8 March 2010: All Day Long You'll Have Good Luck!

I guess it was a good thing that I picked up this penny I found. I got a call from Bill telling me that his brakes went out in the truck while he was driving to work. What?!?! Luckily, all was fine and the brakes did not go out completely...he just had to push them all the way down to the floor to stop! A few hundred bucks later and all is fine...I guess I better start finding more pennies, dimes, dollars to pay for the new brake line.

13 November 2009 Photo: Triskaidekaphobia Take Two

May your day be lucky! I have already had my unlucky day involving a ladder about a month ago. Here is a tribute to an earlier to Friday the 13th. http://wide-angle-lens.blogspot.com/2009/02/13-february-2009-photo.html

13 February 2009 Photo: Triskaidekaphobia

Do you have Triskaidekaphobia ? Today is Friday the 13th and the number 13 has a long history debating whether it is a lucky or unlucky numbers.

In the U.S. there are many traditions to avoid the number 13...many buildings do not have a 13th floor, some cities with numbered streets do not have a 13th Street, there is not a cinema 13 in the some theaters.

However in some cases, just the opposite is true. Just down the road a piece is Colgate University and they consider 13 to be a lucky number. They were founded in 1819 by 13 men with 13 dollars, 13 prayers, and 13 articles. (To this day, members of the Colgate community consider the number 13 a good omen.) In fact, the campus address is 13 Oak Drive in Hamilton, NY and the all men a cappella group is called the Colgate 13.

Today, for me 13 is a lucky number. Since I am leaving for a conference tomorrow, Bill decided February 13th was going to be our Valentine's Day. I got beautiful flowers and he is making dinner for me (we'll see if I can keep my nose out of the kitchen).