Since I've got the Blogger site open, I thought I may as well share a funny thing that happened to me a few days ago. I mean, I thought it was funny. My sense of humor can be a little off sometimes though, so you may not find it funny. Regardless, here's the story . . .

I was reading a book called The Third Pandemic about this pneumonia bug that mutates, develops immunity to any known antibiotic and proceeds to wipe out 80% of humanity. Your classic post-apocalyptic killer bug vs. humanity type of story. (Good book too, if you get a chance to read it. I've since finished it and I must say it was enjoyable. If you're really looking for a good "humanity gets wiped out by disease" story, I recommend The Stand by Stephen King. But I digress.)

Anyway, I had just finished reading a couple chapters of the book when I hopped on the computer to catch up on the news at CNN.com, and what do I see? A story about how the WHO predicts there will be a new strain of bird flu emerging from Asia in the next couple years for which there will be no shots, no treatment, and will kill millions of people.

Kind of wierded me out. Then I got a chuckle out of the coincidence of the two occurrences.

OK, it's not really funny at all reading about it. But I laughed at the time.