Day 31: Hot or Goatee?

On monday night instead of shaving off my weekend stubble I thought I would leave a goatee shaped bit of growth. It is still intact today, but I will be flying home for the weekend today so whether it will still be in place on my return next Tuesday is another matter. Al may have missed a once in a lifetime oportunity.

I saw the film Magnolia earlier in the week. I thought it almost qualifies as a film that would change your life, but not quite. I didn't really understand what was going on at the end. But I had a quick look on imdb and after reading the discussion section I realised that I now did understand and yes it probably is a film that could change ones life (if you let it).

One of the themes of the film was coincidence and it reminded me of when I used to work in Sweden. I flew via Brussels and I used to notice a distinctive white building near the runway as the plane took off for Arlanda. I thought the building might be the Brussels office of Sun Microsystems as it loked very similar to their building near Stockholm. Anyway, a few years later I got a contract based in Brussels working for Sun. On my first day I took a taxi to their Brussels office, but it wasn't the building I had previously noticed and it looked nothing like their building near Stockholm either. I was informed that I would be working on a client site near the airport and low and behold it turned out that their client had the building I used to notice when I took off for Sweden each monday morning and I spent the next 9 months working in that very building.