Tonight is a fortuitous night indeed, for this evening, dear reader, is an evening of numerical alignment. Behold! At two minutes and three seconds past one in the morning the earth (at least the United States part of the earth) will be sequentially ordered: 01:02:03, 04/05/06.

Now, those of you psychotic or suspicious enough to run your spirituality through some sort of encrypted conduit will undoubtedly notice that the final number in the sequence is six (6), which is a bad spiritual number. Dear Lord! Lock the windows, bar the shutters tonight and prepare silver bullets and garlic galore! But before you accidently shoot your mother, mistaking her flowing nightgown for the deadly aura of a ghost, consider the following: Yes, despite the rather disturbing end number of the sequence I have several reasons to remain unfazed. 1) If you count zero (0) as the first number of the sequence there are actually seven (7) numbers in all. 2) I was born on 3/10. 10 minus 3 equals 7, which is the number of completion (I stick my tongue out at you wretched deviants not blessed with such a birth date). 3) Cryptic numerical spirituality is not only bunk, but rubbish and tripe as well.

I’ll stick with numbers 2 and 3…