Thirteen thirteens

1. Sep­tem­ber 13^th is my anniversary.
2. 13 Engines’ Per­pet­u­al Motion Machine, alt-rock from 1994, rocks.
3. Half of the Fri­day the 13ths that fall are pay­days for me.
4. The oth­er half are not.
5. But that’s okay because my wife’s pay­day is off­set from mine by a week.
6. Her­cules, a well-known and easy-to-find con­stel­la­tion in these north­ern lat­i­tudes, con­tains the glob­u­lar clus­ter M13.
7. There’s at least one hotel in Win­nipeg whose floor num­bers skip from 12 to 14, omit­ting 13.
8. My most recent address was Apart­ment 31. The apart­ment num­bers on the sec­ond floor went 11, 12, 31, 14. I sus­pect they swapped the dig­its, what do you think?
9. Before I could move into the apart­ment, work­men had to clean up and touch up the ceil­ing. The whole ceil­ing came down as they worked on it, which meant that they had to re-do the whole shootin’ match. For­tu­nate­ly, I was mov­ing from a one-bed­room apart­ment to a two-BR in the same build­ing, which meant I did­n’t have two land­lords to deal with.
10. Up until that point, I’d nev­er viewed 13 as par­tic­u­lar­ly unlucky. (I still don’t, real­ly. Peo­ple who let num­bers rule their lives are rather nine­teen.)
11. My wife’s read­ing Lemo­ny Snick­et’s A Series of Unfor­tu­nate Events. Book 12 was titled The Penul­ti­mate Per­il, which leads me to believe that the 13^th book will end the series.
12. The Gob­lin King’s clock in Labyrinth has 13 hours.
13. And who can for­get Homer, peer­ing at the mis-print­ed cal­en­dar on the 13^th hour of the 13^th day of the 13^th month, and mut­ter­ing “Lousy Smarch weath­er”? Not I, apparently.

[ps] You can tell I’m not an Amer­i­can because it only now, hours lat­er, occurs to me that there’s 13 bars in the old stars ‘n’ bars. (That, and my insis­tence on insert­ing that “extra” u in words like colour and vapour.)

Links to oth­er Thurs­day Thirteens!

1. Car­men
2. Day­By­Day4-2Day
3. Doug’s movie quotes game
4. Aman­da
5. Dar­la’s Tow­el Day 13
6. Jayne miss­es junk food
7. Urban Mum­my’s list of ideas
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