Columbus, Indiana

So, today I took a day to explore my nearest city, Washington, DC.

I'm walking into the National Gallery of Art, when I run into my friend and co-worker, Doug, his wife Jess, and two of their friends. Not such a coincidence, as work is only about 20 miles away. In fact, I later ran into another friend and co-worker, Amalia. Again, not such an odd coincidence.

But, back to Doug and his friends. I casually asked them where they were visiting from. "Indiana." I replied, telling them that my wife and a friend are going to see the movie "Columbus" tonight, about a very small town (pop. 46,850) in Indiana. "Oh, we're from Columbus!" was their reply. Now I find that odd.

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Speaking of Hogs...

My wife, Yukiko, and I were driving to Berkeley Springs, WV today. We started talking about what it would have been like to grow up on a farm. I mentioned our friend, Kevin, and the fact that he did grow up on a hog farm. In fact, he still owns one. Next corner we drove around, what did we see? This:

This Coincidence Ties to my Other Blog

Okay, I have begun another blog recently, where I’m documenting a series of 30 day challenges I am assigning to myself. CLICK HERE if you want to see my monthly challenge blog. Today, the first day of October, I began making an ink sketch every day of the month. I mentioned it to my daughter, who replied “Oh, my friend’s doing this thing called Inktober. There’s a series of prompts, and you submit a drawing every day. I’ll send you the prompts.” Well, turns out that a certain Jake Parker started his own challenge, coincidentally in October, back in 2009. Not only a daily sketch challenge, but in ink, just like mine! CLICK HERE to check out the official Inktober page. I’m definitely going to participate. Today’s prompt was “swift.” Here’s my entry: But the real point for this blog is the coincidence. Is it not weird to find exactly the same 31 day challenge I made up, in the same month and same media?

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