Horoscopes

I opened the paper the other day, and my horoscope said "If you don't have to go to work today, stay home." That's pretty ominous, I think. That's pretty much telling you that you are going to have a crappy day, before you even turn on the coffee pot!

Yes, I am an intelligent person. Or at least that's what the IQ tests tell me. And I know that horoscopes don't 'predict' your future. And that horoscopes usually are obscure and vague enough that you can make whatever happens to you fit the 'prediction'. I know all this. And yet...

That's pretty darn clear language. Pretty specific: stay home, because you're going to have to go to a staff meeting which will suck so bad that it will open a hole in the Space-Time continuum and last FOUR HUNDRED YEARS!!!!!

Okay, it wasn't that long. But it was close. It did bring to mind a certain book I read once...