Lucky or Unlucky?

This weekend is the Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspurs (yeah, 2 English teams).  I read an article the other day about Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool’s manager, who has managed to not win the last 6 finals he’s been in.  When asked if he thought he was unlucky and hoped number 7 would be lucky for him, his response was, if you look at it not as having lost 6 finals, but of being the best coach over the last decade to win semifinals to get to the finals, things look very different.  Well, this week I can’t figure out whether I’m lucky or unlucky.

Those of you who follow the blog may recall that during last Fall’s grand adventure, I woke up even earlier than normal one morning to order a book by Bruce Percy from our campsite at Bryce National Park.  While the sales window opened up earlier than the notification e-mail said it would, which meant that I couldn’t get a copy of the book with all 3 available prints as I’d liked, we did nab a copy of his Altiplano book with a very lovely print.

Each of his books had sold out quickly so we felt very fortunate to have nabbed a copy because a few days later, the slip-cased versions were sold out.

So while at work a couple of weeks ago an e-mail popped into my in-box from Bruce with the subject line, “Altiplano Book Scarce Remaining Copies.”   I’d been mentally blocked on the brief I was writing, so, despite the fact that we have our copy, I decided to open my e-mail to check it out.

I read through the e-mail (he’d found several copies stashed away that he’d forgotten about and found while doing spring cleaning) and Lo and Behold! there was a “Stop the Presses” heading.  He’d also found a copies of his Iceland book.  I stopped reading immediately, went to his website and bought a copy.  It arrived today!

You’re probably sitting there asking yourself, “So why the Unlucky in the title?”

Well, in preparing to write this blog post (Which was then titled “Lucky Guy” in my mind), I went back to the e-mail Bruce had sent . . . and read all the way through it.  He found not only copies of the Iceland book, but also of his first hardback book, The Art of Adventure.

Idiot me.  I could have had both books but didn’t bother to read the entire e-mail!

So, lucky or unlucky?