It’s Friday the 13th. Let’s count to see how many freaky things happen today.

1. Plane crashes in Buffalo, NY. 49 dead. (updated 1:00am)
2. Tina loses her lit cigarette in her van. It is unclear how such a thing is possible. (updated 8:35am)
3. For the first time since we started going there 4 months ago, there is no one in line at the Esso Tim Horton’s at Don Mills/Sheppard. Similarly, the roads are abnormally traffic free. (updated 8:36am)
4. The Unix time 1234567890 falls on this day. (updated 8:37am)
5. Tina has deduced that the lost cigarette was in her hood due to a hole with burn marks. Location of the cigarette butt is still unknown. (updated 8:51am)
6. A Sept11 widower died in the Buffalo plane crash. She was travelling to celebrate her dead husband’s 58th birthday. (update 10:01am)
7. Two teens were pushed on to the TTC subway tracks. Why? Because it’s Friday the 13th. (updated 9:39pm)
8. Paradoxical title? YES! That’s what this day will do to a writer. (updated 9:47pm)
9. Microsoft learns from its mistakes. This is weird. (updated 10:04pm)
10. Stephen Harper tells a lie to save face. Oh wait, that’s not strange at all. (updated 11:38pm)

UPDATE: The article in #8 used to be titled “Leading economists agree that leading economists are wrong.”