Bizarre Coincidence

Every once in a while something happens where you think, hey. . . that's just weird. On Friday I had one of those experiences.

I was reviewing some old video footage from 1988. I was thinking about converting some practice footage of my pal JR Hughson to DVD for him.

While watching the tape there was some footage of my first wife Cricket and I. We were answering a magic survey for a guy named Phillip Young, that we had met at a Midwest Magic Jubilee. At the convention, he handed out lots of these surveys explaining that he wanted to compile the information into a book. It was a very long survey with interesting questions that were not easy to answer in short. Realizing that I was not going to write out all those answers, I decided to do the survey as a video question and answer with Cricket asking me the questions. It's interesting to me how much she had learned and absorbed during our travels on the road performing.


Here we are doing our video survey interview

Anyways, back to Friday. Later in the day, out of the blue who pops up on the cyber radar but none other than Phillip Young sending me an instant message!! I said, "I was just thinking about you". He said, "Your kidding". Here's a guy I barely know, who I haven't spoken to in over 15 years and the same day that I watch part of the video survey, he contacts me. I think that's weird, strange. . . even magical.

We got caught up and talked about our lives. Evidently he had checked out my blog and decided to make contact. I'm glad he did and I encourage any other friends I'm out of contact with to look me up, my AIM Instant Mess. ID is tfrank8179

I've always thought. . . I don't have enough friends that I can afford to loose even one.

(funny that I say that, as I am in the process of evaluating a friendship I am considering cutting off) You live and learn, grow and mature.