I'd really love to have good days. I've had a recent continum of mediocre days. Sometimes they can even be worse than bad days, because at least you get SOMETHING out of a bad day. Anger, annoyance, or at least something to laugh at yourself about a year or so later. Not mediocre days though, because on these days it just so happens that the norm seems to be all that occurs. I'm sick of these days and I figured I might actually have a good day today (or at least a bad day to affect me in some way). No. Unfortunately not.

Have you ever had one of those days where you have a lot planned out perfectly and then it all just blows up like Kilimanjaro? Somehow, after careful planning and thought processing, it all just falls apart. I was supposed to go with some friends to lunch, then have some fun somewhere else, go see a movie, and then maybe at a party we heard about. If not the party, then a couple of us decided to play Halo 2 for hte rest of the a.m. About five things there--yeah, five--and somehow all of them peice by peice stopped happening. People couldn't make it. Didn't have a ride. Things came up. Superman reversed the rotation of Earth which screwed up the time continuum somehow thrusting people into another dimension in which they go from having the entire day ready to do whatever to saving the world. It just shocks me, really. I have my own little entourage of friends, something like, um... six or seven of us. All apparently could do whatever they want. I take a shower, do the hokey pokey, and then all of the sudden no body can do anything.

This SUCKS! My one good day in a couple weeks and it's gone. Bulls***! Now I have to waste away in my house the rest of the night. How the hell does this crap happen? That's what I thought about thirty seconds after hanging up the phone. I thought I would be mad to, but I wasn't. I just kindof sat in my computer chair, stared at the fan, put my feet up on the bed and zoned out for a good fifteen minutes really pondering on how this could happen.

Unlucky is the conclusion I come to. And the more I kept thinking about it, the more I realize how much of our lives are dependent on chance. The luck of the draw. And if you get unlucky, there's nothing you can do about it. Sometimes things just fall into place for a chaotic string of events.

Hopefully, luck will be on my side for once. Certainly hasn't been helping me in poker lately either.

-Mike