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Number ‘Synchronicity’

Can you believe it? I wrote this same post (that I just posted) back in December 2024 and did not follow through with it! A better post, too.

This is it….

“I love it when I check the time and see that it is 12.12 on the 21st. Always gave me a little tweak of emotional satisfaction to see the patterning. For a long time, for years, I thought that that was synchronicity at play.

A palindrome-like date is good too. The most recent one we had was 24 November 24, or 24/11/24

Mentioning that to a friend, he said it was just co incidence. “And it’s not even that,” he said. “I bet that kind of number confluence”— that is what he called it, I probably should google that for veracity—“happens so often you can’t call it co incidence.”

Of course, I set out to see what’s what and prove either me or him wrong.

I use a twelve hour clock.

12 x 60 = 720 minutes

Set them out in a table, 12 columns across the top left to right; 60 rows top to bottom. 720 cells.

Write in only the numerals where there was a definite pattern.”

Lol, from here on re read my latest on this topic.

Numbers and Synchronicity

Like many people, I enjoy the number play possible for example with such tools as digital clock times. What I’m realy talking about of course, is play with the numerals 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Usually I add or divide them.

Look at all these nines! If you add them all together you get 27, add those two and you get 9 again. If you add only two nines, you get 18 and if you then add 1 and 8 you get another 9. Nothing magic about it, just a pattern inherent in 9 and its processes.

A couple of years ago I went to the trouble of spreadsheeting every minute in twelve hour. 720 minutes, if you are interested. I found that a full third of these minutes have two numerals that are the same.

The above numeral combination is hardly chance, in other words. But even knowing that hasn’t changed my inclination to get excited over these tiny bits of co-incidence.

One of these days, I’ll record every single time I look at the time and see what I get. It feels like it’ll be 50%.

Do you have a relationship with co-incidences?

Lego: On the Wall

After a lot of thinking and a couple of trials, decided that pieces of base plate would work better than a whole base plate. A pair of kitchen scissors did the trick.

Pieces had to be three by seven studs to fit the velcro fastener.

These four 16 x 16 plates connected by various other plates make up the base for the first part of the scene I’m intending to display outside my unit door.

Of the three bits of green base plate at the top, only the outside two have the wall mounts. The middle one is me testing its joining capabilities. Two wall mounts together will hold 4.5 kilograms the packet tells me. Plenty for the purpose.

What I discovered a minute after I glued the velcro fasteners to the wall … the two fasteners—one gripping the other and the thickness of a bit of base plate—are nearer to two plates thick than one.

Meaning I’ll probably need to add a two by one plate to the back of all the joiner plates, for the scene to hang straight against the wall. That’s my next thing to do.

He’s got the boat stuck on a sandbank, right?

Cat Diary, 40

I’ve learned Come and Sit, both of them easy, but does the old woman think I am a dog?

She keeps saying “Look.”

I look everywhere she might send a kibble.

Have I told you I’ve graduated onto grain-free kibbles? That’s mornings, anyhow. She persists feeding me the lesser kibbles from lunch time onward.

Everytime I think I’ve trained the old woman to send a kibble into the direction where I’m looking she screws the lid back onto the jar and that’s that.

Here’s me looking everywhere …

We’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks, I might’ve cracked it 20% of the time and she keeps wanting me to look at her while she throws the kibble.

That’s so labour intensive. I want to be looking into the field when the kibble sails overhead and I can see where it lands.

She started to teach me Look because she kept finding kibbles where I hadn’t found them. What does she expect? That I should sniff them out??

I want to skip Look and go to Lie Down, should be easy to pick up a bunch of food mid morning.

Weird Angles

Sometimes an unusual angle of a familiar place throws out your or in this case my familiarity with a place.

This must be a view of the place where I live, in one of the three buildings in the background of this view. There are a lot of bits on it that I just don’t recognise.

The buildings in front are the back of the Harvey and Norman Plaza, I know that for sure.

Behind them as the crow flies … well I see them but I don’t recognise them. Not that I particularly love their architectural style—it’s a case of what can be done to box up 3 x 95 home units economically—I am interested in how the built environment can be situated in the landscape.

In this part of Brisbane, residential multi-storeys are being shoe-horned among areas of older style single family residences on a block of land, the many parks and, it seems to me, the many commercial and retail plazas.

The way inner Brisbane is transforming is totally different from the way the outer Sydney suburbs transformed during the time I lived in Berowra, in what were then the northern outskirts of Sydney.

I’m going to have to try to circle the so called village and photograph it from all angles.

For the photo above I stood in Carindale Park on the cricket ground somwhere. I can see I’ll even need to record where I stand.

Lego: The Supply Lama

Nothing to do with the new project, this set has been sitting around unopened for a couple of months.

I bought it originally because it looks like how I imagine the tiffanies in Earth Fall, thought i could maybe use it to illustrate various chapters.

Then opened the box and discovered the intricacy of the build. This will be one of those sets I’ll never take apart.

So last week had a surprise visit of the grandkids. The five year old went to the shelf and got down transparent bricks set she has been working her way through.

Leaving the almost eight year old a bit affronted, not being part of that far too easy a set for him. I said what about this one then? The supply lama that was.

He and his father built mightily and got to the end of bag three with the lama still just a forebody—very sturdy—and a box with open sides. Forgot to get that image.

After about a week of it sitting around, I thought I better start on it. Most of Bags 4 and 5 were the cladding. Struck me that I really had to trust the instruction booklet because most of the time I had no idea what I was putting together.

This for example …

Then the booklet gave me what the finished article should look like, and then where on the lama it should be installed.

A side neck piece, in case you’re wondering.

It wall be how to do the legs that I will be taking away with me, as they are quite elegant and I can see them on several other animals.

Constructing the head was fun, when you put the eyes on it suddenly has a character.

Moggy is a bit iffy about it. Like she’s saying, Do not come any nearer!

I haven’t put the Fortnite stickers on the hatches yet as I may still use the animal in a different story.