Strange 24 Hours...

No idea if some planetary alignment or something is going on, but I've had an interesting 24 hours. Started around this time last night when we went out to dinner at Palomino's in Calgary. I heard about the place from a girl in my fiction writing class. Something about a performer that goes there a lot to do a trick where she takes special shots and breathes fire. That and the walls of the girls washroom is covered in graffiti...but it's cool because at least fifty different people have gone in there and written and replied to messages on the wall. Despite being in one of the shadiest parts of Calgary, the Palomino has awesome food and a cool atmosphere. I am definately going back.

Afterwards our little group went to go see the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra perform many of the tracks from the Star Trek movies and TV series. The show was amazing even though I don't know much about Star Trek at all. I knew enough to be interested of course, but overall I just enjoyed the music. The guys who play the holographic doctor and Q were hosting. During the intermission I randomly decided to sign up as a volunteer for the Calgary Comic Con. I hardly ever sign up for volunteers stuff. I usually just join in on other people's volunteer work. Then during the final piece of the night (the theme from Star Trek 2009) I came up with the an answer to 1 of about 15 questions that I have about my book and the plot. This was the first of many "epiphanies" I have had over the past day.

On the way home we saw something...strange. In two different rooms there was a series of flashing lights. They weren't in any sort of pattern, just random flashing over and over, pausing at different times and speeding up at others. The strange part was the rooms were in two separate buildings, and they were completely synchronized. They were both office buildings, both rooms had the lights off, and it was 10 in the evening. We guessed it might be two televisions on set to the same channels, but that didn't make any sense; no one would be up that late watching the same television show at the same time in two dark offices. Another suggestion was that it could be a screen saver, but the two computers would have to have the exact same flashy design. The computers also would have needed to go into screen saver mode at the EXACT same time. We ruled out electrical problems because they were in separate buildings. We finally decided that they were an elaborate string of flashing signals sent between buildings a pair of techno ninja assassins could communicate with each other.

Then the train was all weird today. In the morning my bus pass was checked three times. In Calgary we don't have ticket machines like in New York or London where you can't get onto the platform unless you run your ticket through it. Here the officers make random checks on the trains, so half the time you don't even need a ticket. It's still safe to have one, however, since the checks they make are REALLY random. If you want to get away with having no ticket you go at rush hour, and I personally think it's not worth it. Especially when random dudes start talking to you.

Which brings me to the random two old dudes that started talking to me on the train today. I was on the train working on some notes for my book while listening to music when this old guy sits beside me and starts talking to me. I can't remember what he asked me to start the conversation, but somehow we ended up talking about his book and how he was going to make a movie out of it. He seemed like a nice enough guy, but it figures that one time I'm actually busy on the train I get bothered. The moment that old dude leaves ANOTHER old guy comes and takes his place. I went back to work, and after a few minutes he starts complaining about the doors and how the train driver should be able to figure out which one is closing etc etc. He then talks to me about how boring Saskatoon is and when he moved to Calgary and his business and the weather in Calgary and mosquitoes in Manitoba. Then he left and I was finally able to figure out the rest of my stuff for WMRR.

The WMRR questions I have are all coming to me all of a sudden. Like a series of epiphanies. I don't know what it is, but questions I haven't been able to answer for five years are all being answered in the span of 24 hours. It's a little scary.