{"id":537,"date":"2002-09-11T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-11T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2002-09-11T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-11T17:30:00","slug":"blessed-definitely-blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/11\/blessed-definitely-blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed, definitely blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First task of the morning was to call the Bus Company to tell them about my wallet. They in turn told be that the wallet <b>had been turned into them<\/b> I just got in from picking up my wallet.<\/p>\n<p><i>Now is where you sit down<\/i><br \/>\n<font SIZE=\"2\"><b>All the cash was left in the wallet, in tact<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Except for the need to wait a week for my plastic to be replaced&#8230;. All is well.<\/p>\n<p>Thank-yous toy everyone who IM&#8217;ed, mesaged, emailed, replied in LJ and called in support&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to &#8220;D&#8221; who called last night (I commented on this yesterday)<br \/>\nSpecial thanks to my dear Thelemic Littermate <a href=\"http:\/\/kaote.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">kaote<\/a> who sent me the sigil of Andromalius, the goetic spirit of returning that which has been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, in a moment of desperate &#8216;anything that would help&#8217;, I traced his sigil in the air and did a ritual in the hopes that if my wallet was stolen it would be returned, the their aptly punished, and if merely lost the wallet returned, and the finder justly rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>So much juju on sie who returned my wallet.<\/p>\n<p>BTW: Anyone know the proper way to thank and dismiss a goetic sprit? <\/p>\n<p>The humour in all this was when I reported it to the police in Santa Monica and asked what the odds of recovery was the echange went like this:<br \/>\nMe: I&#8217;m going to assume &#8220;Blue Moon&#8221; is being viciously optomistic.<br \/>\nShe: Would you settle for my assurance that you&#8217;ll at least be a statistic?<br \/>\nMe: So you&#8217;re advising prayer, hope, and maybe exploration into the ritual occult?<br \/>\nShe: That would probably accomplish the most.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right folks. I got the Police to agree that ritual occult would help get my wallet back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it did&#8230;maybe I was just f*$^ing lucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless. In my book. 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