David Lerman wrote:

At 07:26 AM 8/19/97 -0500, ROBERT MORRISON wrote:

I just realized something while going over this morning's mail...

Please note the following items of ill fortune which have befallen
various among us this past week:

  <list of disasters and misfortunes>

Everyone be on your guard this week, there's a bad moon rising, and I
don't mean the Black Moon or an evil Tsukino Usagi.

  I really hope that this is just a statistical fluctuation.  It appears
that I will be leaving for Romania next week and enough problems occur even
ordinarily when working in Eastern Europe.

                                                                          dml

Dont you know bad things happen all at once.  Good and bad things happen
in groups.  Trust me, i'm waiting for a change in my luck, but there
doesnt seem to be one in the near future for me yet.  :)

--Eric