Part I: OMENS, COSMIC CLUES and DENIAL
The millennium started out a big bust as far as I was concerned. Y2K was a joke, and the world didn't come to an end. Winter's snow covered the area, and I went out pinholin' and ended up with a bad case of the flu; so much for the flu shot protecting me from getting the flu! It was a good while before I went out pinholin' again, and I really didn't get many good images until it started to warm up. I was in a slump but knew that Spring would get me going again.
I noticed a small lump on my neck after the bout with the flu and really didn't bother with it until springtime just before going on vacation to the beach. So I went to the doctor and he wanted to cut the darn thing out right away, but I wanted to go on vacation first and put the surgery off until we got back. But in the back of my mind I was concerned that it might be cancer because I'd had it before.
I took a pinhole image of myself while sitting in my car waiting out a thundershower. And when I got the image back I was surprised to see that I wasn't in the image; just clothing with a person's shape sitting behind the steering wheel. Well that image really freaked me out. I thought it was an omen, and asked a few pinholers what they thought. Nobody saw what I did, and I just forgot about it for a while.