Threes

What is the significance of the number three?

I am sure we can all come to similar or wildly different conclusions regarding the significance of three. In the secular realm, books and movies have trilogies. There is the rare event of having triplets. There are even three legged stools commonly used while milking cows. You've probably heard the phrase "three's a crowd" or witnessed the opposite in the old T.V. show "Three's Company". Three is the first prime number and the fourth in the Fibonacci sequence. In astronomy there are three types of galaxies. Then there are also the common threes: the three stooges, three musketeers, Three Doors Down, three strikes in baseball, three point line in basketball... I could go on in this vein, but you get the idea.

The spiritual side has it's dealings with three as well. The Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, Christ rose on the third day, the Godhead, Church presidencies or bishoprics, etc..

For most of the world things tend to come singularly or in pairs. I have two arms, two legs, two eyes, yet I am a singular person. Why threes?!

You are probably wondering what is Wendi going on about. First of all this is Chad. Secondly, you may have noticed that Wendi hasn't updated her blog for a while. Let me tell you the reasons.

1. The AC power adapter to the computer overheated and fried itself. Since there was no power, the battery went dead while I was working on my thesis. I ordered a new power adapter but the company sent the wrong one. I had to wait another day for the correct one to arrive.

2. After getting the power adapter, my computer was hijacked. Some virus took over my computer. The virus even had this screen saver with bugs that came out and ate whatever was on the screen. I couldn't get rid of it. Luckily my computer has a PC recovery partition on the hard drive. I was able to get rid of the virus this way.

3. After getting rid of the virus, I thought I was in the clear. Wrong! Like I said, three is a very tricky, mysterious number. Just when you think you have it all figured out, it smacks you up the back of the head saying, "That was only two you nitwit!" Three decided to peek it's head around the corner in the form of letting none of my applications work. Sure I had a running operating system but nothing worked. I finally had to resort to the fact that I needed to reinstall Windows and all the other hundred thousand applications. Luckily I had backups of my thesis so I didn't need to worry about rewriting that.

So... There you have it! My computer trouble must be over! Once you conquered three, it is like letting the steam out of a pressure cooker. "Keep thinking that way," I tell myself. But... there is always that shadow lurking in some dark alleyway. His name is Murphy, not to be confused with his friend Finagle, who is equally as divisive. Maybe you know them?