"...the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before."

I woke up at about 5am thanks to my brother suffering an unusually loud sneezing fit. Unable to get back to sleep, I felt the impulse to pull out my Bible, as I often do when needing some comfort (and with the computer situation, I needed it). So I opened it randomly and found myself at the end of Job. For the Biblically unknowledgable, the book of Job is about a godly man who, without doing anything to deserve it, loses everything and begins to question God's justice. Nonetheless, when God confronts him over the issue, Job admits he can't hope to understand God's plan and humbles himself. And the book ends with God rewarding Job's humility, using the loss to give him even more. Those last few chapters were the part I had opened to.

After that, I was feeling ready to doze off again and, sure enough, did within about ten minutes (get your jokes about the interest level of the Bible out now). I didn't mention my choice of morning reading to anyone.

Fast-forward to evening: Dad talks to Ron (the friend I mentioned last entry) about the condition of my computer ...and begins discussing buying me a whole new set of hardware as long as I'm starting over. Something that can run Win XP and then some ("then some" being Illustrator CS, which I got for Christmas but could only run on Dad's machine).

There are times when claiming "coincidence" just fails to be convincing anymore.