I’m not very religious. But I found this to be rather entertaining – if not ironically coincidental. I was in the car on Friday night, driving into the Yunk. We all knew the Pope was on his deathbed, and, at about 1:00 PM, false reports had leaked out that he had died. It was all just a matter of waiting from that point on. Everyone knew he would die that night or this weekend.

In the car, I hear on KYW1060, an all-news, all-the-time radio station, “Tonight, April 1st, the winning lottery numbers are 6… 6… 6…”

666!? 666 — the well-known “sign” for the devil! Pope John Paul II died Saturday April 2, 2005 at 9:37 pm GMT (2:37 pm EST). In the very last PA lottery results before he died, Satan rears his ugly face.

I have to admit, even I got a little bit goose-pimply at the ludicrous irony. I called up my sister Sara, the soon-to-be Master of Divinity from Harvard University. I love weird coincidental stuff like that: the pope dies, and Satan spreads a little Lottery Love. Check it out for yourself, if you do not believe me (click photo to enlarge):

On an unrelated note, my room flooded again, and I have to stay in to clean it out. So pissed. So when do I sign the bid for this new house?