ser·en·dip·i·ty n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties

  1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
  2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
  3. An instance of making such a discovery.

syn·chro·nic·i·ty n. pl. syn·chro·nic·i·ties

  1. The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
  2. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality

I met on IRC a few years back. Then, she worked for a major studio/company. Since that time, she has worked for a different studio and is now working for PBS. A couple of years ago, she sent me a sketch of one of her then-studio’s characters; I still have that sketch. She was also working on artwork of her own and that it was verra cool stuff, in my opinion. Unfortunately, I lost contact with each other.

Fast forward a year-and-a-half. I had been thinking of getting in touch with RedTango for a while, but had been distracted by a number of things. I went to my mailbox this evening and in the Winter 2001 issue of the bLink newsletter/magazine, there it was: An interview with RedTango. Amazing! There was even information about her new (to me) website, redtango.com and her artwork, which is featured on that site. As I said this morning: “Surely, Providence smiles down upon us!”

Also…

One of my best friends back home is finishing up his music education degree this year; he is going to be a band director. Between my mother, him, Angie, and a few friends of the family, I do not lack for musical talent close at hand, relatively speaking. He came online tonight to take a break from his class work and told me of a marching band drill that he was working on: a Sting-themed work. He had five songs that he intended to use, but could not think of the name of one of the songs. All that he remembered of it was that it was an up-tempo song by The Police. I mentioned Synchronicity I and Synchronicity II as the songs whose names eluded him. He said that he had checked Synchronicity I, and that it was not the one, but he would listen to Synchronicity II… and then he logged off to get back to his work. He logged on a short while later to tell me that the song in question was in fact Synchronicity II, which also helped to confirm my title of “Keeper of Useless Pop Culture Trivia.”

And in weather news…

It didn’t snow today! It was windy and overcast, but there was no new precipitation. I had something of an epiphany also: Living in a valley bordered by two mountain ranges can give one a sort of claustrophobic feeling on overcast days with low clouds. This is not to say that it is an overwhelming sense of being closed in; it’s simply… different than living in a relatively flat and definitely non-mountainous part of the country. Taking a look at The Weather Channel‘s site, it looks like we will have new powder tomorrow. In fact, looking at the local map, it looks like the leading edge of the storm front is over SLC now. Yay. Oh well, at least the forecast for the weekend looks decent (translation: “Snow-free”).

Peace.