Bald Eagle!!

Seriously...
This morning....it's snowing and cold and blustery. I'm at the corner of 5th and 23rd, which is a busy intersection. There is a big dark bird flying overhead, coming towards me. Man, it's COLD out this morning - -23, with a -31 windchill. So I'm watching this bird that is flying low in the cold snowy morning, thinking, "that idiot sea gull!" No, the wings are wrong. Hang on, it's black. A crow maybe? But it's BIG!! WAIT!!! For crying out loud - that's no seagull or crow - that's a BALD EAGLE!!! He must have got tangled and thought our 5th Ave was the river!!!! LOL And it wasn't a young one, it was a mature one - I could see the white head and tail feathers once he got closer and flew over me - so not a bird you would normally think of as getting lost! There I am, sitting at the lights, watching him come towards me from the west, and he flies directly over me, heading east. Cool!!!

Or maybe it was someone giving me a sign?

And then....
I'm just about at work. The car stalls. On the busy street! I crank the steering wheel (no power steering 'cause the car isn't running!) and manage to coast around the corner. I'm about 100 feet from my work. I try everything to get it going again. It's dead!! I call Dave immediately. 3 guys from my building push me out of the way of incoming traffic, I go into work, and Dave manages to get it going and leaves me the truck and takes the car. Guess I need a new battery. But how weird is that?? It started just fine. Ran just fine. And then died. BUT he was able to boost the dumb thing. Oh, what a MONDAY!!