counts.

More on 8 from Paul Foster Case

“the figure suggests vibration by the shape of the lines, and alternation by the two kinds of motion used in describing it. It is also the only figure except 0 which may be written over and over again without lifting pen from paper.”

“The number 8 is the digit value of the name IHVH , 888 is the numeration of the name Jesus in Greek, and 8 is not only the “Dominical Number” or “Number of the Lord” in Christian numerical symbolism but is also the particular number of the god called Thoth by Egyptians, Nebo by Assyrians, Hermes by Greeks, and Mercury by Romans. Thus 8 is pre-eminently the number of magic and Hermetic Science. Its Hebrew name is Splendor, and the aspect of consciousness to which it corresponds is called “Perfect Intelligence”. The Hebrew adjective translated “perfect” is ShLM. A noun spelt with the same letters means “peace, security, health, wealth, satisfaction,” and thus refers to the perfect realization of the success represented by the number 7.”

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Another strange confluence approaches. Soon I’ll make my 888th post which could easily coincide with my 8888th visitor. All this just a little over a month from my 20th wedding anniversary on 8/8/08. Because yes, I got married on 8/8/88 at 8:08 pm, which was a Monday incidentally.
It is also odd that Uncle Bunny, who performed the ceremony, will be moving to Houston that day and it seems likely that may be the last time I ever see him. He however insists it will not be the last and lord knows he is a freaking Miracle Max. He could be right, but I’m not holding my breath on that one.

8 is either Strength or Justice depending on which version of the Tarot you subscribe to. Both have always been strong cards for me so there you go. Does strength close the lions mouth or help it open as wide as possible for complete expression? Some decks replace Justice with Balance. Learning those lessons is hard, hard. But more on that later as a veritable treatise on that is a-brewing.

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I just LOVE those auspicious numbers!

Numbers I’m Noticing

• 6 - recent deaths around me since, and including, Naan. That makes an average of one per month since September. Of course they’ve been more clumpy than that in reality.
• 20 - year anniversary (which I totally overlooked) of not being a wastrel. The actual date was Dec. 17. It just flowed over and I didn’t notice till last night. It’s good to no longer need to be a counter of days and years.
• 1 - Really bad prognosis. Not of me but affecting me.
• 18 - 23 - Cigarettes per day appears to be too much for my system to feel real comfortable with. But I am having trouble telling myself no on this.
• 5 - Completely weird cocktails I invented the other night at a fabulous little soiree I needed to attend to combat SAD and ennui. The most notable was basically a fizzy Kamikaze. Stoli’s, Cointreau, Roses and Pellegrino water = Yummy.
• 4 - X’s per day. That’s the new feeding regimen for the cats since we switched over to all canned food to help Jetson become a healthy, normal cat. While it is totally working on that aspect, it’s a bit of a pain in my arse.
• 32 - Years that I’ve known my friend Violet. That’s just a whole lot.
• 5 - Days since my last post
• Hundreds of things I’m supposed to be doing right now instead of this.

Sweet

Another auspicious number 5555