Today is Thursday August 1st, 2013 which is a Ji Hai or Yin Earth Pig day in the Chinese Almanac. Given that this is the year of the snake one would expect obstacles to travel. Coincidentally(?) I was taking my car in for maintenance that morning when the alternator died leaving my car stranded in the right hand turn lane of a big intersection in the south east area of Seattle. The wheels would not turn at all and it required a special towing set up to move it to the shop.

Later that morning I took my daughter shopping using my husband’s car and (coincidentally?) ended up stuck in traffic while traveling south east-ish. The cause of the back up was a collision between two semi trucks.