Day 13 - 13 January 2012 - Lucky or Unlucky today?

Once again the temperature has gone up; it's +4.7 and sounds like it might be raining or maybe just dripping off the house, but too dark to see outside yet. Nothing like Nova Scotia for weather, wait 5 minutes and it changes or drive 1 mile and it's different. Always nice to have choices. Friday has arrived again and for all you working folks, the weekend is just around the corner. Hey I just looked at the title again and realized it's Friday the 13th!!! What will it bring? Thought I'd check this superstitious stuff out and see what it all meant.  Courtesy of Wikipedia:

Consequently, several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.

• In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 Descendants of Muhammad Imams, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.
• Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.It has also been suggested that Friday has been considered an unlucky day because, according to Christian scripture and tradition, Jesus was crucified on a Friday.One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth, in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th. Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common.

I always start this first thing in the morning and finish up later on, hoping to see what else will happen or I will have something profound to say! I'm not feeling profound today!!!
But thanks to Sheryl I'm posting this: Today in History - January 13 1863 - Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet.

Think I may make the run to town today. Can pick up a few groceries and deliver a grant application [needed one more letter to go with it, which I now have]. Thick fog everywhere! Took a drive down to the Yacht Club parking lot while in town and got a few photos. At least we got to town and back without anything major happening; whew - lucky or what?

This gull must be very photogenic he never moved the whole time I was there. It's a little dark, but I had trouble dealing with the fog. More practice!

 Boat tied up at the Shelburne Wharf in the background, thick fog in the harbour.















Now to get some work done........