I have to say that I am a bit of a nut when it comes to numbers. I'm not a great mathmetician or anything like that. But I am facinated by numbers that come up randomly. A good example, but by no means the only one, would be the numbers on your gas pump when you just turn on the pump and let it fill up and turn off automatically. That has to one of the most randomly generated numbers that I can think of. Your hand is off the gismo, and there is no way that anyone can know with precision how much empty space is in a tank, how fast the pump can pump, what the gas price will be on a particular day, etc. when they pull into the gas station. When that nozzle is stuck in the intake, and the gas starts pumping, and you take your hands off it, and it shuts off on its own, that is a very random situation.

And that fascinates me. But it isn't only the random stuff. But it's how the random can, from time to time, become totally patterned, but again, in a totally random manner. For example, an auto shutoff at a gas pump could and does end up on whole numbers - like $23 of gas. And the next guy that pulls into the pump could do the same thing and stop on $22 or $21. Or some other regular pattern. It doesn't happen that often, but it does happen. And it's more than once every thousand years.

I like to look at the individual numbers, how they add up, both in combinations and in total, and the actual number created by the 4 digits (for example, 21.52). Sometimes random numbers might tell you something about what is going to happen next. Maybe not. Who knows? I more think it does more than it doesn't. A lot of this life is illusion isn't it?

So here we are at 11/11/11. This is a special number to me for a lot of reasons. It could very well be that a kid that was born on 11:11 on 11/11/11 might "save the world." Probably not, moreso because the world probably can't be saved, but who knows? And that is my point. So enjoy the day. It's a special one!