These are very interesting coincidences, Z-man. Let me take this opportunity to suggest a theory about the true nature of the internet. What happened here is that a connection occured between facts of your real life and thoughts that you have shared on internet. This suggest that internet is more than just a network of interconnected computers: the informations it carries gives it a higher dimension, just like a brain is more than interconnected neurones, but is where the soul manifests itself.
And just like the soul is our connection to higher dimensions, internet may play a similar role: internet is the recipient of all thoughts, and it may have reached a critical mass such that these thoughts are now able to permeate through our 3-D world. This is the 3-D to 4-D interconnection , there is no more difference, and...Arrrhhggh....the black helicopter...they are coming...!
Aurel