I just had a REALLY freaky thing happen... I'm just gonna post about it, as it happened, and you decide.
Let's rewind an hour ago.
It's 1:00AM and I'm thinking about heading off to bed but I remember I was planning on taking my "library" of current books back to my office. I decide I better do it now because I'll forget in the morning. I grab a huge stack from my home office and head to my car. On the way downstairs I remember a stash of books I haven't gotten to since buying at TechEd 2007 that are in the garage. I find the stash and put them with the rest and then I find yet another stash of books I bought after TechEd because I was so hyped on getting productive. Among this stash is one book in particular that I had forgotten all about. I'd read the first chapter, liked it, but got distracted. I carry it with me back upstairs and set it on the desk in front of me. I'm intent on wrapping up things and heading to bed when twhirl pops up with this:
I click the link (did I mention I'm easily distracted) and find myself at Jeffery Palermo's Links for today.
In that list of links I see a link titled Chicken Dance tagged "agile boot". Since I'm hoping to attend Jeffery Palermo's Agile Boot Camp week after next, I visit the link. While reading Michael Palermo's (no relation I don't think) post about Jott.com he mentions GTD. The acronym just isn't ringing for me (it IS about 2AM after all) so I click _that_ link (can you say bunny trail).
Which leads me to his post about the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Now the acronym rings a bell and so does the picture I'm looking at on my screen:
It just also happens to be what I see when I glance down at the book in front of me that I bought over a year ago that has been stuck away in my garage, forgotten, until about an hour ago...
"You know what's funny? My pickle started out in a jar, and now it's in one again! It's like a pun or something" - Patrick Star, SpongeBob SquarePants
Omen? Sign? Freaky? I think it's all 3 myself and I'm going to read the book cover to cover tomorrow just in case!