[partyman66]

The craziest set of random occurences happened tonight, involving my lust for the fine state of California. As most people know, I am sick to death of the horrible New England winters and East-Coast lifestyle... and I have been putting quite a bit of thought into moving to California over the past 2 years(toying with the idea, on and off). Well... since the weather is nice out now here in Massachusetts, I haven't really thought about moving there in about 2 or 3 months.... UNTIL TONIGHT. The following 4 events happened completely on their own in a matter of about 2 1/2 hours of time:

Let the randomness begin.

1) So, I'm leaving work tonight(worked late, and i'm the last one to leave the building). As I'm walking to my car, I stop and take notice of the great weather and think to myself "Wow, it's soo fricken nice out right now. It's almost depressing to think that it's going to get cold here in about 2 months and stay like that for half a year." Then I started thinking to myself.. "This isn't necessary, to live in this putrid cycle of mother nature's madness. There are happy places like California where the weather is nice January through December.. Why do I put myself through this weather year after year in this horrific state?" So, I get in my car and drive home, windows down... radio blasting.... and enjoying the wonderful night.

2) I get home from work and turn on my computer, and a few minutes later my friend Jamie IM's me completely out of the blue. He and I are really good friends and usualy go to to San Diego once a year on vacation and always talk about moving there(more seriously with each passing year). Well.. prior to tonight, neither of us had really mentioned moving to California in about the past 3 or 4 months.... then, out of nowhere, I get an AIM message from him saying "Dude, When are we moving to California?!" It's like he read my mind.

3) About 10 minutes after Jamie IM's me, I get an unbelievably spontaneous AIM message from a lovely young lady from California who I used to chat with quite often up until about 3 or so months ago.. when we unexpectedly lost touch with one another. She has some new screenname... and, go figure, one of her first questions to me is "Are you going to move to California?". At this point, I start beginning to question my own sanity, and wonder if perhaps someone had spiked my drink this weekend at the club with some sort of drug that has a latent 2 or 3 day incubation period after which you lose every ounce of your wit.

4) No more than 20 minutes to a half hour after I get the random message from my long-lost friend in California... my little brother sends me an AIM message... "Hey dude... Are you going to move to California?". At this point, I'm practicly ready to start looking around my house for hidden cameras, because I have to be on one of those hidden camera/joke/Candid-camera TV shows where they play a well-orchestrated prank on you. Naturally, I am completely dumbfounded by the unbelievable odds of all these events happening completely independent of one another in such a short time period... so I ask my brother what made him think to ask me if I was moving to Cali... His response was "Well.. My old college roomate from Freshman year of college(3 years ago) just IM'd me and asked me if you were moving to California". I have only met my brothers old roomate one time in my entire life, and I never mentioned anything to him about California. My little brother must have told him that I wanted to move there at some point a few years ago... and he suddenly felt the urge to ask my brother TONIGHT, at this very time if I was moving there.

I don't know what to say. I'm not a big believer in fate... but if there ever was a sign from a higher power, this is it.

What great destiny-bound people and events is California harboring for me?... I need to heed the calling, before I miss it.

The door is open, I've heard the creaking as it careened open and beckoned to me... I need only to muster the might to walk through it.