Regarding the tendency of random events to cluster:

[flamingweasel]

So walking home I got a phone call; the car's been found, but no one knows what condition it's in other than "driveable." I'll be driving up to Seattle tomorrow to see what that means, if anything's left in the trunk, etc.

Then, just as we got home I got a call from the apartment we really liked saying that we got the place. Woo!