Numerology

My favorite number is 5; has been since…, well for as long as I can remember, and for no particular reason that I can recall. 25 is also a nice number, being 5 squared. I quite like 49 too, being just shy of the half century (and one vote short of a tie in the Senate). It’s also 7 squared. I sometimes feel sorry for seven. It’s almost a big number like 8 and 9 but just not quite there yet. That being said, I don’t let this rule my life; or even influence it that I know of. I was worried, as most of us were, when oil passed $49 a barrel, and will be unhappier still when petrol reaches $5 a gallon. I doubt that my 50th birthday is going to be a life changing watershed any more than my 5th was, though the latter definitely seems further away. And I doubt it will come with a chocolate cake in the shape of a train.