Hachi Osm Acht.

[avias]

I've always had an inexplicable attatchment to the number 8. It's one of those things that seem to develop almost randomly during childhood. Just like how red's always unquestionably been my favorite color, 8 was always unquestionably my favorite number. (I'm less firm on letters, although I do tend to favor names that start with A.) It's not just because I was born in August, on the 13, although that is part of why 13 has always been my second favorite number (the other part being my natural tendency towards perverseness). I've just always had this ingrained feeling that 8 was important in some significant way, although I've never really been able to explain how or why. It's one of those things that just is.

So I'm gonna buy some lotto tickets this morning. Nothing's gonna come of it, because I'm never gonna have that kind of luck, but what the hell, eh? This weird compulsion's gotta be good for something.