A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: July 26, 2010 - It's a "Dirty Job", but someone's got to do it

What does it mean?

You've been thinking about somone. Somone you haven't heard from in weeks, months or even years, and within a short period of time you receive some kind of communication from them. Twice I received letters from a woman I had worked with years before within a day of thinking about her for the first time in a long period of time. The second instance I even stopped in front of the mailbox and had the idea that there was going to be a letter from her because it had already happened once and sure enough, there was a letter in the box. My question is obvious. What is this phenomenon that boils down to a "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing"?

Is it God? Is it the Universe? Entanglement? Are our brains Quantum computers? Is it the "Law of Attraction"?, or is it all nothing more than a coincidence? Carl Jung called it synchronicity and it happens all the time. Does it happen to you? It happens to me and I find myself wondering "What does it mean?". Decide for yourself as you follow my diary of another "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing", also known as a S.C.O.U.T!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

July 26, 2010 - It's a "Dirty Job", but someone's got to do it

Background – I was walking with two friends at the beach and began to tell them the story of another friend’s father who had bought a house right on the beach. He sold the structure and had a company come pick it up and move it two blocks away; he just wanted the beach front property and planned on building his own house. It had been a big story at the time and the news even came to watch them load up the old house, and without breaking so much as a floor board, move it around the corner! The other moms and I wondered at how in the world they were able to do that. None of us had the slightest idea and therefore the conversation was a short one. I continued to wonder though, how they could do that without the house breaking completely apart.

S.C.O.U.T. - 4:00 that afternoon the kids came in from the beach and we all plopped down in front of the TV to cool off before dinner. The first show to come on was “Dirty Jobs” starring Mike Rowe. I felt that old familiar tingle creep down my spine as they announced that the second segment of the show would profile a company whose specialty is… moving entire houses from one place to another, without breaking so much as a floor board!! It took about 15 minutes for the show to answer all the question’s I’d had that morning about the subject. Simply uncanny, both how you can move an entire house without breaking a single floor board, and the fact that I had asked the question and gotten my answer within hours.

My goofy dog Scout is super mad at me. He could care less about how to move an entire house because he now realizes that we were at the beach the entire time he was in the kennel. He finds that completely unacceptable and refuses to forgive us for not taking him along.