Austin, TEXAS, January 31, 2006 — I mean what would be the point? When do I get to a newspaper on the day it arrives? So, I skip over the horoscopes like they weren't there.

A friend got laid off the other day. In an email she sent out to let her friends know, she quoted her horoscope.

If anyone accepts change easily, it's you -- regardless of what type of change it happens to be, or how or when it's due to arrive. So being told that a major shift in your life's circumstances is just around the corner won't frighten you at all. You'll be exhilarated. If a family member doesn't greet the news with that same degree of enthusiasm, however, do what you can to help them adjust. Assure them that nothing but the best is en route. It's the truth.

Hmm, what timing.

So, I thought it was funny when for some odd reason my horoscope for today (I think it was, I read it a day later, of course and ripped it out without the date at the top of the page) read:

Who is rich? The one who enjoys what he has. For you to enjoy what you have, some organizing must take place — right now, you don't even know what you have. You need more shelving.

Well, they had me until more shelving. I definitely have enough shelving. Just too much useless crap.

Anyway, since I'd written about being rich for yesterday, I thought it was funny. And the shelf part, too.

Maybe you had to be there.