Frustrating

[fbhjr]

My wife bought me a CD the other day. I didn’t get the chance to load it into iTunes and put it on my iPod, so I brought the CD in to work to listen to it on the laptop.
It is the first time I’ve used iTunes on the laptop since I had the new hard drive put in, so it had me enter all the on line store info again.
While doing that, I browsed through some of their music videos for sale. I found an old Cyndi Lauper song I used to like, so I downloaded the video for it. (Back when videos were videos...)
I started listening to it, then got interrupted by actual work.
Finally, I just decided to go out to lunch.
I got in the car, turned the key, and the same song was on the radio, at the same point in the song where I had left off.
The song came out 25 years ago. And, it’s not the most popular on the album. Honestly, I don’t remember hearing it on the radio since the 80’s.
But, there it was, at the same point of the same song...

Now, that sort of thing happens to me all the time. TV shows I happen to mention show up that night. Songs I happen to think of are playing the next time I listen to the radio. I mention people and they call later that day.
It really isn’t that unusual for me.

But, what I want to know is:
If I can somehow get a 25 year old song right on the radio down to the right word in the song, why can’t I get a single number right on a lottery ticket?
Or, how can I make money predicting songs on the radio?

(As I wrote this I was thinking, “what good is it to be able to say ‘that phone will ring now’”. As I thought it, it rang. It was a wrong number that just happened to call then. I feel mocked.)

Comments

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

The Power Cosmic is mysterious indeed.

Errr...Ok, The Force, sorry :D

Karma Debt, Dude.

[gilden.livejournal.com]

The Cassandra syndrome, sort of.

Obviously, you were either Hitler's hamster or Goebel's Gerbil in an earlier life... Or was that me?..

At least you're not a telemarketer! That would be the result a much deeper karma debt, though.

You're young, you'll adjust! :-)