Fate foretold by my Galactic Horoscope, Randomly Fortuitous, or an Act of God?

This morning I was late to work.

To be more specific I was late to work because I left later than usual, because I woke up later than planned, because my alarm didn’t go off, because my mobile phone was powered down, because the battery had died, because stuff like that can sometimes happens, right. But why?

Lately my phone battery life has been getting shorter and shorter. But last night when I went to sleep it had at least 25-30% battery life remaining (just switched over to battery code level ‘orange’) – which is actually a pretty typical night-time scenario. It has often proven to be able to stay powered all night when left alone at 20-30% battery life. So why then did it fail me last night/this morning?  

This is where the mind starts getting all big picture and “what’s it all mean” on your arse.  

Is that just a lucky/unlucky random event?

Was I Supposed to be late for work?

Or more specifically was I supposed to be driving to work later than usual?

Is this the handiwork of God and if so is he protecting me from something?

Would I have gotten into an automobile accident had I left at the ‘usual’ time?

And why is my head hurting now? J

Do any of you ever think in such a way when something unscheduled or slightly out of the ordinary happens?

Do you put it down to random chance, or are you more likely to thank God for interfering with your life, even though the positive outcome is not often blatantly apparent?  

I'm curious to know

P.S. while your thinking about it - check out the top video in the YouTube videobar to the right :)

Driving Thought for the Day

Why is it when someone is walking down the aisle handling a shopping trolley or a pram and someone else gets in the way it’s a usually polite “excuse me” (with the except of my friend the Wal-Mart lady), whereas putting the same person behind the wheel of a car and moving the scenario to the roadway suddenly turns into “F*** you!”?

Seriously, how much does getting behind the wheel of a car change a person’s attitude or demeanor?   

Super Bowl Sunday Spectacular ... and that

Well the Super-hyper-awesome-turbo-max-world-Bowl is done and dusted for another year and it must be said it was an interesting game with the deserving team crowned World Champions (that’s right somehow the winner of the “National” Football League in somehow henceforth known as the ‘World’ champion’) but enough about the game – how good were the Superbowl Ads this year!!

Big thumbs up for the creative and funny Ads from Pepsi Max, Snickers, Volkswagen, and – in my opinion – the Super Bowl Ad World Champions … Doritos. In case you missed any of them (or happen to live in another country where such Ads are not broadcast) here are some of the best:

Volkswagen 'The Force':

Snickers 'You're not you when your hungry':

 

Pepsi Max 'First Date':

Bridgestone 'Reply All':

Doritos 'House Sitting':

And the Winner of Super bowl 2011 Advertising (in my opinion) is Doritos 'Office':

This last Ad may not have been as funny and clever as what you just saw, but it does feature something I am personally quite familiar with which makes it one of the “oh man I know that place, I’ve been there” TV situations. It was filmed at the local Rotolo Chevrolet here in Fontana only a few blocks from work and where I get my Commodore dressed in Pontiac’s clothing serviced. Note the stunning snow capped mountains in the background. That’s real So Cal snow people.

So well done to the Green Bay Packers and their star quarterback and my fantasy football hero Aaron Rogers and congratulations to Doritos, the un disputed Super Ad World Champions J