Friday, November 11, 2011

the number 11

The last two digits of my parents birth years add up to 11.

One of their birthdays (MM+DD) adds up to 11.

My parents ages when I was born add up to 11.

I was born on Nov. 11
(The 11th day of the 11th month)

...at 12:13 p.m., which means there were 11 hours and 47 minutes left in the day,
(4 + 7 = 11)

...at which time my parents had been married for six years and five months.
(6 + 5 = 11)

My immediate family's first names have 5, 3, and 3 letters.
(11 total)

My husband's first and last names contain 11 letters. His birthday (DD-MM) also adds up to 11.

My signature and legal name (First, Middle Initial, Last) adds up to 11 letters.

In Scrabble, my last name is worth 11 points.

The digits in the address of my childhood home are 4-3-4-0.
(4 + 3 + 4 + 0 = 11)

That was in a town whose name has 11 letters and whose ZIP code adds up to 11.

I moved to a different town in high school. The ZIP code and the digits in our house number there add up to 11.

My graduation years ('YY) add up to 11.

The digits in my longtime (former) U.S. cell phone number were 1-1-3-3-2-6-2-7-4-2-7.
(Total = 38 and 3 + 8 = 11)

My U.S. driver's license at one point expired on 11/11/11.

The number of what was briefly my home in Arizona was 1514.
(1 + 5 + 1 + 4 = 11)

The ticket to the only Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game I've attended (which I picked at random from the top of a pile in passing) was for Row 11, Seat 11.

After Arizona, I moved to a different town containing 11 letters where the ZIP code also adds up to ...11.

My teaching job in Taiwan required me to clock in at two locations throughout the week. One of those was called Da Yung; the other was Wu Rih.
(11 letters)

Where might you guess I had to sign to obtain my Taiwanese driver's license?
(Line 11 for the 11th applicant of the day. You can't make this stuff up.)

I had a job for several years working in an office building ... on the 11th floor.

And the saga continues ...


Note: Yes, I've altered the time and date on this post. The rest is true.